Red Cross Pays For Dependents of Asylum Seekers to Relocate to Britain
The Red Cross is paying for hundreds of families to come to the UK to be reunited with migrants granted asylum, despite growing concerns over housing shortages. The Telegraph has more.
The charity locates, advises and funds the travel costs of up to 1,000 family members a year to come from abroad to join people who have been granted refugee status.
They are a portion of the record 20,000 family visas granted to children and wives or partners of refugees to join them in Britain.
Home Office figures show the overall number of successful applications for family visas has increased five-fold in three years, from 4,310 in the year to March 2023 to 20,592 in the year to this March.
Migrants granted asylum or refugee status in the UK can sponsor family members to come to the UK, with charities like the Red Cross providing advice and funds to help them.
Immigration rules mean that, unlike with other visas, family members coming to the UK are not required to demonstrate that they have the necessary accommodation or income to be able to live in the UK without claiming universal credit or housing benefits. There is also no requirement that they have to speak English.
Council officials have expressed concern that the growing numbers of asylum seekers and their families securing refugee status in the UK are placing unsustainable burdens on local housing.
Following the Telegraph’s investigation, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, signalled a shake-up in family reunions, which is likely to include new conditions and restrictions on refugees seeking to bring their families to the UK.
It is understood ministers are considering following other European states that bar migrants granted asylum from applying to reunite with their families until they have spent a number of years in the country. At present, they can apply as soon as they are granted asylum.
Ms Cooper told the Telegraph that the family reunion system Labour inherited from the Tories was “broken”.
She said the entire family immigration system – including migrants’ use of human rights laws – was being reviewed, with changes expected to be announced later this year.
“That also includes looking at increasing responsibilities for people to support their families, increasing English language requirements, and examining changes in this area that other countries have brought in,” she said.
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Surely if these men have traveled solo and left their families back home they can’t be in any sort of immediate danger and fleeing persecution, then? I was thinking that the only exception might be people who were ex-Muslims, from minority religions or gays, but surely they’d all flee as a family? So what would be their reason for travelling all that way, past many Muslim countries which would be more culturally compatible, passing through further safe countries in Europe, just to make a beeline for the UK? Because, speaking rationally, no normal Muslims would wish to head for Europe, would they? And I’ll stick my neck out and assume they’re not arriving in their droves to Bosnia or Albania. Of course not, and we know why. They’re coming over here for the perks and the cushy number they get as soon as they arrive. And I guess this is where these ‘Schools of Sanctuary’ fit into it, because it’s only through the family reunification process that any migrant kids arrive here in the first place, seeing as almost all boat people are men, with the exception of a few teenage lads. Anyway, let’s hope Starmer doesn’t do another ‘Macron’.… Read more »
There’s enough jihadis and their terrorist sympathisers already here without inviting more. Haven’t we learned the hard way that these people do not leave their attitudes and opinions of us in their homelands and make some sort of metamorphosis en route into a tolerant, respectful and compassionate human being intent on integration into our democratic and civilized society? ”This is what happens when you turn asylum into a political performance rather than a security measure. When a nation declares all Gazans eligible for refugee status – no screening, no scrutiny, just blanket moral posturing – it shouldn’t be shocked when it imports the very ideology that hates it. Nour Attalah didn’t sneak through the cracks. She was hand-picked by the system. Celebrated for “academic excellence,” granted a scholarship, and paraded as a symbol of compassion. What did France get in return? A Hitler-admiring Islamist who praised Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis; who glorified the Charlie Hebdo massacre; who called for the murder of Israeli hostages and declared Muslims should avoid “Christian activities.” This wasn’t a one-off post. It was her worldview. France is now reeling in performative outrage, “shocked” that a Gazan refugee could be so openly hostile to Western… Read more »
You are obviously right but we have seen logic reason or decency play no part.
For “reasons” the global great and good with the connivance of our own government are determined that England is to become a third world shithole, and much of it is already there.
Dem big bad Tories again. Swine!
The British Red Cross is yet another example of institutional capture of a long standing charity by its activist employees.
Red Cross – another actor who is a part of the probem. Never give them £. Besides Directors making a cool $1mn per annum they actively promote our own destruction.
Donations to charidees are just secondary taxation for the gullible.
I think supporting the local hospice is valid or the fund for repairing the church roof – but donors really ought to understand exactly what they’re supporting.
Stopped giving to Red Cross a while back when they became part of the problem.
The direction of travel is clear these people won’t stop until all the world’s 7 billion people are living in England on benefits.
But hey, once Africa is empty there’s some really nice places to be Kenya, rhodesia (as is properly called), Botswana, just don’t ever ever let the labour party anywhere near the levers of power.
Take a look at some of the publications by the British Red Cross
From the Foreword to Every time it rains: British Red Cross research into flooding in the UK.
The word ‘climate’ appears 72 times in the report.
Also look at their Family reunion for refugees page.
“ministers are considering following other European states that bar migrants granted asylum from applying to reunite with their families until they have spent a number of years in the country. At present, they can apply as soon as they are granted asylum.”
Behind the curve again.
Is there no limit to the venal and incompetent conduct of government. This was all going on under the Tories yet any day now we will hear a shadow minister tell us they would hope to stop this (some chance!).
So Yvette is expected to announce changes to the system later this year? I’m not saying changes should not be made, but with the numbers crossing over increasing all the time, there’s nothing that can be done to reverse the damage already being done to our society by these invaders. Our society and culture are being destroyed, and successive governments either couldn’t care less, or have been complicit in facilitating the destruction.
The Red Cross have spiralled downwards from the days of providing parcels to prisoners of war.
For Red cross substitute British citizens who donate to the Red cross. Frankly its a misuse of funds.
No more donations from me to the Red Cross or should that now be the Red Crescent?