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Lottie Kilraine

UK’s visa scheme painfully slow says lecturer offering home to five Ukrainians

Ukrainian refugees stand next to their belongings after they arrive from Moldova at the international airport of Bordeaux, France

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

A British host offering his home to a family of five Ukrainians has accused the Government of making its visa scheme “as difficult as possible” for those who are “desperate to help”.

Neil Adams, 54, has offered his house in Wigan to a husband, wife and their children after they were forced to flee their home in Berdychiv, in the Zhytomyrska region of northern Ukraine.

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