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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 programme was the UK's "quota refugee" resettlement scheme. [3] Refugees designated as particularly vulnerable by the UNHCR were assessed by the Home Office for eligibility under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. If they met the eligibility criteria, they were brought to the UK and granted indefinite leave to remain. [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]
Resettlement schemes for Afghans to come to the UK will be merged into one and will eventually be closed down, the government has announced.. Defence secretary John Healey has said that the new ...
Resettlement schemes for Afghans to come to the UK after the Taliban takeover will eventually close, the Government has indicated. Defence Secretary John Healey said more than 1,000 eligible ...
UK Home Secretary James Cleverly with Rwandan Foreign Secretary Vincent Biruta in December 2023, after signing a new treaty related to the asylum plan.. The UK and Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership, [3] also known as the Rwanda asylum plan, [4] [5] was a policy that was announced in a speech by British prime minister Boris Johnson on 14 April 2022. [6]
Estimated net migration to the UK stood at a provisional total of 728,000 in the year to June 2024, down 20% from a revised record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023. ... and the resettlement ...
The UK government's Ukraine Family Scheme allows applicants to join family members who are already resident in the UK. [19]In May 2023, one of the architects of the plan, Dr Krish Kandiah, urged the British government to adopt a similar scheme for refugees from Sudan.