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Community Sponsorship is a UK government-backed, volunteer-led refugee resettlement scheme. Inspired by the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program of over 40 years, Community Sponsorship was introduced in the UK in 2016. The scheme enables groups of local volunteers to support a refugee family for their first year in the UK.
The Gateway Protection Programme was a refugee resettlement scheme operated by the Government of the United Kingdom in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and co-funded by the European Union (EU), offering a legal route for a quota of UNHCR-identified refugees to be resettled in the UK.
Migrant Help is a United Kingdom-based national charity that has been supporting migrants since 1963. [3]The charity operates from 10 offices across the United Kingdom, providing advice, guidance and support to people seeking asylum, refugees and victims of modern-day slavery and human trafficking.
Exclusive: ‘They led him down this road of believing he had a chance and they put him up for months in Islamabad at an eye-watering cost of money. At the end of all this process they’re ...
Refugee Action works in association with other refugee and human rights organisations, such as the Refugee Council and Amnesty International.It was among the groups that campaigned against section 55 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, later overturned in the courts, which denied financial and housing support to asylum seekers who failed to claim asylum within three days of ...
The UK government's initial reaction to this was criticised for the maintenance of visa restrictions and the believed slowness of accepting applications. [3] On 11 March, the prime minister said a scheme was being planned to allow members of the public to house refugees in their homes. [ 4 ]
The Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme, [1] sometimes referred to as a Relocation [2] Scheme, [3] is a programme of the United Kingdom government that plans to resettle 20 000 Syrian refugees from refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey over the period from September 2015 to May 2020. [4]
The Scottish Refugee Council was at the forefront in helping these refugees settle and integrate into Scottish society. In 2000 the focus changed from resettlement to helping people return safely or make claims for asylum. The Immigration and Asylum Act (1999) established Glasgow as one of the largest refugee dispersal centres in the UK. [4]