Petition Grant citizenship to asylum seekers living in the UK for more than 7 years

Asylum seekers living in the UK for more than 7 years with no criminal records should be given British citizenship considering their living conditions after repeated warnings from healthcare professionals & humanitarian groups specially during Covid-19.

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Asylum seekers do not have permission to work while awaiting a decision on their claim. They can end up living in squalid, unsafe slum housing conditions along with some facing racial & hate crime experiences. The long queues and long waiting hours at the reporting centre another factor in part of making life harder for them. A key concern highlighted is their mental health, with NGOs noting that asylum seekers are more likely to experience poor mental health than the local population.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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Date closed 9 September 2021
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