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Family From Gaza Settle In UK Following Ukraine Scheme Application: A Legal Loophole?
By Jasmine Theilgaard - Immigration Barrister

In This Article 1. Introduction: A Tribunal Decision at the Centre of Political Debate 2. The Appellants’ Background and Entry Clearance Application 3. Home Office Refusal: No Resettlement Route for Palestinians 4....

 First-Tier Tribunal: Recognising a Human Rights Claim 5. First-Tier Tribunal Decision: Balancing Family Life and Public Interest 6. Grounds of Appeal: Alleged Errors in the First-Tier Tribunal’s...

Home Secretary Criticised for “Compassion Quota” in Asylum Policy
By Richmond Chambers -

Theresa May is facing criticism for her plans to introduce what many critics are calling a “compassion quota” which offers the bare minimum protection to the vast majority of refugees. The policy,...

 which has been branded as the government’s strategy on asylum has been met with criticism by many. The policy states that only more of the most vulnerable refugees will only be resettled in Britain if that is...

European Parliament Calls for Urgent Measures to Save Lives
By Richmond Chambers -

Members of the European Parliament have voted on a resolution calling on the EU to do everything possible to prevent further loss of life at sea. MEPs have also called for a binding quota for distributing asylum...

 seekers among all EU countries, bigger contributions to resettlement programmes, better cooperation with third countries and tougher measures against people smugglers. The purpose of the resolution, which...

Lack of Antenatal Care for Pregnant Migrants
By Richmond Chambers -

Pregnant immigrants are failing to seek essential antenatal medical care in the UK because they are afraid of deportation or of running up debts they cannot repay, a recent report has claimed. The report, by medical...

 charity Doctors of the World UK, found that as many as two-thirds of pregnant women using its drop-in medical clinic in East London had not received any antenatal care before the second trimester of...

Asylum Support Rates: Home Office Defiant Despite High Court Ruling
By Richmond Chambers -

Despite a ruling from the High Court ordering the Government to review the asylum support rates, it has been announced by the Home Office that there will be no increase. In a recent case, Refugee Action, R v The...

 Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 1033 (Admin), the High Court held that a rational judgment could not have been made by the Home Secretary in setting the asylum support rates, because...

Amnesty report on the overturning of asylum decisions
By Richmond Chambers -

Amnesty International and the Still Human Still Here coalition have published a report looking at why so many initial asylum decisions – 25% – are overturned on appeal in the UK. The research assessed...

 50 randomly picked cases from four countries that had high rates of overturning on appeal – Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Syria and Iran. The researchers discovered that in 80% of these cases the asylum decision was...

Criticism of the Dublin Regulation
By Richmond Chambers -

On the 18th November 2013, the Dublin Regulation, which identifies which European State is responsible for deciding on an asylum application, celebrated its 10th anniversary. A comparative study on how...

 this Regulation is applied by States, entitled ‘The Dublin II Regulation: Lives on Hold’, has claimed that the Dublin system continues to fail both refugees and Member States. The report reveals the harsh...

Gay asylum seekers need greater legal protection
By Richmond Chambers -

There has been a call for greater protections for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) asylum seekers who, after facing extreme stigmatisation, isolation and physical and mental harm in their countries...

 of origin, are put under increasing pressure to ‘prove’ their sexual orientation. Delivering the 11th Annual Stonewall Lecture hosted by the Law Society, S Chelvan claimed that the UK has not...

Concerns over Border Agency backlog
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Affairs Committee has published its latest report on the work of the UK Border Agency, covering the second quarter of the year April– June 2012. The report highlights concerns over the growth in...

 the number of backlog cases the Agency is dealing with, which have increased by over 25,000 cases since the first quarter of this year. Other areas of concern include: New asylum cases The Committee doubts that...

Scottish asylum seekers left destitute
By Richmond Chambers -

Hundreds of asylum seekers in Scotland, including children and pregnant women, are being left completely destitute with no support and nowhere to live, and yet they have no way of returning home safely, according...

 to Scottish refugee charities. The claims by the Scottish Refugee Council and Refugee Survival Trust are based on new research by Glasgow Caledonian University’s Scottish Poverty Information Unit,...

Asylum in the EU27
By Richmond Chambers -

Recent data released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, has revealed that the number of asylum applicants registered in the EU27 rose to 301 000 in 2011.

 Recent data released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, has revealed that the number of asylum applicants registered in the EU27 rose to 301 000 in 2011.

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