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Home Office announces new Immigration Rules changes for social care and agricultural visas in response to worker shortages caused by Covid and Brexit

27 December 2021
Care workers added to shortage occupation list, Seasonal Worker visa extended until end of 2024

Court of Appeal quashes convictions of asylum seekers found guilty of breaching immigration law for helping to steer boats across the Channel

22 December 2021
Lord Justice Edis says law was misunderstood when investigating, charging and prosecuting the cases

Comprehensive new House of Lords Library briefing looks at the amendments made to Nationality and Borders Bill during its passage through the Commons

22 December 2021
Full text of helpful briefing paper ahead of Lords debate on 5 January 2022

Home Office rejects calls for a firewall with police to prevent sharing data about victims of crime with insecure immigration status

20 December 2021
Review published in response to data-sharing complaint submitted by Liberty and Southall Black Sisters

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons finds asylum seekers arriving in Kent continue to be held in poor and unsatisfactory facilities

16 December 2021
Concerns raised in previous inspection in 2020 remain, and people are now being held longer

New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules clarifies rules concerning the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP)

14 December 2021
Brief new 11-page statement published, with changes taking effect from 4pm today

APPG on Immigration Detention releases its full, and highly critical, inquiry report into the use of sites such as Napier Barracks and Penally Camp for asylum accommodation

13 December 2021
Report details profound harm caused by prison-like and "fundamentally unsuitable" institutional accomodation

Home Office confirms it will not lift the ban that prevents asylum seekers from working

08 December 2021
Government responds to Lift the Ban coalition's campaign and 2018 report following a review

Nationality and Borders Bill heads for the Lords after passing its final third reading in the Commons

08 December 2021
By 298 votes to 231, MPs vote through the most significant overhaul of asylum system in decades

Parliamentary committee calls on Government to amend plans to scrap Cart judicial reviews, noting they provide important protection against legal errors by the immigration tribunal

07 December 2021
Cart JRs safeguard against serious human rights abuses or even death

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