Newcastle refugee granted asylum says government citizenship plan ‘wrong’
Mr Alali said Newcastle was his home and spoke of his admiration for those who live there.
“It’s the people, I can’t describe it,” he said, adding: “If you live in this place, you have friends, you start a life… then you start having the feeling of belonging.”
He said the new rules had compromised that feeling, adding: “No matter how long I stay here… at the end of the day they [the Home Office] might just ask me to leave.”
The Home Office said its policy provided for citizenship applications to be granted depending on “mitigating circumstances”.
This could include “positive factors” such as the contribution a person has made to society, a spokesperson said.
Children would be considered “sympathetically”, they added.
Separately, Labour’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which scraps the Tory Rwanda plan and boosts police powers against smugglers, has cleared its first vote in the House of Commons.
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