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New reports find misuse of transit visas and confusion over immigration rules is leading to exploitation of migrant workers in UK fishing industry

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Date of publication

24 May 2022

Summary

University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab and International Transport Workers’ Federation detail abuse on UK vessels

Updated guidance on taking oral evidence from abroad issued by the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)

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Date of publication

17 May 2022

Summary

Full text of Presidential Guidance Note No 2 of 2022 on witnesses giving evidence from outside the UK

New practice statement by the President of the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) replaces all previous practice statements

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Date of publication

17 May 2022

Summary

Full text of Practice Statement No 1 of 2022 by Judge Michael Clements

Senior President of Tribunals issues new practice direction for the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)

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Date of publication

17 May 2022

Summary

Full text of Sir Keith Lindblom's new practice direction

Global Business Mobility Routes

Blog post

Date of publication

16 May 2022

Written by

Gemma Tracey, Latitude Law

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration publishes review of the Home Office’s use of hotels as contingency asylum accommodation

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Date of publication

16 May 2022

Summary

Report highlights pressures caused by Covid, small boat arrivals, and the asylum backlog

Dual national Pakistani killer who renounced British citizenship loses deportation battle in Court of Appeal

Blog post

Date of publication

13 May 2022

Written by

Asad Ali Khan

New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules introduces differentiated asylum system, makes amendments to humanitarian protection claims, imposes visa regime for El Salvador

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Date of publication

11 May 2022

Summary

27-page statement published, with some changes taking effect at 4pm today

Home Office publishes batch of important new documents with further details on policy of relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda

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Date of publication

10 May 2022

Summary

Updated guidance on inadmissibility, new equality analysis, and four new country information reports published

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

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Date of publication

09 May 2022

Summary

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

Some Refugees are Welcome, Others Not So Much - Revisiting the ‘Myth of Difference’

Blog post

Date of publication

06 May 2022

Written by

Jay Ramasubramanyam, Völkerrechtsblog

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

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Date of publication

04 May 2022

Summary

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

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Date of publication

03 May 2022

Summary

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

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Date of publication

27 April 2022

Summary

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

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

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Date of publication

26 April 2022

Summary

Bill sent back to the Commons tonight and promptly sent back to the Lords