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Immigration Bill

Proceeding contribution from Yvette Cooper (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 December 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills on Immigration Bill.

May I press the Minister on the people who are currently excluded by the rules? For example, a case has been raised with me about a family of refugees from Syria. The parents are in this country with their younger children, but their 19-year-old daughter is still in Lebanon. She is unable to join them, even though she is also a refugee from Syria, because she is over 18, which is surely wrong. As a result, they are worried that they may have to pay people smugglers and traffickers to get her to Britain, which is a huge risk and would mean breaking the law.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
603 c229 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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