Reunite Families UK
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Reunite Families UK (RFUK) is a lived experience non profit organisation supporting and advocating for people affected by UK spouse migration policy which is one of the harshest in the world
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The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
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Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
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Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.
If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.
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People seeking asylum in the UK deserve safety and dignity
Read our statement reiterating our support to organisations welcoming and supporting refugees in the UK. We also share responses from the sector about how the government's proposals on the asylum sys...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The "safe and legal routes", the sop to allow Labour MPs to convince themselves that there's a smidgen of morality here, are to cover "a few hundred people"
Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies
Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The "safe and legal routes", the sop to allow Labour MPs to convince themselves that there's a smidgen of morality here, are to cover "a few hundred people"
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Shabana Mahmood confirmed in the House of Commons yesterday that the new safe and legal routes in the asylum policy statement would be only "in the low hundreds". This is at the same time that refugee family reunion is paused, and will be significantly restricted
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies
Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Shabana Mahmood confirmed in the House of Commons yesterday that the new safe and legal routes in the asylum policy statement would be only "in the low hundreds". This is at the same time that refugee family reunion is paused, and will be significantly restricted
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Lord Dubs of Battersea is quite right.
The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer Alf Dubs
Dubs, who was a child refugee, says Shabana Mahmood’s ‘shabby’ plans will increase community tensions
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Lord Dubs of Battersea is quite right.
The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
We couldn't agree more with what Stephen writes in this column.
Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.
To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.
Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.
To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We couldn't agree more with what Stephen writes in this column.
Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.
To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.
Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.
To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.
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We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
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I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
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Our lived experience and work with spouse-visa applicants show how exclusionary and often racist the immigration system is.
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says
The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Our lived experience and work with spouse-visa applicants show how exclusionary and often racist the immigration system is.
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Our lived experience and work with spouse-visa applicants show how exclusionary and often racist the immigration system is.
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says
The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Our lived experience and work with spouse-visa applicants show how exclusionary and often racist the immigration system is.
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The UK already has some of the harshest family migration rules—and now it’s reportedly looking at Denmark, ranked the worst in the world. How is this fighting the far right, it’s appeasing them. Our families deserve dignity, not scapegoating. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The UK already has some of the harshest family migration rules—and now it’s reportedly looking at Denmark, ranked the worst in the world. How is this fighting the far right, it’s appeasing them. Our families deserve dignity, not scapegoating. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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This joint statement has been signed by over 60 organisations — united in calling for compassion, fairness, and justice.
We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽
#FamiliesBelongTogether #RefugeesWelcome #EndHostileEnvironment
We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽
#FamiliesBelongTogether #RefugeesWelcome #EndHostileEnvironment
The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This joint statement has been signed by over 60 organisations — united in calling for compassion, fairness, and justice.
We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽
#FamiliesBelongTogether #RefugeesWelcome #EndHostileEnvironment
We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽
#FamiliesBelongTogether #RefugeesWelcome #EndHostileEnvironment
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This joint statement coordinated by @rfuk.bsky.social and @jcwi-uk.bsky.social has been signed by over 60 organisations.
We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽
#FamiliesBelongTogether
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽
#FamiliesBelongTogether
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This joint statement coordinated by @rfuk.bsky.social and @jcwi-uk.bsky.social has been signed by over 60 organisations.
We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽
#FamiliesBelongTogether
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
We call on the government to reverse this heartless decision and reinstate the right to family reunion. ✊🏽
#FamiliesBelongTogether
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
It is harrowing to see the Home Office once again preventing families from being safely reunited in the UK.
No child — from Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan or any other war zone should be left to face horrific violence alone because of a bureaucracy blind to their suffering
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No child — from Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan or any other war zone should be left to face horrific violence alone because of a bureaucracy blind to their suffering
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Teenager from Gaza ‘stuck in hell’ after being prevented from joining mother in UK
Dania Alafranji, 16, still waiting on visa despite being offered school place in Berkshire 18 months ago
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It is harrowing to see the Home Office once again preventing families from being safely reunited in the UK.
