Fake Eritrean Asylum Seekers Convince UK
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•Revealed: Fake asylum seekers are conning their way into Britain
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MailOnline found network of thousands sharing huge swathes of training material to convince case officers they are from Eritrea .
Despite being a country of just 3.6million , Eritreans have made up the fourth -largest group of asylum seekers in the UK in the last three years .
One Ethiopian migrant, Michaele Abraha , an Uber driver living in London , brags of how he was given asylum in UK by pretending to be Eritrean .
He hosts weekly TikTok sessions teaching Ethiopians how to file fake asylum claims.
Between 2018 and 2024 , asylum was granted to 5,222 people claiming to be from Eritrea .
That was more than the 4,882 figures for Syrians , despite Syria having a population of around 22.1million .
Both countries have the highest success rates, with 99 per cent of applications granted.
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