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Revealed: asylum seeker children face welfare lottery on arrival in Britain

By Joanna Wilding, University of Brighton via The Conversation, 28 September 2015
As the refugee crisis continues to dominate headlines around the world, local authorities in Britain are in dispute with the government over the funding they receive for the care of unaccompanied children seeking asylum. They have understandable concerns – rules designed to protect…

Right to reside – Carry on as before?

By Nearly Legal, 21 September 2015
Following hard on the heels of J's excellent post on the Immigration Bill, we now have further discussion of the EU right to reside rules by the CJEU in Jobcenter Berlin Neukolln v Alimanovic Case C-67/14 (to which I might say, good luck landlords). To say that the EU right to reside…

Inconsistency in asylum appeal adjudication

By Nick Gill, Rebecca Rotter, Andrew Burridge, Melanie Griffiths and Jennifer Allsopp, 08 September 2015
From the September 2015 issue of Forced Migration Review: New research findings indicate that factors such as the gender of the judge and of the appellant, and where the appellant lives, are influencing asylum appeal adjudication. There is a widespread, and growing, expectation that no…

Supreme Court: a right to a student loan?

By David Hart QC, UK Human Rights Blog, 10 August 2015
R (Tigere) v. Secretary of State for Business [2015] UKSC 57, 29 July 2015 Ms Tigere is 20. She arrived in the UK from Zambia when she was 6. She did very well at school. In 2013, she applied for a student loan to fund a university place. The current English system does not allow her to…

'Is this really Europe?': refugees in Calais speak of desperate conditions

By Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee and Surindar Dhesi, The Conversation, 31 July 2015
As the sun sets on Calais, a new barbed wire fence glints in the evening light, casting a shadow over the growing migrant camp known as the "New Jungle". Through the thick undergrowth of what was once an industrial dumping ground, tents and tarpaulin structures stretch into the distance.…

Health and education industries to be hit by new immigration rules

By Immigration Advice Service (IAS), 23 July 2015
On 6 April 2016 non-EU migrants who have spent more than five years working in the country will face deportation if they are not earning £35,000 per year or more. The new pay threshold will be applicable to persons wishing to stay in the UK permanently by applying for Indefinite Leave to…

Supreme Court: 'Ravichandran is Sound'

By Asad Ali Khan, United Kingdom Immigration Law Blog, 14 July 2015
"Aur Sardar Khan tum ko asylum mil giya kya (did you get your asylum Sardar Khan)?" I ask the young Peshawari Afghan butcher in the Iranian north London supermarket. "Haan Khan akhirkaar mil giya (yes I finally did)" grins the beaming teenager as if he had won the lottery. Yet referring…
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