No child — from Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan or any other war zone should be left to face horrific violence alone because of a bureaucracy blind to their suffering
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No child — from Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan or any other war zone should be left to face horrific violence alone because of a bureaucracy blind to their suffering
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Reunite Families strongly reject Katie Lam’s toxic, dangerous rhetoric on deporting long-settled families. This isn’t “policy” — it’s cruelty echoing the racism history warned us against. We’ll keep fighting for compassion justice, and the right to call the UK home
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...
Katie Lam: head girl, immigration hardliner — and the Tories’ new hope
Touted as a potential Tory leader, the rookie MP is a practising Christian who also has a side career in musical theatre and has written five commercial shows
www.thetimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reunite Families strongly reject Katie Lam’s toxic, dangerous rhetoric on deporting long-settled families. This isn’t “policy” — it’s cruelty echoing the racism history warned us against. We’ll keep fighting for compassion justice, and the right to call the UK home
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...
Really worrying findings from @helenbamber.bsky.social on the suspension of the refugee family reunion route:
➡️ Families pushed towards smugglers
➡️ Children + partners left in danger
➡️ One of the few safe routes to the UK is closing
#FamiliesBelongTogether
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
➡️ Families pushed towards smugglers
➡️ Children + partners left in danger
➡️ One of the few safe routes to the UK is closing
#FamiliesBelongTogether
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Ban on family reunion has left refugees in grave danger, home secretary warned
Refugees will struggle to integrate in the UK if they are barred from being reunited with partners and children, report warns
www.independent.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Really worrying findings from @helenbamber.bsky.social on the suspension of the refugee family reunion route:
➡️ Families pushed towards smugglers
➡️ Children + partners left in danger
➡️ One of the few safe routes to the UK is closing
#FamiliesBelongTogether
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
➡️ Families pushed towards smugglers
➡️ Children + partners left in danger
➡️ One of the few safe routes to the UK is closing
#FamiliesBelongTogether
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
x.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
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We could receive £1,000 in the Movement for Good draw.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Reunite Families strongly reject Katie Lam’s toxic, dangerous rhetoric on deporting long-settled families. This isn’t “policy” — it’s cruelty echoing the racism history warned us against. We’ll keep fighting for compassion justice, and the right to call the UK home
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...
Katie Lam: head girl, immigration hardliner — and the Tories’ new hope
Touted as a potential Tory leader, the rookie MP is a practising Christian who also has a side career in musical theatre and has written five commercial shows
www.thetimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reunite Families strongly reject Katie Lam’s toxic, dangerous rhetoric on deporting long-settled families. This isn’t “policy” — it’s cruelty echoing the racism history warned us against. We’ll keep fighting for compassion justice, and the right to call the UK home
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...
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Keir Starmer's call for unity rings hollow. Under his leadership, rampant racism has gone unchecked.
It's disingenuous to talk about growth & belonging whilst also announcing tougher immigration rules that create a two-tier system and will devastate our economy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's disingenuous to talk about growth & belonging whilst also announcing tougher immigration rules that create a two-tier system and will devastate our economy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Decency or division’: Britain faces era-defining choice, Keir Starmer warns
Prime minister lambasts Nigel Farage and the politics of Reform in combative Labour conference speech
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Keir Starmer's call for unity rings hollow. Under his leadership, rampant racism has gone unchecked.
It's disingenuous to talk about growth & belonging whilst also announcing tougher immigration rules that create a two-tier system and will devastate our economy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's disingenuous to talk about growth & belonging whilst also announcing tougher immigration rules that create a two-tier system and will devastate our economy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This govt can't claim it's committed to international law whilst also saying it wants to 'restrict' protections available to torture survivors & those at risk of torture if deported.
It's 1 or the other, either you oppose torture & respect international law, or you don't.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
It's 1 or the other, either you oppose torture & respect international law, or you don't.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Home Office to ‘massively’ restrict courts’ ability to prevent deportations
Shabana Mahmood to clamp down on use of ECHR articles three and eight
inews.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This govt can't claim it's committed to international law whilst also saying it wants to 'restrict' protections available to torture survivors & those at risk of torture if deported.
It's 1 or the other, either you oppose torture & respect international law, or you don't.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
It's 1 or the other, either you oppose torture & respect international law, or you don't.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...