Reunite Refugee Children with their Families in the UK

  • by: Unicef UK
  • recipient: Theresa May, Prime Minister

By reuniting refugee children safely with their families in the UK, we can protect children from drowning at sea, suffocating in the back of lorries or being forced into the hands of traffickers and smugglers. Sign today and demand the government take action!

Right now, refugee children are alone and exposed to danger, while their family members wait desperately for them in the UK. The Government can and must change this, by urgently reuniting children with their families. It can do this in two ways:

First, it is unacceptable that refugee children have been stuck for months in wretched camps from Greece to France, despite having a legal right to be with their families waiting for them in the UK. The UK Government must speed up existing family reunion procedures and process cases swiftly, so that these children can be reunited with their families in the UK.

Second, it is wrong that children are only able to reunite with parents, not extended family members, under current UK immigration laws. These laws fail to recognise that after years of conflict, many of these children have been orphaned – but they may have grandparents, aunts and uncles, or adult brothers and sisters in the UK who can care for them. The UK Government must widen its family reunion rules to allow children to be reunited with extended family in the UK.

Take action today. Tell Theresa May: Let child refugees be with their families in the UK.

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