Petition · past parliament
Demand all children migrants are verified by age before entering the country.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
The Home office is hiding behind ethics to allow migrants posing as refugees to pretend as children.
The discussion that needs to be held is that if it is unethical to test these people for age verification, it is unethical for us the British tax payer to take these people in at our expenses.
The discussion that needs to be held is that if it is unethical to test these people for age verification, it is unethical for us the British tax payer to take these people in at our expenses.
The ethics of the situation is thus, if age cannot be proved and it is clear they have destroyed documents as to circumvent the asylum application process across Europe then these people are not the refugees that would glad to be in the first safe country they come to, not to travel across Europe to get to Calais so they can get to the UK for benefits.
All immigration must be held to the same standard and not because a quota system is enforced.
All immigration must be held to the same standard and not because a quota system is enforced.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 19 Oct 2016 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 21 Oct 2016 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
21 Oct 2016
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.