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Torcuil Crichton

SNP condemns UK visa scheme as 'disgraceful' as refugees told to wait two weeks for processing

The UK’s treatment of refugees from Ukraine has been branded “disgraceful”, according to Ian Blackford.

The SNP Westminster leader said the Home Office refugee response is one of the slowest and most bureaucratic in the whole of Europe as an SNP MP highlighted how one fleeing couple had been told to come back for processing in two weeks time.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Inverclyde MP Ronnie Cowan MP raised the case of a Ukrainian constituent who had been trying to elderly parents aged in their 80s refuge in the UK.

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