"No 10 has claimed the deal is the strongest that Vietnam's government has agreed with another country on migration, and could result in four times as many Vietnamese nationals with no ground to stay in Britain being returned. It will reduce the time for processing migrants' documents by 75% for cases with supporting evidence and eventually by almost 90% by cutting through red tape, a statement from Downing Street said."
"Vietnamese people were the largest single cohort of small boats arrivals in the first three months of 2024, and the fourth largest across the whole of last year. Statistics from April 2024 showed Vietnamese nationals made up 20% of all small boat arrivals, a 10-fold increase compared with the same period in the previous year. Home Office data also shows that 599 Vietnamese people were referred to the national referral mechanism as potential modern slavery victims between April and June this year the second-highest foreign nationality after Eritreans."
An agreement between the UK and Vietnam will fast-track deportation of Vietnamese nationals who arrive in the UK by irregular means. A sharp rise in small-boat and lorry arrivals produced Vietnamese as the largest single cohort in early 2024, comprising 20% of small-boat arrivals in April 2024 and a tenfold increase year-on-year. The agreement aims to increase returns up to fourfold by cutting red tape and reducing document-processing times by 75% initially and almost 90% eventually. Measures include biometric data sharing, accelerated issuance of documents, and intensified cooperation to dismantle immigration crime networks. High referrals to the national referral mechanism as potential modern-slavery victims were recorded.
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