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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

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Date of publication

09 May 2022

Summary

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

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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

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

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Date of publication

26 April 2022

Summary

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

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

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Date of publication

25 April 2022

Summary

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

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Date of publication

20 April 2022

Summary

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

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Date of publication

19 April 2022

Summary

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

Government announces new migration partnership to enable asylum seekers who enter the UK without permission to be sent to Rwanda

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Date of publication

14 April 2022

Summary

Prime Minister announces major new asylum policy, acknowledges numerous challenges lie ahead in implementing it

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

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Date of publication

14 April 2022

Summary

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

MPs find Napier Barracks in Kent still fails to provide suitable accommodation for asylum seekers despite Home Office changes

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Date of publication

11 April 2022

Summary

Report on February visit to Napier by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Detention

Nationality and Borders Bill returns to Commons next week, House of Commons Library updates comprehensive briefing paper on Bill’s progress

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Date of publication

11 April 2022

Summary

MPs set to debate Lords' latest amendments next Wednesday with end of current parliamentary session looming

Public Law Project says use of secondary legislation to implement yesterday’s major changes for proving immigration status is inappropriate and democratically unacceptable

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Date of publication

07 April 2022

Summary

Home Office's online service must now be used to evidence right to work and right for all migrants

Peers require the Commons to think again as the Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill suffers fresh defeats on its return to the House of Lords today

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Date of publication

04 April 2022

Summary

Lords continue to vote to amend the Bill during ping pong with the Commons, with 12 defeats inflicted