A father with a newborn baby and a mother with two children are among the asylum seekers made homeless by the Home Office after it wrongly withdrew their claims, it can be revealed.
The families were ordered to leave their accommodation and had financial support cut off for failing to attend interviews that they had not received invitations for because of the Home Office’s own errors.
The department has been ordered to reconsider the cases after the asylum seekers won a legal challenge at the first-tier tribunal, alongside two men from Iraq and Sudan, while 13 similar cases are yet to be heard.
The claimants are among more than 14,000 asylum seekers who had claims withdrawn without consent during a frenzied drive to meet Rishi Sunak’s pledge that he would clear the “legacy backlog” by the end of 2023.