Originally Posted by
BA318
Its off topic but there are plenty of legal ways. Asylum is designed to provide safety not get you to your dream location. If you live in Afghanistan, Iran or Syria and want to come to the UK you apply the same as if an American or Chinese person wanted to move to the UK.
Work visa routes, on the basis of family or marriage, study visa etc. There are options. There are usually also specific relocation schemes for certain conflicts or areas.
By all means Uk immigration is a complete mess and the Home Office is terrible but there are legal avenues that can be used.
Given the bad
PR any airline will get operating this flight and the Gov’s desire to make it happen I would imagine it’s a healthy paying contract. Although don’t be surprised if state owned Rwandair operate it.
Even for the extreme example of Afghanistan, where there is a conflict specific scheme, it's not possible to apply 'in country'. The courts delivered a judgement on that specific point and related primarily to judges, several of them with the added risk Taliban wise of being female:
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/...ent-090622.pdf
The government and it's mouthpieces, we had Peter Bone(head) MP on the radio this morning, speak of legal routes and 'queue jumping' but in practice if you're a Sudanese who has made it to Calais there is no safe/legal route for you to join relatives in the UK. Even the so called Dubbs route (after Lord Dubbs who arrived in the UK via Kindertransport) for unaccompanied minors was ignored and then closed off.
The quickest way to pull the rug from under those running smuggling operations is to open an office in Calais where those with legitimate connections to the UK can apply to come here.