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Grant citizenship to asylum seekers living in the UK for more than 7 years

Submitted by Katherine Kay on Friday 26th February 2021

Published on Tuesday 9th March 2021

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 9th September 2021

Signatures: 696

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asylum ~ asylum seekers ~ British ~ Covid ~ Covid-19 ~ Crime ~ Criminal ~ Grant ~ Harder ~ Mental health ~ mentalhealth ~ NGOs ~ part ~ permission ~ UK

Petition Action

Grant citizenship to asylum seekers living in the UK for more than 7 years

Petition Details

Asylum seekers living in the UK for more than 7 years with no criminal records should be given British citizenship considering their living conditions after repeated warnings from healthcare professionals & humanitarian groups specially during Covid-19.

Additional Information

Asylum seekers do not have permission to work while awaiting a decision on their claim. They can end up living in squalid, unsafe slum housing conditions along with some facing racial & hate crime experiences. The long queues and long waiting hours at the reporting centre another factor in part of making life harder for them. A key concern highlighted is their mental health, with NGOs noting that asylum seekers are more likely to experience poor mental health than the local population.


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