Refugees: Children

(asked on 18th July 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children with refugee status in the UK have been granted permission to sponsor family members to join them under the refugee family reunion rules in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 26th July 2016

Under the Family Reunion Rules, children cannot sponsor family members. Any grant of leave in such cases would be on an exceptional basis outside the Immigration Rules. To obtain the information would involve examining individual case records and would incur a disproportionate cost.

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