US EditionBritain suspends refugees' family reunion applications to toughen rules
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to overhaul family reunion rules and asylum appeals to combat people smuggling and reduce pressure on local housing authorities.
- On Monday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the government is temporarily suspending new applications under the refugee family reunion route while reforms are set.
- Amid rising local pressure, officials cite refugees applying for family reunification within about a month, straining housing, while the government argues people‑smuggling gangs exploit reunion promises to promote Channel small boats crossings, pressuring local authorities.
- Cooper will outline tougher English language and financial requirements, create a new independent appeals body, and cite National Crime Agency data showing a 40% rise in disruptions, plus plans for 1,000 more detention beds at Campsfield and Haslar Immigration Removal Centres.
- On Friday, the Court of Appeal overturned an injunction blocking the Home Office from using the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, and the Epping Forest District Council will meet on Monday to consider a Supreme Court appeal.
- Later this year the government will set out a new family migration system, aims to implement some changes by spring, and plans to end asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament.
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Interior Minister Yvette Cooper said she wanted to fight against smugglers who, in her view, used family reunification to "encourage more people to board."
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Total News Sources28
Leaning Left7Leaning Right4Center5Last UpdatedBias Distribution44% Left
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L 44%
C 31%
R 25%
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