Welcome

Strangers into Citizens is a campaign by the UK’s largest civic alliance for a pathway into citizenship for long-term undocumented migrants. This “regularisation” or “conditional amnesty” would enable some 500,000 refused asylum seekers and visa overstayers to acquire legal status under our five-year criterion, endorsed by our leading supporter, London’s mayor, Boris Johnson.

Since launching the campaign in Autumn 2006, Strangers into Citizens has gained broad support from politicians, faith leaders, unions, business people and hundreds of small organisations up and down the UK, mobilising tens of thousands of people in two major rallies in central London (2007 and 2009). We have made the case in newspapers, radio and television; we have provoked debate in the media and in Parliament; and our campaign has led to crucial policy research.

We have won the argument — but not yet the politics. Help us.