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Yvette Cooper has temporarily suspended family reunion visas as she outlines her reforms to the asylum system.

The Home Secretary said: “We are bringing forward new immigration rules this week to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing dedicated refugee family reunion route, until the new framework is introduced refugees will be covered by the same family migration rules and conditions as everyone else.”

She said the current application system is currently “not sustainable” and had been “designed many years ago”.

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