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Mixed reactions to Priti Patel’s appointment as Home Secretary
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The appointment of Priti Patel to the position of Home Secretary has elicited both fanfares and commotion among various factions. The committed free marketer and ardent supporter of Brexit previously declared...

controversial support on sensitive issues in criminal justice. She famously supported the death penalty and at one time was forced to resign from the cabinet after engaging the Israeli government in...

UK to launch fast track visa for scientists and researchers
By Richmond Chambers -

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced on Thursday, 8 August 2019 that UK visa systems will be amended to attract more top scientists into the UK. The UK Home Office, the Department for Business, Energy and...

Industrial Strategy, and the Immigration Department have been instructed to work out a fast-track system for visas so the scheme can be up and running in the shortest possible time. How will the fast-track...

Home Office faces backlash over immigration detention
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Office has been widely criticised by various groups over immigration detention without time limits. The department has, for a long time, refused to introduce a specific time limit for immigration detention....

The government has rejected calls and proposals to end the indefinite incarceration of UK immigrants. It argues that it would severely constrain efforts aimed at ensuring effective control of...

Latest government plans on immigration set to be 'devastating'
By Richmond Chambers -

They say that a week is a long time in politics, but given that the outspoken Boris Johnson is now the Prime Minister, those weeks could very well start to feel a little longer. Johnson has been creating headlines...

for years with his unusual metaphors, but now that he finds himself at the head of the government, it is quickly becoming clear that his words now carry more weight. And that’s especially true with...

“Fairly liberal” Johnson set to ditch immigration targets
By Richmond Chambers -

With Home Office minister Kit Malthouse describing his new boss as “fairly liberal” in his approach to UK immigration, all the signs suggest Boris Johnson will scrap the pledge first made by David Cameron and...

repeated by Theresa May to limit immigration to the UK to tens of thousands. That target has never come close to being met with the new prime minister’s spokesman suggesting Johnson isn’t “interested...

Africans most likely to be denied UK visas
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African visitors to the UK are twice as likely to be denied a visa than applicants from other parts of the world according to a cross-party inquiry. Research by the all-party parliamentary group for Africa found...

that in the two years to September 2018, over a quarter of African visa requests were rejected compared with a total average refusal rate of just 12%. The figures raise fresh concerns around discrimination...

Next PM will likely ditch UK immigration target, but what comes next?
By Richmond Chambers -

Two former immigration ministers along with an influential think tank have renewed calls on Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to ditch the UK’s immigration target, which has not been met in nearly a decade. With both...

hopefuls for the conservative leadership already committed to abolishing the policy, which was repeatedly included in Tory manifestos and which Theresa May refused to budge from, it now seems inevitable...

NRPF impacts on the lives of children
By Richmond Chambers -

An immigration law – no recourse to public funds – that denies the children of some UK immigrants access to basic support has left them facing dire consequences and is leading to malnourishment, sickness...

and a range of mental health problems, according to a new report by the charity Unity Project. “No recourse to public funds (NRPF) is a condition imposed on someone due to their immigration...

Home Office challenged by human rights reports
By Richmond Chambers -

Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has expressed concerns over tests the Home Office applies to children of foreign nationality. Children as young as 10 years old who have lived in the UK their...

whole lives were denied British citizenship on account of the “good character” test conducted by the Home Office. David Bolt, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, concluded in a...

Unprecedented immigration case could open door to removal challenges
By Richmond Chambers -

A High Court ruling that a gay Ugandan woman was wrongly removed and should return to the UK could open the door to thousands of similar claims. The Home Office has said it will challenge the unprecedented verdict...

after a judge in PN v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 1616 (Admin) (24 June 2019) ruled that the decision to reject the woman’s claim for asylum was unlawful. The court...

Boris Johnson considers Australian-style Points Based System
By Richmond Chambers -

Boris Johnson, one of the two remaining candidates in the ongoing Conservative Party leadership race, recently stated that he would consider introducing an Australian-style points based system. Speaking about...

the topic of UK immigration, he said, “What I would like to do is get the Migration Advisory Committee to look really properly at the Australian-style points-based system.” This was also a prominent...

Scrapping visa fees for Commonwealth veterans
By Richmond Chambers -

To remain or not to remain Soldiers from across the Commonwealth are feeling the financial pinch of choosing to remain in the UK after their service has ended. There are currently over 6,000 recruits from countries...

including India, Canada, and Australia; they are not subject to immigration controls while serving in the UK Forces, but this exemption ends once they are discharged. Commonwealth veterans who have served...
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