London 17 Oct (ANA) - Fourteen migrant children are due to arrive in the UK from Calais to be reunited with their relatives. They are among about 100 minors who will be brought over by the Home Office under a registration scheme before the Jungle camp is dismantled. They include Afghans, Syrians and stateless Bidun children who originated from Kuwait. An EU regulation allows them to seek UK asylum because they have close relatives living here. Under the rules, asylum claims must be made in the first safe country a person reaches, but children can have their claim transferred to another country if they have family members living there. UK law also requires the government to arrange for the transfer to the UK and support of unaccompanied refugee children from Europe. On arrival from the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, the children's first task will be to register with the Home Office in Croydon. Their families will be waiting for them in nearby churches that have been opened up to host the reunions. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is one of several religious leaders who will be there to meet them. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Lord Williams said the UK had a "basic moral imperative" to offer security to "deeply traumatised and deeply needy people". "We have the beginnings of some sort of response to what is still a hugely troubling and very troubling situation," he said.(ANA)

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