Shadow home secretaryYvette Cooper, said that the refugees in Ukraine facing “Kafkaesque” bureaucracy as they try to navigate the visa of the Ministry of the Interior requirements.
Cooper asked an urgent question over in government two visa schemes, with deputies on both sides of in house rounding on in government.
Shadow home secretary cases cited, including those of young woman who traveled extensively to fulfill requirements, including to Warsaw give biometric data; And mother as well as son who A visa was issued, but then it was canceled.
“This is Kafkaesque style: what on earth goes on? Why home secretary so totally incapable of pull yourself together on this?” Cooper asked.
“Why on earth does it take so long? Why do they still require stops of bureaucracy of information? Dozens of thousands of people still stuck in in system. Families are in despair. People across the country say they want to help, and yet the Home Office allows them down”.
House office minister Kevin Foster, answering questions from deputies, said that “the trajectory of The number of visas issued every day is increasing.” According to him, 23.5 thousand visas were issued to Ukrainians. with family connections in Great Britain; and 3705 under houses for Scheme of Ukraine – but said it was “too early to tell” how many of they really arrived in Great Britain.
In response to MPs’ questions, Foster acknowledged that the application forms were not available in Ukrainian. He said that their transfer would take “quite a considerable amount of technical work”, and suggested that it would then be difficult to find enough Ukrainian speakers to process them.
Line of Conservative MPs, including former Ministers Stephen Hammond and Robert Jenrick expressed concern about the slow pace of visa application for Houses for Scheme Ukraine.
jenrick, former Corps secretary said: “The vast majority of The sponsors will be waiting two weeks tomorrow and won’t hear anything at all. We are experiencing patience of people in this country who put themselves forward as sponsors and more more most importantly, we allow down these vulnerable individuals and families in Ukraine.”
The deputies raised the case of families wait many days before their applications are processed; as well as of parents cannot travel because they do not have a birth certificate or biometrics for babies and young children.
Scottish National party MP Stuart McDonald called bureaucratic obstacles faced applicants on Earth in Ukraine, “clumsy, bureaucratic and frankly traumatic.”
