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UK eases visa route for Ukrainian refugees stuck in Calais
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PARIS, 11 March 2022, (TON): Ukrainians arriving in France’s English Channel port city of Calais with hopes of joining family in Britain can request visas at the local prefecture from Friday.
The structure was quickly set up by British authorities following complaints over treatment of stranded refugees.
The prefecture said in a statement “a British consular post was being set up at the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais region in nearby Arras.”
Ukrainians who fled the war with Russia in their homeland, arriving in Calais after long journeys, had previously been told to make their visa requests in Paris or Brussels, a policy French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said last Sunday was a bit inhumane.”
He urged Britain to “stop the technocratic nit-picking.
Several hundred Ukrainians have been turned back at British entry points in Calais in a situation the prefecture had described this week as “unrealistic.”
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