More than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees who escaped Putin’s war face being forced out of Britain after their visas expire

More than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees who escaped Putin’s war face being forced out of Britain after their visas expire

Around 100,000 Ukrainian refugees who escaped Putin‘s war face being forced out of Britain after their visas expire in 2025.

Conservative MPs have said refugees from Ukraine should be urgently informed about what happens when their visas run out.

The lack of guidance as to what will happen to those who came to live in the UK once their three-year visas under the resettlement schemes expire has led to concern.

Sir Robert Buckland, the former justice secretary under Boris Johnson, said ministers should consider giving Ukrainians a more permanent status, The Telegraph reports.

Sir Robert said the ‘bespoke’ offer, designed for a ‘particularly urgent and unprecedented situation’, needs a ‘further bespoke response’.

Ukrainians board evacuation trains as they try to leave the country in Lviv train station, western Ukraine, on March 7, 2022

People wait to board an evacuation train at a railway station in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine, on March 5, 2022

People wait to board an evacuation train at a railway station in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine, on March 5, 2022

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