Immigration news
On 31 December 2020, the Brexit transition period ended and the UK left the EU’s internal market ending free movement of persons between the EU and the UK. EU citizens who had crossed the border before 1 January 2021 to build a life in the UK, even...
It’s been another week of grim headlines about the consequences of Brexit. It’s not just UK exporters who have been feeling the heat. The anxiety of some UK expats living in Spain reached fever pitch on Wednesday. March 31st saw the end of the...
The Home Office has signed up a legal agreement to address its failures to comply with equality law in the Windrush scandal. This came after the equalities watchdog ruled that the Government’s ‘hostile environment’ measure was...
The government has made ‘reckless’ orders to close down two of the country’s major refugee camps, potentially placing nearly half a million lives of refugees in Kenya at risk. In what by now some are calling a familiar move, the United...
Only 39% of EU national children in care or young adults who have recently left the system have applied for settled status, according to charity The Children’s Society. EU national children in care risk becoming undocumented in the UK’s...
New government proposals to reform age assessments for asylum-seeking children seriously risk them mistakenly being deemed to be adults. The plans would allow more invasive tests to be undertaken on children arriving in this country, and could...
The Home Office claims that under the New Plan for Immigration announced last week, serious criminals who ‘pretend’ to be victims of modern slavery in order to stay in the country will find it more difficult to abuse the system. In reality, however...
Last week, the Home Office found itself at the centre of scrutiny as a number of unusual expenses drew public attention. The department’s 2020 procurement card spending left many baffled as it became clear that extortionate payments had been...
Since leaving the EU at the start of the year, a clock has been ticking for many British citizens living in the EU who after this Wednesday will be at risk of becoming ‘undocumented migrants’ abroad liable to face fines or deportation. The changed...
Since the announcement from the Home Office this week regarding ‘the biggest asylum shake up this country has seen in decades’, human rights campaigners, immigration lawyers, and opposition politicians have widely criticised the lack of compassion...