Refugees: Syria

(asked on 6th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy for those admitted to the UK through the Syrian vulnerable persons programme to be able to apply for refugee status in the UK; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 9th February 2017

Those who benefit from resettlement under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme are granted five years’ Humanitarian Protection (HP). At the end of this period they can apply for settlement. It is open to those individuals to claim asylum which may result in them being granted refugee status. Each asylum claim is considered on its individual merits in accordance with our international obligations.

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