Ukraine

Alison Thewliss Excerpts
Tuesday 1st March 2022

(2 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I say to my hon. Friend that clearly we will do everything we can to help and support. It is very difficult. He will know from his constituent that things are getting really hard in country.

Alison Thewliss Portrait Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Central) (SNP)
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My constituent’s wife is a Ukrainian national who was granted a spousal visa last week, but in order to travel to the UK, she needs that visa added to her passport. The couple were in Poland when the invasion occurred, and neither the British embassy nor the third-party TLScontact can help. Can the Home Secretary therefore make urgent arrangements to allow the bureaucracy to take place in Warsaw, rather than their travelling back into the path of danger in Lviv, as the UK visas advice line asked them to do?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I am sure that can be done, because that will be documents of permission to travel.