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Humanitarian Visa Briefing – JCWI & Detention Action (Report Stage, Nationality & Borders Bill) – December 2021
New clauses 10 & 11 tabled to the Nationality & Borders Bill ahead of Report Stage in the House of Commons would create a targeted and workable Humanitarian Visa for asylum seekers resident in France seeking to come to the UK to make a substantive asylum or protection claim.
The amendments have been tabled by a cross-party group of MPs including Neil Coyle, Tim Farron, Joanna Cherry, Caroline Lucas, Helen Hayes & Stephen Farry.
Why a Humanitarian Visa is urgently needed
The mass loss of 27 lives in the Channel on the 24th November 2021 – which included men, women, pregnant women and children – starkly demonstrates how the UK’s failure to provide safe routes to the UK for those seeking protection has driven people to make riskier and riskier journeys that inevitably end in tragedy. Hundreds of other…
