They might be transferred to the UK after six months. The news has discovered that financial incentives are being offered to other members of the group to relocate to Sri Lanka, where they claim to be persecuted.
After their boat encountered difficulties in 2021, hundreds of Tamils were the first individuals to ever request asylum on Diego Garcia.
Due to the territory’s unique status, there was a protracted legal struggle. The UK government claimed that admitting the people would open up a “backdoor migration route.”
Ministers have been searching for a solution that safeguards both “the integrity of British territorial borders” and the well-being of migrants, according to a Foreign Office spokesman.
The representative claimed that relocating the most vulnerable migrants would provide them with “greater safety and wellbeing” while their legal claims are being handled.
British officials on the island made the offer to the refugees on Tuesday, following the UK’s announcement that it was giving Mauritius control over the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), which includes Diego Garcia. But the military installation will stay on the island.
When the news attended a court hearing last month to discuss whether the group had been wrongfully held in a small, gated camp under private protection, they were granted access to Diego Garcia that had never before been granted.
