“Olabode Shoniregun’s application to stay in UK was rejected last summer – but he has still received free accommodation and state support.
He was put up in migrant hotels before his claim was rejected last summer. However, he has not been removed from the UK, and subsequently he was allowed to claim thousands of pounds in accommodation, food and state support.
The case of Olabode Shoniregun, 27, shows the farcical nature of the British asylum system, where people from safe countries are allowed to lodge claims and benefit from taxpayer support.
Even if their asylum claims are rejected, it is months before they are dealt with by Border Force.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Shoniregun said: “The taxpayers are paying for me to be here, and I want to say thank you. I’m grateful for that.”
Last November, he was thrown out of his social housing after behaving aggressively towards staff. Even though the police were called, he was not referred to Border Force as an illegal immigrant.”
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>A US asylum seeker has been living in Britain with free accommodation and benefits for more than a year in the first case of its kind.
>The man, from Las Vegas, fled to the UK claiming he was being persecuted because he is black, Jewish and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – the Mormon Church.
>He was put up in migrant hotels before his claim was rejected last summer. However, he has not been removed from the UK, and subsequently he was allowed to claim thousands of pounds in accommodation, food and state support.
>The case of Olabode Shoniregun, 27, shows the farcical nature of the British asylum system, where people from safe countries are allowed to lodge claims and benefit from taxpayer support.
>Even if their asylum claims are rejected, it is months before they are dealt with by Border Force.
>The university-educated American “refugee” had accepted £1,500 and a flight home to Las Vegas before Christmas but is now rough sleeping at a McDonald’s outlet in north London, and at the Barbican Centre in the City, after being deemed unfit to fly.
>It is the latest debacle in a 14-month saga that has seen the illegal immigrant live in a succession of migrant hotels.
I do wonder what would happen if this was the other way round, and a Brit turned up in Las Vegas and claimed asylum. Would they be given 14 months bed and board? Because I really could do with a holiday
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“Olabode Shoniregun’s application to stay in UK was rejected last summer – but he has still received free accommodation and state support.
He was put up in migrant hotels before his claim was rejected last summer. However, he has not been removed from the UK, and subsequently he was allowed to claim thousands of pounds in accommodation, food and state support.
The case of Olabode Shoniregun, 27, shows the farcical nature of the British asylum system, where people from safe countries are allowed to lodge claims and benefit from taxpayer support.
Even if their asylum claims are rejected, it is months before they are dealt with by Border Force.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Shoniregun said: “The taxpayers are paying for me to be here, and I want to say thank you. I’m grateful for that.”
Last November, he was thrown out of his social housing after behaving aggressively towards staff. Even though the police were called, he was not referred to Border Force as an illegal immigrant.”
>A US asylum seeker has been living in Britain with free accommodation and benefits for more than a year in the first case of its kind.
>The man, from Las Vegas, fled to the UK claiming he was being persecuted because he is black, Jewish and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – the Mormon Church.
>He was put up in migrant hotels before his claim was rejected last summer. However, he has not been removed from the UK, and subsequently he was allowed to claim thousands of pounds in accommodation, food and state support.
>The case of Olabode Shoniregun, 27, shows the farcical nature of the British asylum system, where people from safe countries are allowed to lodge claims and benefit from taxpayer support.
>Even if their asylum claims are rejected, it is months before they are dealt with by Border Force.
>The university-educated American “refugee” had accepted £1,500 and a flight home to Las Vegas before Christmas but is now rough sleeping at a McDonald’s outlet in north London, and at the Barbican Centre in the City, after being deemed unfit to fly.
>It is the latest debacle in a 14-month saga that has seen the illegal immigrant live in a succession of migrant hotels.
I do wonder what would happen if this was the other way round, and a Brit turned up in Las Vegas and claimed asylum. Would they be given 14 months bed and board? Because I really could do with a holiday