Reunite Families UK

We reject this hostile approach — one that sacrifices everyone’s rights just to appease a hateful minority.
We deserve better. And we’ll keep campaigning to protect our shared rights.
Only by doing so can we truly uphold — and celebrate — human rights.

Take the European Convention on Human Rights.
It’s under relentless attack, yet it’s the very framework that helps many of the families we support reunite with loved ones when strict financial rules would otherwise keep them apart.
Dismantling it means denying the basic human right of a family life

We’re already seeing the consequences: worsening mental health, children growing up separated from one of their parents, and a persistent feeling among many that they are excluded or discriminated against in their own country — or the country they have chosen to call home.

This isn’t abstract. The constant denigration of human rights has real human costs — not only for today’s “enemy of choice” (migrants, refugees, people born abroad) but for all of us who live in this country.

Today should be a day to celebrate Human Rights our #OurEverydayRights.
Instead, we’re left reflecting on the countless ways those rights are being attacked, undermined and dismissed by our Government, our political class and much of our media.

Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."

So why should migrant children?

YouTube video by United Impact The harmful impact of NRPF

We have made an animation, to show how the 'No Recourse to Public Funds' immigration condition, has harmed our families:
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Please write to your MP using our pre-filled letter template, to ask them to call for an end to #NRPF:
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We agree with Sam.

Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.

It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.

No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together

🚨The latest Home Office stats show that 5000+ children risked their lives across the Channel last year to reach safety & family here. More than half alone.

This will only get worse as the govt continues its attack on family reunion, one of the last few safe routes to the UK.

Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.

If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.

People seeking asylum in the UK deserve safety and dignity Read our statement reiterating our support to organisations welcoming and supporting refugees in the UK. We also share responses from the sector about how the government's proposals on the asylum sys...

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Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people

The "safe and legal routes", the sop to allow Labour MPs to convince themselves that there's a smidgen of morality here, are to cover "a few hundred people"

Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people

Shabana Mahmood confirmed in the House of Commons yesterday that the new safe and legal routes in the asylum policy statement would be only "in the low hundreds". This is at the same time that refugee family reunion is paused, and will be significantly restricted

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer Alf Dubs Dubs, who was a child refugee, says Shabana Mahmood’s ‘shabby’ plans will increase community tensions

Lord Dubs of Battersea is quite right.

The proposed immigration changes are needlessly cruel and will do little to make our immigration system more humane, workable, safe or responsible. I strongly encourage the Govt to look again at proposals.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We couldn't agree more with what Stephen writes in this column.

Starmer’s govt has wrecked race relations.
Border policy failure doesn’t excuse racism—ever.

To suggest otherwise is cynical, corrosive, and indefensible.

We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether

Asylum and returns policy statement This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.

I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...

We have lost faith in parties willing to compromise basic human rights just to survive another day in Parliament.
We deserve better—and we will keep demanding it.

The real issues lie in boardrooms, in deepening inequality, in a Britain where child poverty grows daily while a @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government refuses to act to reverse it.

We will not accept these plans idly.
We will organise standing together as loving couples and families and we will fight.
We believe the public will realise that the true failings of our society aren’t caused by people seeking safety.

And while polls may suggest the public supports this cruelty, we know many will soon see through the snake oil sold by politicians too afraid to stand against racism, too unwilling even to protect children from the Hostile Environment.

It’s a distraction tactic:
instead of facing government failures, the electorate is encouraged to blame people fleeing war, persecution, or simply seeking a safer, better life for their families.

For a long time we’ve feared that being “tough” on migration has become a cross-party performance.
It’s treated as something every party must prove, no matter the cost.
This is how racism and cruelty become mainstream.

These proposals undermine protections offered by the European Convention on Human Rights—protections born from the horrors of the Second World War.
Dismantling them now is a dangerous step backwards and will diminish our collective human rights.

We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether

Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.

Our lived experience and work with spouse-visa applicants show how exclusionary and often racist the immigration system is.
We worry the Government’s harsher tone reflects global right-wing pressure and emboldened far-right ideas rooted in racial hierarchy.
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Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.

The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A warning: these plans won’t just harm people seeking safety—they’ll affect all of us.
As past spouse-visa crackdowns targeted some groups but ended up hitting every family, new limits on reunification will hurt anyone who loves someone born abroad.
We must resist this.
ALL #FamiliesBelongTogether

Despite her claims, the Home Secretary’s plans risk dividing the country and empowering those who undermine universal human rights.
You can’t fight racism by echoing racist arguments—appeasement has never delivered a fairer society or stronger rights.

This colour line is clear in the contrast between support for people fleeing Ukraine and the lack of safe routes for those escaping Gaza or Sudan.
We were glad to see the swift and direct support offered to Ukrainians, but the unequal treatment exposes discrimination growing more visible every day.