On March 24, Home Secretary Priti Patel unveiled the government’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’ policy paper. It proposes that only people arriving to the UK through official routes, like resettlement schemes, will be permitted to settle in the UK permanently.
If put into place, this policy would deny refugee status to anyone who passes through a third ‘safe’ country before arrival to the UK.
Anyone who makes a clandestine journey to the UK will be granted a new ‘temporary protection status’.
This temporary status will make it nearly impossible for asylum seekers to build a new life in the UK. They will be assessed for removal every 30 months. They will have fewer rights to family reunion. And they will have no recourse to public funds except in cases of destitution.