Reassess Home Office's asylum reforms and process UK asylum claims in France

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Priti Patel's proposed asylum reforms are ineffective, inhumane, and a breach of the UK's commitment to the UN Refugee Convention. The Government should allow asylum claims at the UK border on the French side to allow people to avoid dangerous crossings and reduce deaths in the Channel.

These asylum system reforms will change the criteria for asylum claims to include how people arrive in the country, and allow the Government to deport those whose entry it deems 'illegal'. The UN Refugee Convention declares that states cannot penalise asylum seekers based on how they enter the country.
The Government should instead process asylum claims on the French side of the UK border, in light of the fact that as of Oct. 2020, 292 people died trying to cross over the last 20 years.

Why it was rejected

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

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

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Timeline

24 Mar 2021	Petition opened for signatures
31 Mar 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 31 Mar 2021

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