The United Kingdom proposes including Ecuador in asylum seeker agreement, reports The Times

In late 2023, the British government signed an agreement with Rwanda to send asylum seekers who enter that region illegally.

Now the plan seeks to extend to other nations, according to documents leaked by The Times. The portal indicates that the plan seeks to initially replicate in Armenia, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Botswana with which talks have already begun at the government level on the asylum processing agreement in third countries.

All four countries were a priority for the UK in a list of potential locations.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have proposed including Paraguay, Peru, Brazil and Ecuador, however, their governments would have less interest in signing.

According to the publication, there is a reserve list made up of Cape Verde, Senegal, Tanzania and Sierra Leone that would be contacted if talks do not progress with other destinations.

There are other countries such as Morocco and Tunisia that explicitly refused to participate in the program.

The prime minister seeks to close two agreements in addition to the one with Rwanda and to select possible destinations, the size of the territory and population is identified.

Rwanda and the United Kingdom started the plan in April 2020 during Boris Johnson’s mandate to receive migrants crossing the English Channel.

There was criticism because it was raised because there was a risk that the applicants would be deported to their country of origin. (I)