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Draw a distinction between asylum seekers and legal immigrants!

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

People use ‘Immigrant’ as a blanket term, referring to legal and non legal migrants, so when people speak out against immigration, meaning illegal, the government wrongly makes all immigration channels more difficult. We want parliament to publicly re clarify and make legal channels easier.
Politicians are doing what they believe the country wants, but this false identification is causing legal immigration to be more difficult simply because the average Brit doesn’t distinguish between the word immigrant and the word asylum seeker after years of false news representation. The governments test groups therefore are inaccurate and we risk allowing legislation to pass that doesn’t actually represent what the people of the UK really feel and want.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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Timeline

27 Sep 2025 Petition opened for signatures
23 Oct 2025 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11
Status Rejected
Rejected 23 Oct 2025

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 23 Aug 2026.