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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

Ukrainian refugees arrive at visa centre to be told they must travel 170 miles to complete application

Marianne Kay

Ukrainian refugees have attended a UK visa centre in Poland to submit an application to join relatives in the UK, only to be told that they must travel 170 miles across the country in order to complete the process.

Ministers have been accused of sending refugees “from pillar to post” after it emerged that people arriving at a visa centre in Rzeszów, Poland, to apply under the UK’s family migration route are being told to go to another centre in Warsaw, a four-hour journey, to obtain their visa.

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