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High Court finds detained fast track system breaches the rights of potential victims of trafficking

21 July 2015
Home Office concedes that it was acting incompatibly with its legal duties when subjecting individuals with clear indicators of trafficking to the fast track process

House of Commons Library updates briefing on the financial (minimum income) requirement for partner visas

20 July 2015
Updated briefing on Immigration Rules' income threshold as Supreme Court set to hear the appeal in MM and Others in early 2016

Home Offices announces changes to Tier 1 Investor and Entrepreneur visa application requirements to target foreign criminals

20 July 2015
Tier 1 visa applicants to be required to produce overseas criminal record certificate for every country they have lived in for the past 10 years

Asylum support payments for families set to be reduced

16 July 2015
All asylum seekers, whether adults or children, will receive a payment of £36.95 from 10 August

Theresa May announces new measures to make Calais more secure

15 July 2015
Government to build "secure zone" in Calais for British-bound lorries in response to the increasing numbers of migrants

High Court finds the Exceptional Case Funding scheme is operating unlawfully

15 July 2015
Mr Justice Collins says Legal Aid Agency's Exceptional Case Funding scheme is unlawful and causing suffering in a way that Parliament cannot have intended

New Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules to tackle abuse in Tier 4 student visa system

13 July 2015
Students wishing to stay on in Britain and work will be required to first leave the country, students at publicly funded colleges will be prevented from working

British Red Cross calls for legal aid to be made available in refugee family reunion

09 July 2015
New report says family reunion is not a straightforward process and the lack of legal aid is keeping loved ones apart

European Asylum Support Office releases annual report on asylum in the EU

08 July 2015
EASO says 2014 saw more than 660,000 applications for international protection in the EU, the highest since data collection began

Garden Court: Yet another court ruling finds the detained fast track process unlawful

03 July 2015
High Court rules Home Office acted unlawfully by failing to identify vulnerable asylum seekers not suitable for the fast track process

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