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Campsfield House Removal Centre Set To Close
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The Home office looks set to close Campsfield House, one of the immigration removal centres it currently operates. The decision has come after a barrage of condemnation from a variety of sources. The immigration...

 detention centre, which holds 282 detainees, has been the subject of intense criticism in the last few months. The British Red Cross called for a massive rethink and overhaul of the UK immigration detention...

Home Office: "the EU Settled Status Scheme works."
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A Home Office report insists that the EU Settled Status scheme works well, despite people with iPhones being unable to apply. Over the last three months, 1053 EU citizens living or working in Liverpool...

 took part in the ‘Private Beta 1’ test, where they used an early version of the system to apply for Settled Status. All completed their applications using a Home Office laptop, with support from UK Visas...

Immigration Minister issues “heartfelt apology” to Windrush migrants
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Caroline Nokes, immigration minister in the Home Office, has made a “heartfelt apology” to members of the Windrush generation at an event in South London. Nokes, who admitted she felt “ashamed” of how the...

 migrants had been treated by the Home Office, was at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton where several people told her their own personal experiences of the controversy earlier this year. In a heated...

Home Office issues apology to UK visa applicants forced to submit DNA samples
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Home secretary Sajid Javid has issued an apology to immigrants that wrongly faced demands for DNA testing as part of their UK visa application. People that are looking to settle and find work in the UK on the strength...

 of a family relationship can decide to submit DNA evidence to strengthen their application. However, in June the home secretary informed the House of Commons that in a number of UK visa applications...

Court of Appeal gives guidance on invalid applications
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In Kousar & Ors v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2462 (07 November 2018) Irwin LJ gave the judgment to which both Baker LJ and Lindblom LJ agreed. The judgment revolved around...

 whether the First-tier Tribunal had jurisdiction to hear the purported appeal against an invalid application. Kousar made two Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications for leave to remain. The first was deemed...

Home Office decision to embed staff in local authorities faces criticism
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Home office staff are being embedded within local councils and are sitting in on interviews with destitute migrant families, according to a recent report. The staff are allegedly gathering information on a variety...

 of subjects including the health condition of migrant families and how their children were conceived. Documents unearthed via a freedom of information request revealed that a total of ten London boroughs...

Three things graduate recruiters need to know about UK immigration
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As we move ever closer to the end of 2018, employers are starting to consider what they will do to succeed in 2019 and beyond. And, as part of that planning process, companies are currently putting considerable...

 effort into finalising their graduate programmes. But what do they need to consider? What are the key issues they need to keep in mind – both in terms of people from EU and non-EU countries – to...

How UK immigration detention compares to other countries
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A recent news story in The Guardian highlighted just how UK immigration detention compares to detention in Europe and elsewhere in the world. It may be surprising to learn the UK is the only EU member...

 state not to place limits on the amount of time people can be kept in detention. The UK’s immigration detention system is one of the largest in Europe, although countries like Australia and the United States...

Student's UK visa granted after media backlash
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The UK has granted a visa for a student to attend an academic conference after public and media outcry following an “absurd” case. Initially, two students from Amsterdam University, whose nationalities...

 are Bosnian and Turkish, had their applications rejected. One was late in submitting part of his paperwork, and the other’s student visa is expiring in December. There was a fear among immigration...

Home Office inquiry launched into conditions of UK detention centres
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The Home Office is to launch an investigation into allegations of abuse and mistreatment by immigration detention centre staff across the country following legal challenges from human rights groups. Allegations...

 have been made that guards in immigration detention centres are physically and/or verbally abusing detainees and that the needs of vulnerable people are being overlooked or mishandled by staff. One of the...

UK government proposes a single immigration system
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Immigration laws in the United Kingdom are set to change as the government focuses on offering those migrating from EU and non-EU countries the same rights. Previously, migrants from EU countries enjoyed the freedom...

 of movement in the UK similar to that of British citizens. However, a report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) whose recommendations seem to have been adopted by the government is likely to...

WHO protests about difficulty of obtaining UK visas for world leading scientists
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The World Health Organisation has spoken out after several leading academics were blocked from attending a Liverpool conference on healthcare research due to visa issues. The Global Symposium on Health Research...

 is said to be putting together a dossier of the immigration issues experienced by at least 10 of the 2,000+ delegates. According to press reports, some of the affected delegates had been asked to pay in...
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