Alongside our partners and members across the UK, we have submitted a joint statement in response to the UK Government’s proposed changes to settlement.
If introduced, the proposals risk entrenching insecurity, poverty and exclusion, undermining integration and social cohesion, and placing additional pressure on public services. We are in no doubt that they will cause significant harm to affected migrants, refugees, and stateless people.
For stateless people specifically, the risks are acute. Extending and complicating settlement pathways would prolong statelessness, increase the likelihood of falling into irregularity, heighten barriers to work and integration, and - because stateless people have no other country to turn to for protection -trap individuals and families indefinitely in insecurity.
Our focus in this statement is therefore on the severe impact the proposals would have on stateless adults and children in the UK if introduced.
