means of entry

While the number of asylum seekers arriving by boat was significantly higher in 2021 than the previous year — and appears to be rising again in 2022 — experts have said it signals a change in route: Those hoping to enter Britain to claim asylum have shifted from other means of entry such as smuggling by truck and arriving by plane, as some means of international travel were halted by the pandemic.

There must have been some other means of entry, or some one had a key for one of the locked doors.

And so for full half a minute, which seemed an eternity, she remained between the lifted crucifix and the sacred closing of her means of entry.

But experts say the available data contains no evidence of a surge in total unauthorized arrivals, as opposed to a shift from other means of entry such as smuggling by truck.

Shivprasad said he had made sure his basement apartment had three means of entry and watertight doors.