The Home Secretary is a pressing ahead with plans - first floated in November - to create new 'safe and legal routes' for refugees.

Refugee charities fear controversial changes, including on forced removals and age checks, are being rushed through

Home secretary speeds up major part of bill governing asylum and refugees as new prime minister set to take over

The Home Secretary is a pressing ahead with plans - first floated in November - to create new 'safe and legal routes' for refugees.

The new law will also tighten the definition of ‘family’ for the purposes of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

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LONDON (AP) — Britain's government said it will open safe, legal routes for eligible refugees, while also changing human rights laws to make it easier to deport people who are

The UK government is set to introduce a sweeping immigration and asylum bill next week that will open new Canada-inspired legal routes for refugees while tightening rules…

Inspired by a Canadian scheme that has settled 400,000 people in the country since 1979, the new safe routes will allow communities and some universities to sponsor refugees

The new system is inspired by Canada's asylum seeker scheme, which allows private organisations and individuals to sponsor refugees

Britain is set to introduce safe, legal pathways for refugees, allowing community groups and employers to sponsor arrivals. Simultaneously, the government plans to amend human…

The new sponsorship scheme will “operate at a much higher capacity” than the UK Resettlement Scheme.

Mahmood plans to sponsor refugees to come to Britain, as she seeks to shore up support for a wider asylum overhaul

The UK interior ministry has announced it will create new legal routes for asylum seekers, including allowing community organisations to sponsor refugees based on a similar system…

The Home Secretary this weekend announced she would open 'safe and legal' routes that would allow a reported 10,000 asylum-seekers to come to the UK.

The home secretary’s plan to set up a safe legal route for a limited number of genuine refugees is balanced by a tougher approach to those who do not qualify