pastafarian
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DC making announcement in commons at 15:30. If they are under this existing scheme, they have the right to stay for 5 years, after which they can apply to settle in the UK. But lots of mixed messages in the BBC story I read - DC refers to them as refugees, Yvette Cooper refers to them as migrants, so hopefully this announcement will make things clearer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34171148
From what i have read or heard i think coming into the UK on this scheme automatically grants refugee status,many of the most vulnerable in the camps will already have refugee status cards from the UN.Technically DC is right and Cooper is incorrect,doubt the people in the camps will be too concerned over who has got the language right or wrong though.