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Home Office building Marsham Street [Source: Wikipedia] [Credit: Steve Cadman cc-by-sa-2.0]

New Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules amends graduate route, Appendix FM and Part 8 family provisions

9 July 2026

39-page HC 259 published, making changes across a variety of routes on 30 July 2026 and 3 August 2026

Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre [Source: Wikipedia]

HMI Prisons finds immigration detention centres improve, but concerns over vulnerable detainees remain

9 July 2026

Latest annual report highlights persistent weaknesses in detention screening and in identifying and responding to vulnerability

ILPA warns new Independent Immigration Appeals Authority could undermine judicial independence and the rule of law

7 July 2026

Immigration Law Practitioners' Association firmly opposes proposal to replace First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)

New report examines how linguistic and cultural errors undermine justice in immigration tribunals

2 July 2026

Public Law Project finds interpretation errors and misunderstandings affect evidence, credibility and case outcomes

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Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals

By Mark Henderson & Rowena Moffatt of Doughty Street Chambers and Alison Pickup & Monika Nollet of Asylum Aid

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Moving the Goalposts, Then Replacing the Referee: Earned Settlement, the IIAA, and the Skilled Workers Caught in Between

By Zonglin Lyu, Skilled Worker Justice Alliance (SWJA)

1. On 30 June 2026, the Government introduced the Immigration and Asylum Bill and announced its centrepiece under a headline that repays careful reading: “New independent appeals body to speed up removals.” [1] The two…

The End of 5-Year ILR? ‘Earned Settlement’ Explained

By Adam Pipe

The new Immigration and Asylum Bill, a broken time machine

By Zoe Bantleman, University of Oxford and Alex Papasotiriou, Richmоnd Chambers

‘We all have our time machines, don’t we? Those that take us back are memories’, once wrote the science fiction novelist, H. G. Wells. [1]In the case of the Government, memories of the adjudicator system are insufficient.…

After the Lords Report: A Transitional Options Matrix for Existing Skilled Workers under Earned Settlement

By Zonglin Lyu, Skilled Worker Justice Alliance (SWJA)

1. In the final week of June, the settlement debate changed shape. The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee concluded its inquiry into settlement, citizenship and integration with a warning that applying longer…