The global competition to attract highly skilled workers fiercely continues regardless of where countries stand in relation to other forms of immigration and asylum. This is due to the estimates that in the years to come, serious skills shortages will be experienced. The…
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Report by Migrants’ Rights Network and Unis Resist Border Controls finds woeful lack of support for Tier 4 students during Covid-19 crisis
13 August 2020: Groups call for the Government to end no recourse to public funds provisions for international studentsDuncan Lewis: Lord Chancellor accepts that new legal aid scheme for immigration and asylum appeals was unlawful
11 August 2020: May's controversial Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 to be revokedHome Office suspends use of digital streaming tool for visa applications after legal action by JCWI and Foxglove
09 August 2020: Visa streaming process redesign will consider issues of unconscious bias and use of nationalityNew academic report examines UK policies for asylum seeker and refugee integration
05 August 2020: RESPOND project report finds UK's integration policies are reactive, non-interventionist and fragmentedGuest blog
An analysis of the changes to the Quebec migration law regarding highly skilled workers
Migrants and the global epidemic of human sex trafficking
The arrest of socialite and long-time Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell at the end of last month has revitalised anti-trafficking agendas in public and political spheres around the world. The chilling news of Jeffrey Epstein's international trafficking ring last year exposed a…
Immigration Bail policy found systemically unfair
In three conjoined judicial reviews concerning the legality of the Home Secretary's exercise of her power under paragraph 9 of Schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016 to provide accommodation to those who are granted immigration bail, Mr Justice Johnson held in R (Humnyntskyi) v…
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Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 918
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Ali (permission decisions: errors; slip rule) [2020] UKUT 00249 (IAC)
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R (on the application of BAA and Another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dublin III: judicial review; SoS's duties) [2020] UKUT 00227 (IAC)
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A (A Child) [2020] EWCA Civ 731
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Mahmood, R (on the application of) v Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) & Anor [2020] EWCA Civ 717
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Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
SI 2020 No. 515. Amends the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 and the provision made for Immigration and Asylum standard fees, by adding two fees to enable payment of remuneration by the Lord Chancellor to providers of civil legal services where the HM Courts & Tribunals…
Tribunal Procedure (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020
SI 2020 No. 416 (L. 11). These Rules make temporary amendments to the various rules which apply in the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal. Rule 10 amends the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014. Coming into force 10th April 2020.
National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
SI 2020 No. 59. These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 to insert coronavirus into Schedule 1 for diseases for which no charge is to be made for treatment. Coming into force 29th January 2020.
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