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
Home Affairs Select Committee releases latest report on the work of the Home Office's Immigration Directorates
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Committee Chairman, Keith Vaz, says immigration system has "left A&E and has entered intensive care"
ECJ: UK rules requiring visas for non-EU family members of EU citizens travelling to UK infringe EU law
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Court of Justice of the European Union releases judgment in McCarthy and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department
International Migrants Day Statement
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Guy Ryder, ILO, and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, OHCHR
Detention Action: Court of Appeal rules policy of detaining asylum seekers for 'quick processing' of their appeals is not lawful
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Court finds Home Office policy on detaining asylum seekers during their appeals is not sufficiently clear and transparent
Ed Miliband says Labour will "control immigration with fair rules"
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Labour leader uses speech in Great Yarmouth to outline party's approach to immigration ahead of next year's election