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New Immigration Advice Authority guidance document consolidates adviser registration information
16 July 2026
Single document published after feedback indicated advisers found it difficult to locate the right information
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Bar Council warns against Government plan to replace judge-led immigration appeals system as Immigration Bill passes second reading
14 July 2026
Barristers’ body says no convincing justification to allow non-legally qualified people to determine appeals
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APPGs warn immigration policies and proposals, including longer settlement routes, risk increasing hardship for migrants and refugees
13 July 2026
New report on effects of recent changes to immigration and asylum policy on poverty and inequality
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BID research reveals immigration detainees held for months after bail is granted due to accommodation delays
10 July 2026
Report by Bail for Immigration Detainees details widespread failures in post-detention accommodation systems
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
Guest blog
How the British press has undermined the ECHR over many years: new study
The UK's immigration and asylum bill has proposed restricting how the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is interpreted and applied in the UK to make it easier to deport migrants.
For years, critics have argued that…
Moving the Goalposts, Then Replacing the Referee: Earned Settlement, the IIAA, and the Skilled Workers Caught in Between
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
The new Immigration and Asylum Bill, a broken time machine
‘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.…
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Key case law
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Dabo [2026] EWCA Civ 907
Court of Appeal
EXR, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No.2) [2026] EWHC 1726 (Admin)
High Court (Administrative Court)
AYA & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWHC 1742 (Admin)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v CP [2026] EWCA Civ 892
Court of Appeal
Key country reports
Uganda: Military Seizing Government Critics
Human Rights Watch
"Security" without rights: Impact of mass arbitrary arrests and denial of due process on the potential commission of crimes against humanity in El Salvador
Amnesty International
COI Report - Syria: Country Focus (July 2026) [2. Treatment of certain profiles and groups of the population]
European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)
The West Bank: UNRWA's ability to deliver services in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
Danish Immigration Service / Danish Refugee Council
Key legislation
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2026
SI 2026 No. 683. These Regulations bring into force section 48 (extension of prohibition on employment to other working…
Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
SI 2026 No. 700. These Regulations amend the immigration status checks employers, landlords and agents must carry out to…
Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
SI 2026 No. 499. This instrument amends regulation 6 of the 2005 Regulations to allow the Secretary of State to continue…