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UK’s visa scheme painfully slow, says Briton offering home to five Ukrainians

Neil Adams, who is rearranging his Wigan home for the family, said the Homes for Ukraine scheme has been made ‘as difficult as possible’.

The Independent UK · Apr 23, 2022

Delays with Ukraine children's visas leave Brit hosts at wits' end

Tim Boniface and his partner Jayne Coppinger are one of five households in Wysall, near Nottingham, sponsoring Ukrainian families under the Homes for Ukraine scheme

Wales Online · Apr 23, 2022

Delays processing Ukraine children’s visas leave hosts ‘at wits’ end’

A group of would-be hosts will stage a vigil outside the Home Office calling for an end to “cynical and deadly” delays.

The Independent UK · Apr 23, 2022

Some Ukrainian refugees face homelessness after arriving in Scotland, MSPs told

Holyrood’s Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee took evidence from local authority representatives on Thursday.

The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022

Three in 10 Ukrainians granted visas have arrived in UK – Government figures

As of Monday, some 21,600 Ukrainians had arrived in the UK under the Family Scheme and Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.

The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022

Beautiful Easter celebration set to welcome Ukrainian families to Gateshead

North East-based Ukrainians are set to welcome people who've fled to the UK under the Homes for Ukraine scheme

Chronicle Live · Apr 20, 2022

Some refugees returned to Ukraine due to visa delays , claims Holyrood minister

Neil Gray repeated his criticism of the time it takes for visas to be approved under the UK Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme.

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2022

Grant Shapps takes in Ukrainian refugee family of three - and their dog

The transport secretary is hosting a six-year-old boy, his mother and 75-year-old grandmother

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

Don’t assume being ‘hard’ on asylum is popular. Britons will recoil at the Rwanda plan

UK attitudes to migration and asylum are mixed but, in the round, they are softening. The left should not join the Tories in thinking the worst of voters

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022

Prince Charles’s Easter message pays tribute to those helping refugees

‘I have found myself heartbroken at the sufferings of the innocent victims of conflict, or persecution, some of whom I have met,’ the prince says

The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2022