Gogglebox's Julie Malone reveals she's finally set to celebrate her eldest son Lee's wedding after he legally tied the knot during the Covid pandemic Victoria Prentis, the environment minister, has taken in Vika, a 25-year-old refugee, under an existing visitor visa programme. Mr Jenrick is thought to be the first MP to welcome a Ukrainian family under the new scheme. The MP said he is not sure how long his family would be staying as their father has remained in Ukraine to support the war effort, adding: ‘We want to support them for as long as they need it.’ He said the family would be living in their home in the town of Southwell admitting: ‘It will be a bit busy, because we have three children and two dogs… but it seems to be working so far.’ Mr Jenrick said: ‘It’s been very rewarding to see them feeling safe at last after a very traumatic experience and beginning to stabilise them and rebuild their lives.’ The Ukrainian family, who connected with the Jenricks through a friend, had spent seven hours queueing at the border to enter Poland before they could fly to the UK. He added that he was confident the country would eventually look back on the scheme ‘with pride’ as the Home Office was getting ‘over the bumps’ and the applications were being processed faster. ‘There are limits to the role of the state and as a country we have so much to offer when individuals and civil society come together,’ he said. ‘And I’m not sure whether you need to be doing checks on minors who are extremely unlikely to be a threat to this country.’īut Mr Jenrick said it was right that British hosts were tasked with matching with their own refugee families. ‘There were simple things that we could and should have done from the outset, like having the form in Ukrainian, for example. ‘I do think the process has been overly bureaucratic and I think the Home Office often falls into this trap,’ he added.
He also said the lengthy forms, which take refugees hours or even days to fill, should be completed in Ukrainian to speed up the operation. However, he insisted he had not pulled any strings to speed up the processing of his own application.īut Mr Jenrick did call on officials to stop forcing children to fill out separate applications to come to the UK. For us it took about three weeks to get all three visas approved.’
It has been a bumpy start, it has taken too long to get visas. Mr Jenrick told Chopper’s Politics, The Daily Telegraph’s podcast: ‘Truth be told. He admitted that Home Office red tape, which has seen the visa scheme blighted by shambolic delays, had ‘tested the patience’ of both sponsors and the refugees fleeing the war. The Conservative MP has three daughters, ten-year-old Marina, Sophia, eight, and Lila, six, with his wife Michal Berkner. I have to say they’ve been absolutely lovely to us and we’ve enjoyed it so far,’ he said. to leave home and come to another country in order to protect her children. ‘They are children of not dissimilar ages to ours, and a mother who’s left her husband back home and made this extraordinary decision. The former housing secretary, 40, said that he found it ‘emotional’ and ‘humbling’ when he finally met the refugees on Monday
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