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h2o in reply to @The_Seldom_Killer

The policy is that asylum seekers must seek asylum in the country where they first reach Europe. He thought that, having been a translator for the British, the UK might help him instead of applying that rule dogmatically. The UK applied the rule dogmatically.

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spindrift in reply to @h2o

The policy is that asylum seekers must seek asylum in the country
where they first reach Europe.

No. No such rule.

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h2o in reply to @spindrift

I said it was a policy, not a rule. But, yes, I oversimplified.

The recast Dublin Regulation establishes a hierarchy of criteria for identifying the Member State responsible for the examination of an asylum claim in Europe. This is predominantly on the basis of family links followed by responsibility assigned on the basis of the State through which the asylum seeker first entered, or the State responsible for their entry into the territory of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

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