Refugees: Calais

(asked on 20th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will grant all children brought from Calais under the Dublin agreement or the Dubs amendment indefinite leave to remain.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 31st October 2016

The Government will process cases in line with the EU’s Dublin Regulation and Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016.

The Dublin Regulation does not confer leave on individuals; it is a mechanism for transferring responsibility of asylum claims between Member States.

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