Passports: Syria

(asked on 27th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports have been confiscated from Syrian citizens by UK officials in Turkey in 2016 on the basis of those passports having been stolen.


Answered by
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Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 7th November 2016

The Home Office does not have legal authority in Turkey to confiscate foreign passports which have been reported as lost or stolen or identified as forged.

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