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Joint Contribution for RAMP Cross-Party Submission
A safe and legal route from France to the UK through a humanitarian visa scheme
15 January 2021

Note: The following submission outlines policies proposed jointly by The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Detention Action, Refugee Rights Europe, Choose Love and Kent Refugee Action Network. It is, however, also based on on-going discussions among a wider group of organisations including several French refugee and migrants’ rights NGOs. The proposal, therefore, is a work-in-progress based in this continuing collaboration and will be subject to refining and defining in more detail as this forum continues discussions over the coming weeks and months.
 
Background
The situation for migrants in Northern France is a long-standing stain on the British conscience. It represents nothing less than a three-decades-long disaster. A standing population of migrants live in …