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In light of this recent article, here is a short explainer on current rules on affordable housing eligibility for migrants. 🧵👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/briton…
thetimes.co.uk/article/briton…
A person is excluded from housing or homelessness assistance if they are ‘subject to immigration control’.
This is everyone who is not British, Irish, or a Commonwealth citizen with the "right of abode".
This is everyone who is not British, Irish, or a Commonwealth citizen with the "right of abode".
The government has the power to make exceptions to this general rule - and does so - for people who have confirmed refugee status (i.e., claimed and granted asylum) and for other similar humanitarian reasons - for example people from Ukraine 🇺🇦
Whichever UK city gets to host #Eurovision in partnership with Ukraine next Spring, can we make this the "Welcomers Eurovision", by putting #HomesForUkraine hosts and guests right at the heart of it? (Press Association)
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More on the "Welcomers Eurovision" vision for the 2023 contest, from new @britishfuture report for the @Spiritof2012 power of events inquiry. More info & our full report here
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spiritof2012.org.uk/seizing-the-mo…
How to make this a Welcomers Eurovision next year with #HomesforUkraine My @CapX blog on lessons from this summer of events for future opportunities
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I'm a British volunteer in working on the Polish-Ukrainian border in Przemyśl with Ukrainian refugees. The UK visa process for people FLEEING A WAR is atrocious. Here's a little snippet of something I'm try to fix today 👇
Background: the charity I'm working with does UK visa sponsor matching, visa applications, accommodation for refugees, pet passport arrangements and also transport for Ukrainians to the UK.
One of our clients received an email from the Wales super sponsor programme she's applying for. Many thanks middle-aged Ukrainian don't speak any English and of course the email she received was in English only, no translation, no option for translation.
Day 14 since applying for a visa under the #HomesforUkraine scheme. Still nothing from the Home Office. 1/3
This is despite the Home Office briefing it’s now taking ‘a week’, as here in The Times. (I suspect they’re averaging out time for visas from the family scheme, which is quicker, because you can do the checks after arrival in the UK). 2/3
Finally, the government website says the Ukraine visa helpline is open 24/7. I’ve just tried it. It isn’t.
(@michaelgove)
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So people can't even get visas to access the scheme. This is why, rather than cobbling together a hodgepodge plan which puts refugees at yet more risk, the government needs to treat this as an asylum situation and activate protection measures. 1/ #r4today
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
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Instead though they've continued to treat the Ukrainian war as an immigration situation which needs visas, as if people are choosing to come to UK for fun. Asylum and immigration systems are different and include different responses, that's why you can't use one for the other. 2/
Government needs to though, with its cack-handed attempt to privatise protection through #HomesForUkraine scheme. Treating Ukrainians as asylum seekers would show up what a dangerous, illegal, discriminatory and inhumane piece of legislation the #NationalityAndBordersBill is. 3/
⚡️⚡️важлива інформація: Схема «#WarmScotsWelcome».
- Українці без названого спонсора тепер можуть вибрати «уряд Шотландії» і бути прийнятими на цій основі
– Уряд Шотландії також отримає відомості про шотландців, які звертаються до «#HomesForUkraine», щоб допомогти їм узгодити.
- Українці без названого спонсора тепер можуть вибрати «уряд Шотландії» і бути прийнятими на цій основі
– Уряд Шотландії також отримає відомості про шотландців, які звертаються до «#HomesForUkraine», щоб допомогти їм узгодити.
Thread: In theory, the new #HomesForUkraine scheme starts working today. As more information comes out the clearer it becomes how unsuitable and ill-prepared it is. Rather than alleviate concerns it has become nigh on inevitable that it will increase exploitation. 1/ #r4today
You can argue "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good", problem is this scheme is neither perfect nor good. If traffickers were to design something to maximize ways to exploit people it would potentially look like this, and it doesn't need to. We already have models which work 2/
Local authorities mechanisms already exist, and as shown in the past, could be activated to provide necessary protection and support through a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary approach, which would meet immediate safeguarding needs. 3/
It's absolutely brilliant that there has been such a huge response from the British public to accommodate refugees, and it is truly disturbing that we are in a place where 44,000 could feasibly to do so without even being DBS checked. #r4today. 1/
Over a number of years the previous "community sponsorship scheme" took about 600 people, so you can't even use that as a basis to argue what will or won't happen with the government #HomesForUkraine scheme. What you can do is look at the evidence and worry about safeguarding. 2/
"Light touch" National approach in the immediacy means people are being properly vetted before they take Ukrainian citizens into their homes. By only later on down the line having more detailed local authority checks you all but guarantee people slipping through the cracks. 3/
