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Public Law Project begins judicial review over ‘discriminatory’ Home Office algorithm used to identify potential sham marriages

20 February 2023
Marriages involving Greeks, Bulgarians, Romanians and Albanians are disproportionately investigated, PLP says

University of Brighton report for Rainbow Migration finds that all LGBTQI+ people are at particular risk of harm in immigration detention

16 February 2023
LGBTQI+ people risk verbal and physical harm and are not protected by staff

New House of Commons Library briefing looks at inadmissibility rules for asylum claims

14 February 2023
Full text of 'Refusing to process asylum claims: the safe country and inadmissibility rules'

Home Office publishes assessments of the compliant/hostile environment immigration policy, JWCI calls it as a ‘watershed moment’ showing the policy is racist

13 February 2023
Four documents released, including equality impact assessment and review of internal data and processes

Academic report says UK’s failure to negotiate post-Brexit returns agreement is main reason for increase in asylum seekers making small boat crossings

10 February 2023
Thom Brooks: Government is repeating same old lines about stopping boats, unable to acknowledge failure of Brexit deal

International Rescue Committee calls on the UK to commit to resettle more refugees and to improve integration services for refugees

07 February 2023
New report recommends UK should set ambitious target of resettling at least 10,000 refugees per year

European Union Agency for Asylum publishes comprehensive new judicial analysis on qualification for international protection

06 February 2023
400-page analysis of Directive 2011/95/EU, better known as the qualification directive (recast)

New immigration legislation coming as Prime Minister promises ‘Stop The Boats Bill’ within weeks; Refugee Council notes majority crossing the Channel are refugees

02 February 2023
Sunak says new Bill will see people coming illegally to UK detained and removed

Collapse in new case referrals adds to woes for immigration and asylum legal aid providers in Wales

01 February 2023
Comprehensive new report by Jo Wilding on adequacy and availability of immigration legal advice services in Wales

University College London researchers find hostile environment policies disrupt the delivery of maternity care for refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants

30 January 2023
New academic report is the latest to document hostile environment harms

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