MPs issue plea for Gaza biometric student visa deferral

More than 70 MPs are calling the government to postpone biometric checks for students of Gaza, who have secured a university place in the UK for the upcoming academic year.

For Brent West West Barry Gardiner, the MP wrote to the Sir Kir Stmper with Abatism Mohammed MP, who is co-chairman All-party parliamentary group for international students (APPG)Asking to allow biometric checking in Egypt or Jordan

Mr. Gardiner cited Hia Mohammed, who was honored Scholarship at Goldsmith UniversityOne of more than 80 students who could not record their data, because there is no visa application center in Gaza.

The home office said it was considering how it could support the best of the students.

The letter states: “Within the first 100 days of the war, every university in Gaza has been bombed, leaving more than 90,000 students without access to higher education.”

Referring to those with places in the UK University, he said: “We ask you to coordinate an immediate withdrawal route for this group of students who have lost everything, and yet have achieved scholarship for study, so that they can return to the rebuilding of Palestine for the future.”

He asked for a sharp response so that students could start the academic year in September.

A government spokesperson said: “We know about these students and are considering how we can support the best.

“Of course, the situation on the ground in Gaza makes it extremely challenging, but we are doing everything we can find to find a solution.”

On Thursday, Chhaya Home Secretary Chris Filp said that biometric checks for Ghazan students should be made in British consulates in Israel and argued that they were “an essential part of our security system”.

He said: “One reason [biometric checks] It is done then check the photograph and check the fingers mark against the various databases, “he said.

These include the details of those who are suspected of extremism, crimes of terrorism, or have already been removed from Britain or have been deported, they said.

He said, “There are many such security checks, which are done to ensure that the people coming to the UK are being properly vetured,” he said.

He argued that the students mentioned in the letter could use Tel Aviv and the British Embassy in Jerusalem or the British Consulate Office.

“I would ask that the Israeli government ensures that they arrange a safe route for those who do those checks to reach the British Consulate Office, before the journey, before the journey, Mr. Philp said.

Mr. Gardiner said that he was not asking to be sent with a check, but to postpone to Egypt or Jordan.

“The issue is that there is nowhere that they can be done in Gaza,” he said.

“We have disputed those checks for Ukraine students in a war situation, and other countries have also done it.

“It’s not saying that let’s let people with a doddy record come to the British people, this is just nonsense.”

The BBC has approached the University of Goldsmith for comments.