The Home Office's treatment of requests for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and vulnerable adults to be reunited with their family members in the UK is unlawful.

Their recently published policy document on how to process family reunification requests is a huge threat to the rights of refugees in Europe.

In their new policy: 

• The Home Office are not doing their part to establish whether family members are related;

• They are telling decision-makers that when they fail to properly consider a child’s case in time, they should refuse it in order to avoid responsibility;

• They are not adhering to the UK’s human rights obligations; and

• They are failing at their duty to consider the best interests of the child.

Most importantly, the new policy will lead to the Home Office making wrong decisions, putting vulnerable children’s lives at risks.

That's why we're taking the Home Office to court - we're calling for a judicial review to prove that their policy is unlawful and that it must be withdrawn.

We need your help to raise £17,500 to cover the Home Office fees in case we lose. Without that money, we won't be able to fight the judicial review and the rights of unaccompanied child refugees will be put at risk.

Help fight for the rights of refugees to be reunited with their family. In the case of the judicial review being successful, all funds raised will go to our core work of protecting safe and legal routes to sanctuary.