Rejected petition Grant all undocumented migrants with Leave to Remain during COVID-19 pandemic

The Government should grant all undocumented migrants in the UK Leave to Remain, as is the case in Portugal. In this way every human, irrespective of their nationality or citizenship can access healthcare, housing, food and the same sources of income as everyone else during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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It is imperative - being in everyone’s best interests - that the basic needs of all are met. People living in extreme poverty and/or destitution and/or without immigration status in the United Kingdom and/or without access to the NHS are unable to socially isolate as needed, cannot access health care, and income and other social support, and cannot contribute openly and without fear, to making the population as safe as possible, alongside everyone else.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312998

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 3 April 2020
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