Gay asylum seekers feeling increased pressure to prove sexuality, say experts

assessment of changes to the Canada Border UK has led immigrants fleeing persecution to show even films themselves having sex

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never go to extremes to satisfy the demands of immigration officials to prove their sexual identity for fear of being returned to a country where they face persecution.

At a conference this week to deliver the bar, S Chelvan, a lawyer specializing in asylum and collaborates with the UK Border Agency (UKBA), indicating the extraordinary methods to use private - including themselves having sex shoot - to justify asylum

UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG), supporting up to 1000 requests per year, according to official guidelines are modified considerably improved, but that lead to an escalation of the sex of individual applicants.

changes introduced by UKBA after a judgment of the Supreme Court in 2010 changed history, the focus of formal assessments to determine if the applicants are in fact lesbian or gay, according to experts at the immigration.

Prior to 2010, asylum seekers because they were in danger if he returned to the States where homosexuality is illegal - such as Iran, Uganda and Cameroon - permission denied mainly on the basis that they could be totally discreet.

negatives are now more often on the basis that the plaintiffs are not, or can not prove they are gays, lesbians and transgender Chelvan said, explaining that the new approach has strange consequences and inhuman.

"I know at least two cases in the past six weeks during which they were asylum seekers themselves to prove they are shooting gays. Now is to show if you are gay or lesbian. "

A Ugandan woman who has finally received temporary residence permit in the UK, but wishes to remain anonymous, told the Guardian: "The UKBA officials wanted to prove that I was a lesbian, but would not tell me how I can. "

The woman, who has spent months in detention awaiting deportation Yarlswood said copies of a Ugandan newspaper that called for the assassination, she must return to the capital, Kampala, been taken into account by a first immigration court in the United Kingdom.

• Erin Power, UKLGIG CEO, said. "Many others have their claims processed by a fast time held by the UKBA We have argued that whatever you do make proper sexual identity.
• "When [customers] tell us that they have photos or videos ... they say it is not the way to establish their sexuality. "

Approximately 75% of asylum seekers who claim they are gays and will be in danger if returned to the United Kingdom does not meet their demands, said Power. The failure rate has decreased since the new guidelines were introduced. From time to time, he acknowledged, had met said she had not considered credible.

Jonathan Cooper, a human rights lawyer who is the executive director of the Human Dignity Foundation, which is campaigning to decriminalize homosexuality in 80 countries, said the asylum procedure was often "incredibly demoralizing" and has resulted in many people being sent abroad, where they were attacked.

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