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University College London researchers find hostile environment policies disrupt the delivery of maternity care for refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants

30 January 2023
New academic report is the latest to document hostile environment harms

Updated House of Commons Library briefing on ‘safe and legal’ routes to the UK for refugees, asylum seekers and others seeking protection

27 January 2023
Overview of existing routes, including refugee resettlement programmes, refugee family reunion, and bespoke routes for certain nationalities

Upper Tribunal tries and fails to understand the meaning of ‘durable partner’ in ‘barely comprehensible’ part of Appendix EU of the Immigration Rules

24 January 2023
Paragraph (b)(ii)(bb)(aaa) of Annex 1 of Appendix EU leaves judges stumped

Immigration minister says Home Office aims to have 2,500 asylum caseworkers in place by August 2023

23 January 2023
Large increase planned to tackle backlog, up from just 597 caseworkers in 2019-20

New analysis finds UK workforce has fallen by 330,000 or 1% as post-Brexit immigration system has reduced labour supply

19 January 2023
UK in a Changing Europe publishes working paper by Professor Jonathan Portes and John Springford

Legal challenge over lawfulness of policy of relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda goes to Court of Appeal

16 January 2023
High Court grants individual claimants and Asylum Aid permission to appeal December's ruling

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration finds process for identifying vulnerable adults at risk in immigration detention is ineffective

16 January 2023
David Neal publishes final 'adults at risk' inspection as Home Secretary cancels the annual report

Independent scientific committee advising Home Office on methods for assessing age of asylum seekers recommends X-rays are limited and eventually eradicated in favour of MRI

11 January 2023
Report of the interim Age Estimation Science Advisory Committee is published

Comprehensive new review of civil legal aid announced, including immigration, but practitioner organisations warn timetable is too slow and action is needed now

10 January 2023
Tender for external analysis will be issued this month, final report expected next year

Research by the University of Hertfordshire for The Food Foundation highlights how migrants with no recourse to public funds are unable to afford a healthy diet

09 January 2023
Two recent reports find NRPF leads to protracted chronic food insecurity

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