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Safety concerns in UK immigration detention centres
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A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Home Office has revealed that inmates within UK immigration detention centres are being admitted to hospital at the rate of almost one per day. This has...

 sparked fresh concern over the safety of those who have fallen foul of UK immigration laws and found themselves being held in an immigration detention centre. These detainees are often at their most vulnerable, with...

Chancellor's Spring Statement indicates greater flexibility for PhD level migrants
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The Spring Statement from Chancellor Philip Hammond on 13 March 2019 provides good indications that UK visa Tier 2 worker applications for jobs at PhD levels will be removed from the cap. Many experts feel this...

 is a promising indication that the government are starting to address the current skills gap in the UK. What was announced about Tier 2 visas in the Spring Statement? The Chancellor’s statement made it...

UK to pay compensation to victims of Windrush scandal
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The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid has announced that the UK will pay up to £200 million in compensation to victims of the Windrush scandal. A fund has been established to cover these compensation payments to those...

 who were mistakenly classed as illegal immigrants despite being long-standing British citizens. The compensation will serve, in some small way to right the wrongs that victims of the Windrush generation...

MP committee concludes that UK government has totally failed on immigration detention
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An all-party parliamentary committee reported on 21 March that the UK Home Office is “careless and cavalier” in its approach towards UK immigration. This has resulted in a number of immigrants...

 being detained wrongfully. About the report on migrant detentions in the UK  The report from the Home Affairs Select Committee stated there were very serious failings in just about all areas of the UK’s...

Changes to the Business Immigration Rules
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The UK government has made some changes to its Business Immigration Rules and states these change will help crack down on any abuse of the system while also indicating the UK’s commitment to bringing in top talent. What...

 are the Business Immigration Rule changes? The changes to Business Immigration Rules have provided two new routes for applicants seeking visas to start up businesses in the UK. The new Start-Up...

Home Office 'reckless' with detainment
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The Home Affairs Select Committee have released a highly critical report into the detention of immigrants as managed by the Home Office. They state that the government department has a ‘reckless’ attitude...

 towards the detainment of immigrants and that this has led to people being wrongfully detained. The report found that there are issues with almost every part of the detention process and that the Home...

The refugee family reunification bill
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MPs last week called on the home secretary Sajid Javid to pass the bill for refugee family reunification. The bill, which would relax some of the obstructive rules around family reunification, has been waiting...

 to pass into law for a year. What does the law say about refugee family reunification at the moment? Currently, UK immigration rules prevent adult refugees from submitting applications for parents,...

Visa and deportation fears for Commonwealth military veterans
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Every year several hundred Commonwealth personnel are discharged from the British armed forces and immediately become subject to UK immigration controls (from which they have been exempt whilst serving). Any individual...

 who has served in the British military for more than four years can apply for indefinite leave to remain afterwards, but the process is made extremely challenging by the fact that it is currently not...

High Court blocks policy on removing immigrants without warning
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Dozens of people have been given a reprieve from being forced to leave the UK after the High Court ordered a suspension of the removal policy used by the Home Office following a challenge by an immigration charity. Campaign...

 group Medical Justice applied for an interim injunction to bring a halt to the “removals window”, a controversial deportation policy which enables the Home Office to refuse a migrant’s case...

Further embedded Home Office immigration check staff scrapped
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Labour councils across the UK are beginning to remove Home Office immigration officers which have previously been “embedded” among local authorities. The move comes after calls from councillors to stop creating...

 hostile environments for migrants. Embedded Home Office officials typically sit in on meetings arranged between councils and vulnerable migrants. This is to ensure the Home Office can keep track of each...

Apology issued to woman refused help under Windrush scheme
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Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, has issued an apology to Willow Sims after she was incorrectly informed that she was not eligible for help in proving her status from the Windrush Taskforce team. The lawyer working...

 on compensation claims for victims of the Windrush scandal asked the Government to urgently clarify which group of people the Windrush Taskforce will assist after they wrongly informed Ms Sims that she...

UK immigration legal aid to get additional money after cuts
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The UK government has announced additional money for the legal aid system in an attempt to help those who cannot afford legal representation. The pledge comes after an anticipated review into legal aid cuts made...

 by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government. In April 2013, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into force, and with few exceptions, it removed legal aid...
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