The 25-page document advises migrants on how to masquerade as members of a persecuted tribe from Kuwait, according to reports.
Migrants have been given answers to interview questions to ensure their asylum status is granted (Image: Getty)
A step-by-step “cheat” sheet on how to 100% guarantee being granted asylum in the UK is circulating online, according to reports. The Arabic guide, thought to be devised by people smugglers, instructs migrants to masquerade as members of the persecuted Bidoon tribe from Kuwait, whose lack of citizenship means they face systemic discrimination. The 25-page document provides extensive background information about the stateless individuals, including answers to interview questions to ensure safe passage is granted, The Sun reports.
One example reads: “I was arrested for a period of [insert duration] in the State Security building in South Surra, I was imprisoned in a small room, and I was tortured with beating and humiliation, and I was interrogated.”
The guide, uncovered by Reform UK activist Mitchell Durdin on the social media platform Telegram, also advises asylum hopefuls to claim they were only released after signing a form accusing them of insulting the head of the Kuwait government, putting them in a perilous position on home soil.
Shabana Mahmood announced ambitious plans to reform the migration system this month (Image: Getty)
Between the years ending in June 2021 and 2025, over 5,000 people from Kuwait applied for asylum in the UK, with 2,440 claims in the 12 months to this June alone.
It comes after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood laid out sweeping reforms to the immigration system in a bid to reduce the UK’s attractiveness to asylum seekers and streamline efforts to remove people with no right to be in the country.
She said: “While some are genuine refugees, others are economic migrants, seeking to take advantage of the asylum system. Even amongst those who are genuine refugees, economic incentives are at play.
“Instead of stopping at the first safe country, even genuine refugees are searching for the most attractive place to seek refuge, many now ‘asylum shop’ their way across the continent, in search of the most attractive place to seek refuge.”
While the measures have been rolled out partially in response to an increase in small boat arrivals, they also mark a pivot to a more hard-line rhetoric on migration, widely interpreted as an attempt to regain support lost to Nigel Farage‘s Reform UK party.
Responses to Ms Mahmood’s announcement have been mixed, however, with backbenchers and left-leaning political rivals dubbing the policy shift “inhumane” while those on the right suggest it does not go far enough.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said “any plan that doesn’t include leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a necessary step is wasting time we don’t have”.
She added: “Just like their plan to smash the gangs, or the ‘one in, one out’ policy, it is time wasting, and it is doomed to fail because of lawfare.”
