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Mahmood announces new refugee sponsorship route into UK
The Home Office said the system will operate at much higher capacity, while new laws would narrow family claims and modern slavery protections.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a new plan to open safe and legal sponsorship routes for refugees, allowing thousands of people to legally enter and settle in the UK.
- The new policy includes three distinct pathways starting this autumn, enabling community groups, universities, and eventually employers to directly sponsor eligible refugees.
- Inspired by a highly successful Canadian model that has resettled 400,000 people since 1979, the UK government aims to gradually scale up the program to accept thousands of genuine refugees each year.
- Alongside these legal routes, the upcoming immigration bill will heavily tighten human rights laws and restrict modern slavery protections to make it much easier to deport illegal migrants and foreign criminals.
- The announcement comes at a politically tense time as Mahmood faces internal party pressure and seeks to build support ahead of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's upcoming resignation and a leadership transition.
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LONDON (AP) — The UK government said it will open safe and legal pathways for eligible refugees, while also changing human rights laws to make it easier to deport people who…
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How Mahmood's new Ukrainian-style refugee scheme will work
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to introduce a new safe routes system for refugees styled on the Ukrainian sponsorship scheme. As part of the Home Secretary’s new plan, safe routes, which could open as soon as this autumn, would allow “trusted” private citizens, community groups and organisations to sponsor refugees to come to the UK. A separate route for employers to sponsor refugees is expected to open next year. The new UK refugee sponsorship plan …
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