Asylum: Children

(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time was for the family reunification process to be completed in (a) Calais, (b) Greece and (c) Italy in the latest period for which figures are available.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 12th September 2016

For unaccompanied refugee children accepted for transfer to the UK, transfer requests are generally processed within 10 days and children transferred within weeks. However transfer arrangements are set by the transferring member state who have six months to do so under the III Dublin Regulations.

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