It’s no secret that the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, wants to shake up what she’s called a broken asylum system. Details about what she has in mind are due to be published next week. Speculation is rife and concern at fever pitch over reported plans...
The Home Office has announced new roles added to the Shortage Occupation List to fill gaps in healthcare services. The Shortage Occupation List details jobs in short supply across the UK. As Brexit has caused a large exodus of foreign workers with...
A toxic combination of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic is putting the rights of some EU workers to continue living in the UK at risk. When the UK was part of the EU, freedom of movement was simple. That meant that even though there may well...
Yesterday The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) published a report regarding the detrimental effects of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy on migrants during the pandemic. The report outlines the disadvantages migrants face and...
The Latin American community in the UK is disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, amid mounting concerns of their access to the vaccine rollout, a new Indo-American Refugee Migrant Organisation (IRMO) report has found. It is estimated that around a...
Recent investigations, carried out by ITV and the Observer exposed serious cases of neglect and abuse in government accommodation which houses asylum seekers. As the claims brought to light urge the Home Office to investigate, the focus is being...
A decision against the £1012 fee for registering for child citizenship has today been upheld and ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal. Two judges ruled that the fees were set by the government ‘without consideration of the best interests of...
The pandemic has affected many aspects of the UK’s policy-making process and has made collecting accurate data almost impossible. Uncertainty surrounding migration data is at its worst as the ongoing pandemic has limited the usual avenues of...
Reports have resurfaced from 2014 concluding Napier barracks ‘did not meet acceptable standards of accommodation’ even then and marked for demolition. Calls to close the barracks housing people seeking asylum on grounds of human rights and public...
Two events happened last week which demonstrate the extent to which the government either ignores or fails to understand the level of anger that institutional racism generates in the UK along with distrust for criminal justice. The first was a vigil...