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New report highlights widespread poverty amongst refugees and asylum seekers
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North East Child Poverty Commission and the Regional Refugee Forum North East report says asylum seekers are a "forgotten poor"
Improvements Made in Handling of Legacy Asylum Cases but Further Work Required
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Independent Chief Inspector issues new report on the Home Office's progress made on legacy asylum and migration cases
Home Office to pilot immigration bond scheme... when the Lib Dems agree
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Visitors from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Ghana to pay bond from November under Home Office plans but Lib Dems yet to sign off the details
Home Office: Right of appeal for family visit visas abolished
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From today, there will be no right of appeal against the refusal of a family visit visa application, unless the appeal is on human rights or race discrimination grounds
MPs debate family migration rules
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Commons debate on the new family migration rules hears calls for their urgent review
President of the Supreme Court warns that new legal aid regime will drive out the best lawyers
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Full text of Lord Neuberger's speech to the Institute for Government
EC's 4th Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum reveals asylum up 10% in the EU
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European Commission's latest annual report on immigration and asylum in the EU finds 2012 saw a nearly 10% increase in the number of asylum applications
Medical Justice: Detaining migrant pregnant women seriously damages their health and puts their babies at risk
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New report exposes the "injustice and ineffectiveness of detaining pregnant women for immigration purposes"
In their best interests?
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Joint Committee on Human Rights publishes report on the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children in the United Kingdom
The serious lesson hiding behind the Express’s latest rights “outrage”
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Adam Wagner, UK Human Rights Blog
European Parliament adopts several measures that form the future Common European Asylum System
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Today's European Parliament vote is a crucial step towards a common system for handling asylum applications in the EU
Home Office announces changes to the Immigration Rules
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A number of minor changes to the Immigration Rules have been published which will come into force on 1 July 2013
ECtHR and EU Fundamental Rights Agency launch Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration
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New publication is a comprehensive guide to European law in the areas of asylum, borders and immigration, taking into account both ECtHR and ECJ case law
All Party Parliamentary Group on Migration publishes report on the impacts of new rules on family migration
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Report follows an inquiry which heard claims that the new rules were "tearing families apart" and had "unintended consequences" for high earning migrants