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<p>The UK already provides a safe and legal route to bring families together through
its refugee family reunion policy. The current refugee family reunion policy allows
a partner and children under 18 of those granted protection in the UK to join them
here, if they formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their country.
Over 29,000 visas have been issued under this policy in the last 5 years. Under the
family reunion policy, we do not restrict where someone has to be in order to make
an application.</p><p>As set out in the New Plan for Immigration, the Government committed
to review safe and legal routes to the UK and has a statutory duty to conduct a public
consultation on family reunion for UASC in the EU. We have now completed the consultation
as part of the wider consultation on the New Plan for Immigration. We have carefully
considered the responses and a report, laid in Parliament on 22 July 2021, on the
outcome of the review of safe and legal routes confirms the UK wants to be bold and
ambitious in the safe and legal routes it provides.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/new-plan-for-immigration"
target="_blank">New Plan for Immigration - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p>
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