| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:French just watching migrant dinghy's | |
| Posted by: | Sara Nathan | |
| Date/Time: | 26/11/21 23:52:00 |
| What correct channels? You cannot apply for asylum without being in the UK. There is no queue to jump. You can't apply online, nor at an embassy, consulate, port or airport. You have to get here first. Carriers are fined if they let on people without visas. Doctors and nurses are no different. They too have to claim asylum if they are fleeing war or oppression. And asylum-seekers are banned from working while they wait, although a few can apply for permission to work in "shortage occupations' once they have been here a year. So your doctor might be able to - but only as a doctor and accredited by the GMC, not as a health care assistant for instance to earn some money while they qualify. And while France may seem safe to you - and indeed many, many more asylum-seekers stay there than try to come here, the police and authorities are often brutal to refugees (one of my guests was beaten up and tear gassed by the French police and swore he would never claim asylum there after that) Plus people have the right to choose where they claim asylum...usually they choose where they feel safe, have family or community or speak the language. Under the 1951 Refugee Convention, there is no "first safe country" rule. Finally, we have left the EU. Why should it in general - or France in particular - make any attempt to retain people who clearly don't want to stay there? Or indeed accept any returns just in order to benefit a nation that has decided it doesnt want to be part of it and which has given up its Dublin3 treaty rights? |