Halt bringing child refugees to the UK until adequate vetting processes in place

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

The recent intake of 'child' refugees have proven to be largely unvetted. The Home Office has even recently confirmed that two thirds of disputed Calais 'child refugees' are adults. Also, for many of the ones that are children, it turns out they have nowhere to go and they end up in the care system

It is clear that many of the 'child refugees' are in fact adults and unfortunately for many of the ones that are children, either the relatives in the UK failed to materialise or the relatives were living in inadequate housing resulting in the child going into the care system.

The UK should do what it can to help child refugees that are at risk and have a valid claim to asylum in the UK, but I believe that this process should be halted until we have a functioning vetting process in place.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Verify that all child refugees accepted into the UK are genuinely under 18.

Timeline

21 Oct 2016	Petition opened for signatures
25 Oct 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 25 Oct 2016

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