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The Home Office has toughened up existing guidance to make it nearly impossible for refugees to become British citizens if they travel to the UK by small boat.
This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them a route to become a British citizen.
This is refusing citizenship to someone who has permission to stay indefinitely because of risk of harm. They aren't awful. They are stateless and... voiceless.
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