Important updates to Home Office guidance for sponsor licence holders
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Updated Commons Library briefing on Home Secretary’s powers to deprive a person of British citizenship and withdraw passports
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Briefing looks at how the powers have changed over time and how their use has increased
Government announces new sanctions regime to combat organised immigration crime and reduce small boat crossings
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office will develop legislation for sanctions regime, and is working to deliver more returns arrangements
Minister unable to confirm timeline for resumption of Syrian asylum decisions
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Angela Eagle says Government will provide an update to Parliament 'as soon as possible'
Sponsor Licence Suspensions and Revocations Surge: What Businesses Need to Know
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Gavin Webster, Immtell
Study finds substandard and unsafe asylum accommodation puts mothers and babies at risk
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Dispersal asylum accommodation in Glasgow negatively impacts health, wellbeing, and safety of mothers and babies
FLEX report exposes systemic barriers preventing asylum seekers from accessing work in the UK
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Focus on Labour Exploitation finds path for asylum seekers to access work in the UK is narrow and obstructed
Do I need an ETA for entry into the UK? Essential information for travellers
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Javier Alvaro Culebras, Latitude Law
Refugee Council calls for more safe routes to the UK as Channel deaths reach record high
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At least 69 people died crossing the Channel in 2024, more than the 59 total deaths between 2019 and 2023
House of Commons Library releases updated briefing on UK’s immigration schemes for Afghans
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Helpful overview with latest details of progress and obstacles in Afghan resettlement to the UK
ECJ: A right of permanent residence may be acquired only through periods of residence which satisfy the conditions laid down by EU law
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Court of Justice of the European Union press release following the ruling in Joined Cases C-424/10 and C-425/10 on the periods of residence for non-Member State nationals
ECJ: An asylum seeker may not be transferred to a Member State where he risks being subjected to inhuman treatment
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Court of Justice of the European Union press release following the ruling in Joined Cases C-411/10 and C-493/10 on the transfer of asylum seekers to EU Member States
MPs debate deportation of foreign criminals after Sunday Times leaked report
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Questions asked in the Commons on the situation of foreign criminals awaiting deportation from the UK.
EU may reintroduce visas to stop flow of illegal immigrants
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SETimes reports that the EU may be in a "great hurry" to temporarily suspend the visa-free regime to Western Balkan states
Common rights and single work and residence permit for non-EU workers
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Third country migrants working legally within the EU will enjoy common rights under a new "single permit" law passed by the European Parliament