BIOT Migrants to come to the UK

A group of Tamil migrants who have been stranded on Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory (“BIOT”) for three years will be admitted to the UK, it has been announced. This follows extensive litigation in the Administrative Court in London and well as the BIOT Supreme Court and Court of Appeal (see here, here, here, here and here). The government had previously offered some of the migrants a transfer to Romania where they would have been held in a UNHCR transit centre for up to 6 months, but the new decision means that the migrants will be able to move directly to the UK.

Ben Jaffey KC, Natasha Simonsen and Drishti Suri represent a group of the migrants, instructed by Leigh Day.