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UK grants “around 50” visas to Ukrainian refugee so far

UK grants “around 50” visas to Ukrainian refugee so far
News In English
07.03.2022
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Fifty Ukrainians have been granted visas under a scheme for refugees with family links to the UK, the Home Office has announced.

It is about 1% of the 5,535 people who have applied since the programme launched 48 hours earlier.

Europe minister James Cleverly said he did not know the exact figures but said numbers would increase “very quickly”.

The Ukrainian ambassador praised the UK effort but urged for the “maximum” number of people to be admitted.

Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was “doing everything possible” to speed up efforts to issue the travel permits.

The UK has steadily increased its visa offer to refugees from the Ukraine war, extending it to parents, grandparents and siblings as well as “immediate family” and extending the visas to three years.

But it has faced criticism that its scheme is less generous than the European Union’s, while France accused the UK of a “lack of humanity”, saying that 150 refugees were turned back at Calais for lacking a visa.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said 200,000 Ukrainians would be eligible to travel to the UK as he extended the offer of visas to a wider range of family members.

As of 10:00 GMT on Sunday, the Home Office said 11,750 had begun applications online, while 5,535 had completed them.

It added that 2,368 had booked a visa appointment to submit their application and biometric information, while “around 50” visas had been granted.

Asked if it was acceptable that about 1% of applications had been granted in the first 48 hours of the scheme, Ms Patel said it was “the first scheme in the world that’s up and running in this short period of time”.

“This is an incredible scheme and we are doing everything possible, surging capacity across every single application centre across the EU,” she said, adding that staff were being flown into Ukraine’s border countries to speed up applications.

Ukraine’s immediate neighbours have taken in the majority of the 1.5 million people estimated to have fled the war, with more than one million arriving in Poland.

Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK, said that the visa process could be simplified, adding that any issues could be resolved later but right now the “maximum” number needed to be admitted.

He said any “bureaucratic nonsense” should be cleared away, although he said it was necessary to continue security checks.

But he said the UK was at the “forefront of the effort” to support Ukraine.

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