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Thursday, December 24, 2020

'Please help us': child refugees running out of time to reach UK before Brexit

Desperate relatives in Britain plead with Home Office for flexibility as paperwork holdups delay family reunions while deadline looms The Home Office has said it will not allow a group of stranded refugee children to join their families in the UK if their cases do not make it through the Greek asylum system by 31 December when the EU family reunification programme comes to an end. Around 20 children who are eligible to join their relatives in the UK under the current family reunification scheme are still waiting for their cases to be completed in Greece, before the UK government ends the programme when it leaves the EU on the 31st December. Continue reading...


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