Improve Homes for Ukraine scheme for children

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government should urgently provide a clear way for children unaccompanied by their parents to get a visa, as stated in UNCRC Article 22, and force UKVI to issue responses/updates to all visa applications within 10 working days or a similar time frame.

Many children whose parents are fighting to restore peace in Ukraine have received no response from UKVI for months, likely due to the lack of clear guidelines. We feel like UKVI is failing to help those needing it most and are avoiding accountability for it by failing to respond to applications, a deadline for a response or update could be an answer to this. This war has already taken over 200 children's lives, we must prevent it taking more.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign these petitions which call for very similar actions:

Urgently review policy on Ukrainian children seeking to enter UK from Ukraine: Urgently review policy on Ukrainian children seeking to enter UK from Ukraine

Increase staffing to reduce waiting times for visas: Increase staffing to reduce waiting times for visas

Timeline

10 Jun 2022	Petition opened for signatures
14 Jun 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 14 Jun 2022

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