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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Richard Wheeler

Immigration reforms risk criminalising Ukrainians arriving in UK, ministers told

AP

Ministers were warned they risk criminalising Ukrainian refugees entering the UK as MPs reinstated a series of controversial proposals to flagship immigration legislation.

The Nationality and Borders Bill makes it a criminal offence to knowingly arrive in the UK without permission rather than via a designated scheme or route, with a maximum sentence of four years in prison.

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