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Pregnant woman who escaped Khartoum gives birth to ‘miracle’ baby in Cairo

Arab News 29 May 2023
Her husband was given refugee status in the UK, and applied to the Home Office for a refugee family reunion visa in February 2022, the newspaper reported ... Since 2019, the number of refugees resettled in the UK has fallen by 75 percent, while family reunion visas are 40 percent lower than pre-pandemic levels.
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Heavily pregnant woman who escaped from Sudan gives birth to ‘miracle baby’

The Observer 28 May 2023
The husband was granted refugee status after claiming asylum in the UK, and applied to the Home Office for a refugee family reunion visa in February 2022 ... At the time the couple applied for a family reunion visa the Home Office processing standard was 12 weeks ... “I hope the family reunion visa application will be processed very soon.
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No exit: Sudanese trapped in war as passports left in shut embassies

Urdu Point 03 May 2023
Before fighting broke out on April 15, dozens of unsuspecting Sudanese citizens had applied for visas for journeys abroad, handing over their travel documents along with other supporting papers ... - 'No response' - Another Sudanese, Iqbal Belah, 65, said she was eligible for a "family reunion" visa in Germany where her husband and son live ... ....
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Pregnant woman, child stuck in Khartoum after year-long UK visa delay

Arab News 29 Apr 2023
“If the Home Office had processed the family reunion visa when they were supposed to, my wife and daughter and our unborn child would be safely in the UK now.”. Government guidance says that individuals awaiting family reunion visas should wait nine months before contacting the Home Office for updates.
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Pregnant woman and child stranded in Sudan due to Home Office delays, says husband

The Observer 28 Apr 2023
“If the Home Office had processed the family reunion visa when they were supposed to, my wife and daughter and our unborn child would be safely in the UK now.” ... In an update on the government website a few weeks ago, officials said people awaiting refugee family reunion visas ...
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Multiple government defeats are likely when the illegal immigration bill heads to the Lords

The Observer 27 Apr 2023
That, of course, is the reality of the illegal immigration bill ... The UNHCR has named it for what it is ... Anadolu Agency/Getty Images ... It remains to be seen if this will actually result in any meaningful expansion of safe routes, such as the provision of family reunion visas, which have declined by 40% compared with the pre-Covid level in 2019 ... .
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Glimmer of hope for filial foreign residents?

Taipei Times 26 Apr 2023
Last year, when the NDC asserted that “family is an essential element of our culture [and] Taiwan has a long-standing practice of supporting family reunion within our visa regime,” readers of the Taipei Times familiar with immigration rules in places like the US, the UK and Singapore were — like this reporter — baffled.
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The program continues

The Cleveland American 11 Mar 2023
As of March, 10,000 Cubans have entered the United States thanks to new humane parole ... For this reason, in addition to parole, it is considered positive that the Embassy in Havana is “now fully open for immigrant visa processing” and that USCIS “has resumed processing under Cuban Family Reunion Program. .
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Why ‘safe routes’ to asylum can’t work

The Spectator 09 Mar 2023
I have never met Enver Solomon, the chief executive of the Refugee Council, but I have not the least doubt that his heart is in the right place. And that’s the problem ... Let me explain ... These should include refugee visa schemes, like those established for Ukrainians, expanding family reunion and increasing resettlement routes working with the UN’.
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Suella Braverman’s ‘stop the boats’ policy is performative, poisonous politics

Metro UK 08 Mar 2023
As her speech continued yesterday, it grew ever more corrosive (Picture. PA) ... a nasty, divisive, and morally abhorrent attack on this country’s values ... Figures from the Refugee Council suggest that resettlement numbers are 75% lower than in 2019, and the number of family reunion visas issued is 40% below pre-pandemic levels ... More. Rishi Sunak ... MORE ... ....
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How is the UK stopping Channel crossings and what are the legal routes to the UK?

Yahoo Daily News 07 Mar 2023
Migrants standing in a queue waiting to be processed in Kent ... Powers under the Illegal Migration Bill include. ... It is already illegal for migrants to knowingly enter the UK without a visa or special permission ... Refugee Family Reunion - for partners and children under 18 of those already granted protection in the UK. In 2021, 6,134 visas were granted.
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Separated During Partition, Family Reunites After 75 Yrs

Kashmir Observer 04 Mar 2023
Lahore- Seventy-five years after they separated during the Partition in 1947, the families of two Sikh brothers met at the Kartarpur Corridor, singing songs and showering flowers on each other in an emotional reunion made possible through social media ... on Thursday for a reunion.
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Social media reunites Sikh family separated at the time of Partition

Indian Express 04 Mar 2023
The families of Gurdev Singh and Daya Singh arrived at the Kartarpur Corridor on Thursday for a reunion. Emotional scenes of the family reunion were witnessed at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib where they sang songs to express their joy and showered flowers on each other.
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Social media reunites Sikh families separated during Partition tenure

The Telegraph India 03 Mar 2023
The families of Gurdev Singh and Daya Singh arrived at the Kartarpur Corridor on Thursday for a reunion ... Emotional scenes of the family reunion were witnessed at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib where they sang songs to express their joy and showered flowers on each other.
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Heavily backlogged family reunion visa scheme is 'forcing relatives of UK refugees to take dangerous ...

The Daily Mail 21 Feb 2023
The ‘family reunion’ visa route allows people granted asylum or humanitarian protection in the UK to apply to bring immediate family to join them ... ‘The lack of an effective family reunion route carries the risk that people will resort to dangerous journeys to join family members in the UK.’.

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