Claim: One in six asylum seekers didn't meet with border officials and have vanished.
Fact-check: Have 12,000 asylum seekers vanished in the UK? - Full Fact
Verdict: almost 12,000 asylum seekers, or around one in six, are listed as having their case "on hold" but the home office says this includes people who missed a first asylum interview and attended later, rather than vanishing. its data doesn't make this clear.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2016-10-03T00:00:00