The report’s findings indicate that unaccompanied children arriving in Greece and applying for family reunion are waiting an average of 16 months from arrival until transfer, far exceeding the maximum of 11 months provided for in the Dublin Regulation. In some cases, children have been made to wait for over a year and a half.
Read MoreSafe Passage brought this case against the Home Office to challenge the so-called ‘expedited process’ that the Home Office conducted in Calais in the days leading up to the Jungle’s demolition in October 2016.
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Read MoreThese boys have waited for months in reception centres in France with no explanation regarding the manner in which the family reunion decisions in their cases had been reached or how to initiate the procedure to review the decision.
Read MoreThese vulnerability-led criteria are a significant improvement on the arbitrary and unfair ones used in Calais last year. That said using the March 20th cut off date lacks credibility and seriousness
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