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Thousands of Lankans 'officially lost' in UK by Reggie Fernando our London Correspondent Over 2,700 Sri Lankans are among the quarter of a million asylum seekers who have been officially lost and are roaming around Britain and working illegally, officials here say. According to Home Office figures released last week, at least 146 asylum seekers disappear from the system each day, leaving the authorities powerless to trace and deport them. Officials said that the true figures of lost illegal immigrants are much higher taking into account those who are smuggled into Britain without being recorded at all. A senior official told the Sunday Observer that during the past 12 years, 258,000 asylum seekers told to quit Britain have absconded, and have adopted false identities to take up employment in various parts of the country. "During the last three years alone, over 148,000 have vanished", he said. |
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