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Doctors of the World UK and University of Birmingham: Asylum seekers housed in temporary accommodation are not receiving adequate and appropriate healthcare

09 May 2022
Report concludes contingency asylum accommodation is unsafe and is leaving people without treatment

Migrant Voice: UK’s extortionate visa fees are ruining the lives of too many people

04 May 2022
Report finds burden of paying high visa fees leads to debt, stress and health problems

Government to face multiple legal challenges over lawfulness of new policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

03 May 2022
Detention Action, Care4Calais, Freedom from Torture, and Open Rights Group among the challengers

Nationality and Borders Bill passes Parliament and will become law as Labour peers decide it would not be appropriate for the House of Lords to attempt a fourth defeat

27 April 2022
Bill successfully passes through Parliament today and will shortly receive royal assent

New Medical Justice report finds Home Office safeguarding mechanisms within immigration removal centres are flawed, ineffective and harmful

26 April 2022
Analysis identifies failures at all levels of safeguarding process and across the detention estate

House of Lords defeats the Nationality and Borders Bill yet again, Lord Pannick says Government is defying credulity to assert the Bill does not breach the Refugee Convection

26 April 2022
Bill sent back to the Commons tonight and promptly sent back to the Lords

Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) delivers latest verdict on TOEIC scandal, finds evidence of widespread cheating is overwhelming and reliable

25 April 2022
New decision departs from SM and Qadir and concludes Secretary of State's evidence is 'amply sufficient'

Government successfully rejects latest Lords amendments of the Nationality and Borders Bill as it returns to the House of Commons for a second time

20 April 2022
Ping pong continues and the Bill will now return to the House of Lords on Tuesday, 26 April

Work and Pensions Select Committee publishes report examining effects of ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy on children living in poverty

19 April 2022
Parliamentary committee hears harrowing testimony of struggles to afford food and necessities

Migrants’ Rights Network publishes practical new guide on carrying out right to work checks

14 April 2022
Easy-to-follow guidance produced with the support of the Trades Union Congress

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