By Sarah Craig, Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet),
Language analysis is a tool used by Government decision-makers to "test" the credibility of an asylum seeker's claim, and to assess whether the applicant is being honest about the country they claim to be from. It involves the consideration of a recording of an asylum seeker…
The debate over immigration encapsulates all the stuff of politics: who we are as a country, how we see our economic prospects, our sense of entitlement and obligation, the purpose of public services and the broader welfare state. And while the subject is no longer taboo – if it…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) last week updated its Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan. EIN members can view a html copy of the guidelines here.
As reported by UNHCR in June, Afghanistan…
Navarathnam v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 2383 (QB)
There was no unfairness in the Secretary of State for the Home Department refusing a Sri Lankan asylum seeker leave to remain in the United Kingdom, despite the ruling from the Strasbourg court that to return…
The Guardian reported in June that Robert Winder's excellent 'Bloody Foreigners' has been revised and updated.
A compelling and level-headed account of immigration to Britain, the book was first published in 2004. And it was reviewed for EIN's Headlines publication in 2006, so it's a…
R (on the application of AA) (FC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2013] UKSC 49
The Immigration Act 1971, Schedule 2, paragraph 16(2) ("paragraph 16") empowers the Home Secretary, acting through immigration officers, to detain a person if…
By Sonia Moran, United Kingdom Educational Advisory Service,
In strong contrast to the previous Points Based System, the UK now requires a credibility interview for international students, citing a need to extend radically the border agency's interviewing programme.
The system was put into place following the results of a pilot interview…
Last week the campaign to end new rules on family migration took a major step forward with a debate in the House of Lords, followed by a significant judgment in the High Court.
Until last week, the government had apparently decided to face down the growing political and public concern…
The conference opened with a short but emotional speech from Alejandro Mayorkis, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). What struck me immediately was the warmth with which Director Mayorkis was welcomed and perceived by a room full of immigration lawyers. The son of…
12 June 2013 may go down in legal history. For it was the first time a national newspaper's main headline was about the launch of a legal textbook. In a paradoxical explosion of free publicity for said book, the Daily Express reported that a new online guide to European asylum and…
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