Personal Immigration
Business Immigration
About Us
LATEST NEWS:
Client Success: Overcoming Tax Challenges to Secure British Citizenship Continuous Residence: Calculating Absences for ILR Applications Family From Gaza Settle In UK Following Ukraine Scheme Application: A Legal Loophole? Streamlined Asylum Process for Children: Eligibility & Key Updates Multiple Nationality and Multiple Citizenship (Including Dual Nationality and Dual Citizenship) Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) Requirement for European Visitors to the UK from 2 April 2025 Private Life Exception to Deportation: Domestic Framework Insights Domestic Deportation Framework: Key Provisions & Considerations Client Success: British Citizenship for a Child Approaching Adulthood Is Your Child Eligible for British Citizenship?

Please filter our resources:

LOCATION: Home » Windrush

KNOWLEDGE
CENTRE

A Guide to Making a Windrush Scheme Application
By Richmond Chambers -

The Windrush scheme was enacted against the backdrop of the Windrush scandal and therefore, to understand why the current scheme exists, who it aims to help and what issues it seeks to resolve, an...

 understanding of the legal and historical background might be helpful. A detailed look at the history behind the Windrush scandal is largely beyond the scope of this article and, in any event, has been explored in detail...

Windrush Lessons Learned Review - Has Progress Been Made?
By Richmond Chambers -

In March 2020, Wendy Williams conducted a review of the Home Office’s workings, and failings, in the wake of the Windrush Scandal. This review called for significant reform by making 30 recommendations...

 to the Home Office that could be distilled into 3 main objectives. Williams wrote as follows: “…the Home Office must acknowledge the wrong which has been done; it must open itself up to greater external...

UK to pay compensation to victims of Windrush scandal
By Richmond Chambers -

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...

Immigration Minister issues “heartfelt apology” to Windrush migrants
By Richmond Chambers -

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...

Windrush: Three people have died before repatriation
By Richmond Chambers -

The Windrush scandal continues as it was recently announced by the Jamaican foreign minister that at least three people wrongly deported to the Caribbean have died before being given the chance to return to the...

 UK. The situation, described as “unfortunate” by the foreign minister Kamina Johnson-Smith, was discovered after the British Home Office asked the Jamaican foreign ministry for help with finding 13...

Home Secretary forced to make apology to Windrush migrants
By Richmond Chambers -

Home Secretary Sajid Javid was forced into an embarrassing apology yesterday after it emerged that up to 164 members of the Windrush generation had been illegally detained or deported from the UK. Javid’s mea...

 culpa was directed towards 18 of the migrants who had been subject to the worst treatment. Seven were detained by immigration officers, while 11 were forcibly removed. The Home Office has committed to...

More than 60 displaced in the Windrush Scandal
By Richmond Chambers -

New numbers have come to light in the ongoing Windrush scandal with the newly appointed home secretary, Sajid Javid, revealing that 63 people have been wrongfully removed or deported from the UK. In his first appearance...

 before the Home Affairs Select Committee since his appointment last month, Mr Javid has also told MPs that this number is subject to change as his department and other officials continue reviewing...

New home secretary gives pledge to Windrush generation
By Richmond Chambers -

Former home secretary Amber Rudd has recently been replaced by Sajid Javid following the immigration scandal that has rocked parliament. Javid has since pledged his commitment to “do right” by those of...

 the Windrush generation – immigrants who have been affected by the recent issues in proving their legal status as UK citizens. The new home secretary issued a statement on Monday April 30 where he...

Government issues guidance for undocumented Commonwealth citizens
By Richmond Chambers -

Following a statement to parliament on 23 April 2018 by Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and intense media scrutiny, the Home office has issued guidance to all Commonwealth citizens who are long-term residents of the...

 UK and are currently without appropriate documentation to prove their status. During the statement, Amber Rudd also announced the Home Office will be putting in place lasting measures for those of the...

DOWNLOAD OUR
BROCHURE

Expert advice & representation from immigration barristers that you can rely on.

Google+ - Five Stars

Read the 600+ five out of five star Google reviews of our immigration barristers.

More
AWARDS