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Shabana Mahmood: Children born in UK to refugees will be deported
Children born in the UK to refugees risk deportation unless they gain citizenship, with refugee status reviewed every 30 months under new Home Office rules.
- On Monday, the Home Office confirmed children born in the UK to refugee parents must leave if parental refugee status is revoked unless they have British citizenship.
- A government source said officials seek to reform the European Convention on Human Rights to restrict Articles 3 and 8 interpretations, aiming to reduce deportation barriers.
- Refugees will receive temporary status reviewed every 30 months, with those from safe countries required to return and encouraged to do so via voluntary return with financial support, the Home Office said.
- Steve Reed defended the changes on Tuesday, saying families would not be separated despite more than two dozen Labour MPs revolting and Lord Alf Dubs accusing ministers of using `children as a weapon`.
- Jake Richards will travel to Strasbourg to press the European Court of Human Rights on Article 3 ahead of the December 10 justice ministers' meeting, while the Home Office considers pathways for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
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Labour peer accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘using children as a weapon’ in asylum reforms
Lord Alf Dubs, who fled from the Nazis as a child refuge, described the government’s proposals as ‘shabby’ after the Home Office said it could deport children of failed asylum seekers
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In most European Union countries, asylum is granted for an indefinite, practical period of life, but plans to extend the period from one time to the other are usually agreed to for an unlimited period of five years, as in many countries, for ten years, as is now in Denmark.
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