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Young Legal Aid Lawyers finds victims of trafficking are denied justice due to market failure in the immigration and asylum legal aid sector

Mon, 22 June 2020: Report says victims of trafficking are incurring debt and returning to exploitation in order to pay for legal representation

National Audit Office report looks at the work of the Home Office's Immigration Enforcement directorate

Fri, 19 June 2020: NAO: No estimate of irregular population and no specific evidence that hostile environment works

Freedom from Torture says Home Office’s ‘culture of disbelief’ permeates asylum interviews and is failing survivors of torture

Wed, 17 June 2020: Report examines experiences of torture survivors at the interview stage and finds asylum system plagued by prejudgement

Home Affairs Committee examines Home Office's handing of visas and immigration during Covid-19 pandemic

Tue, 16 June 2020: New report calls for 'no recourse to public funds' to be temporarily lifted

First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) issues new practice statement on arrangements during the Covid-19 pandemic

Thu, 11 June 2020: Mr Michael Clements releases Presidential Practice Statement No 2 of 2020

Home Office coronavirus immigration guidance updated for those applying to enter or remain on the basis of family or private life

Tue, 9 June 2020: Loss of earnings caused by pandemic will be taken into account for minimum income requirement for partner visas

Charities concerned by impact of Covid-19 lockdown on young people with irregular migration status and young asylum seekers

Tue, 9 June 2020: Sudden reduction in support exposes youngsters to real risk of significant danger and exploitation

Medact, Migrants Organise and New Economics Foundation find hostile environment policies impede migrants’ access to healthcare during coronavirus crisis

Sun, 7 June 2020: Report says hostile environment likely to have contributed to disproportionate Covid-19 BAME deaths

Notice to EIN members: Search fix and enhancements

Fri, 5 June 2020: Brief technical information notice for EIN members on bug fix for single character searches and improvement of search word stemming

Refugee Women Connect examines impact of Covid-19 on migrant survivors of gender-based violence; Bail for Immigration Detainees looks at detention decision-making during the pandemic

Tue, 2 June 2020: Two new reports consider the consequences of coronavirus on migrants

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Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals, 2020 Edition
The current electronic version of the BPG by Mark Henderson, Rowena Moffatt and Alison Pickup freely available on EIN

ILPA + EIN Directory of experts
The ILPA Directory of Experts on Countries of Origin on the EIN public site

The financial (minimum income) requirement for partner visas
House of Commons Library report on the minimum income threshold in the Immigration Rules, November 2017

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