June 21, 2021
With the prospect of all COVID restrictions being lifted in the UK in the next 4 weeks, families across the country are looking forward to being able to reunite with one another, to see the return of birthday parties, school graduation celebrations, Sunday afternoon family dinners. Yet, for many refugee’s living in the UK there…
View ArticleJune 10, 2021
Liberal Democrat peer Sarah Ludford is tabling new legislation that would mean more refugee children, torn apart by war, conflict and persecution, are able to reunite safely in the UK. Baroness Ludford introduced the Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday 8th June. Backed by the Families Together Coalition[1], a group…
View ArticleApril 30, 2021
This guide has been created by the Families Together coalition. It includes how the Families Together coalition plans to respond to each section of the consultation which relates to family reunification. We are aware that some questions in the consultation relating to family reunion are not covered in this guide (E.g. question 9). This is…
View ArticleApril 28, 2021
On the 24 March 2021, the UK government published The New Plan for Immigration; a series of proposals including sweeping changes that undermine how the UK fulfils its international obligations to those seeking asylum, most notably by proposing differential treatment according to the way a refugee arrived in the UK. This will include restricted family…
View ArticleApril 22, 2021
I came to the UK as an asylum seeker, was granted refugee status in 2016, and reunited with my family in 2018, four years after I fled Eritrea. I fled Eritrea in 2014 because of political problems in the country. At the time, I was in the military service. For fear of my safety and…
View ArticleYaser is a Syrian refugee, who came to the UK in August 2018 as an asylum seeker. ”In 2010 I moved to Saudi Arabia from Syria and got married to my wife. We were living in Mecca at the time, and because of the conflict in Syria we were unable to return to our country…
View ArticleMy name is Sami Tola, I am a refugee originally from Eritrea. I was reunited with my wife, after 5 years of family separation, in March 2020 before the COVID-19 lockdown was introduced. But I remain separated from my daughter who is only one-year old. My wife, originally from Ethiopia, came to the UK through…
View ArticleMy name is Sarah Alex, I am originally from India. In 2013, because of domestic abuse I experienced, I fled to the UK leaving behind my three daughters and mother. This incident made me the patient of PTSD. I started to take antidepressants and counselling on daily basis. I was an asylum seeker who had…
View ArticleOriginally, I am from the Congo DRC and came to the UK as a refugee in June 2016. I, my parents, my three brothers, and my sister migrated to Burundi in 1998 because of the conflict in Congo DRC. Many people were getting sick and dying in refugee camps in Burundi. Because of this my…
View ArticleI am originally from Syria and came to the UK with my children through the refugee family reunion route in 2018, in order to join my husband who was then in Scotland as a refugee. Because of the conflict, my family fled Syria in 2012. I immigrated together with my mother, younger sister, husband and…
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