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EASO launches online tool to help identify asylum seekers with special needs

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Date of publication

28 January 2016

Summary

New website to assist with identification of special needs in the asylum procedure and reception context

Supreme Court dismisses appeals by EU nationals against refusal of benefits

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Date of publication

27 January 2016

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Court rules refusal of income support and housing assistance to EU citizens was lawful

Home Office: New English language requirement for family route migrants

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Date of publication

25 January 2016

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Non-EEA national partners and parents to require level A2 English to qualify for further leave to remain

Tribunal orders that four Syrians living in Calais camp should be brought to UK

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Date of publication

21 January 2016

Summary

Immigration and Asylum Tribunal orders Home Office to hear asylum claims of four Syrians as Dublin system is not working

Migration Advisory Committee recommends higher salary thresholds for Tier 2 of the points-based system

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Date of publication

19 January 2016

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MAC releases review of Tier 2, recommends increase in salary threshold and charge of £1,000 per year per worker

Solicitors Regulation Authority releases report on quality of legal services for asylum seekers

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Date of publication

19 January 2016

Summary

SRA and Legal Ombudsman commission report to assess quality of legal advice provided to asylum seekers by solicitors

Law Society publishes comprehensive practice note on immigration judicial review

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Date of publication

18 January 2016

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Practice note provides Law Society's view of good practice for practitioners bringing immigration judicial review claims

Home Office releases Shaw review into the welfare of vulnerable persons in immigration detention

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Date of publication

14 January 2016

Summary

Stephen Shaw's comprehensive 349-page review of immigration detention published

Council of Europe: Asylum seekers returned to Hungary face human rights violations

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Date of publication

13 January 2016

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Commissioner for Human Rights says Hungary is not in compliance with international and European human rights standards

UK Visas and Immigration announces proposed immigration fees for 2016-17

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Date of publication

11 January 2016

Summary

New fees for visas, immigration and nationality applications published

House of Lords Constitution Committee concerned by elements of Immigration Bill 2015-16

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Date of publication

11 January 2016

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Committee concerned Bill does not properly define situation in which failed asylum seekers will lose Government support

Bail for Immigration Detainees releases unredacted Home Office country returns guidance

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Date of publication

06 January 2016

Summary

Country Returns Documentation Guide published following an appeal brought by BID to the First-tier Tribunal

International Development Committee publishes report on Syrian refugee crisis

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Date of publication

06 January 2016

Summary

Parliamentary committee commends UK's contribution to relief effort, calls for UK to take additional 3,000 refugee children

Law Society highlights statutory defences available to asylum seekers charged with document offences

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Date of publication

04 January 2016

Summary

New practice note to alert criminal practitioners to the statutory defences available to asylum seekers

NGOs call on David Cameron to do more to help refugees in 2016

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Date of publication

04 January 2016

Summary

Leading charities condemn British Government's response as "clearly inadequate"