UK election 2019: how the main parties compare on immigration
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Notice for EIN members: Membership rates as from 1 January 2020
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Brief notice on EIN's new prices which will take effect from next year
Two recent EU reports look at asylum procedures for children and integration for child refugees
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New reports from European Asylum Support Office and European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Freedom from Torture says Supreme Court judgment on false imprisonment of asylum seekers is scathing indictment of Home Office practices
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Significant ruling finds those detained up to March 2017 for Dublin III removal were unlawfully detained
Case Preview: DN (Rwanda): Lumba and Sequential Decisions
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Eleanor Mitchell, UK Supreme Court Blog
Latest ONS statistics show EU net migration falling and non-EU net migration rising to give broadly stable overall figure
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Net migration to the UK in the year ending June 2019 estimated at 212,000
Migrant Voice survey finds a significant number of people experience problems applying to the EU Settlement Scheme
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Report finds concerns over difficulty of applying and negative impact it has on health and wellbeing
Conservative manifesto pledges an Australian-style points-based immigration system with more controls to reduce numbers and attract the “best and brightest”
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Manifesto policies include a "firmer and fairer" system, new visa routes, an increase in cost of health surcharge
Labour manifesto promises to end hostile environment and establish a humane immigration system built on human rights that meets UK’s skills shortages
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Immigration policies include ending indefinite detention and scrapping the 2014 Immigration Act
Liberal Democrats manifesto policies include retaining free movement, scrapping the hostile environment and introducing a time limit on immigration detention
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Lib Dems say immigration system in desperate need of reform and promise a fair system that works for everyone
Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee publishes report on the human cost of irregular migration
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Report warns a focus on closing borders will drive migrants to take more dangerous routes, and push them into the hands of criminal groups
Refugee groups bitterly disappointed after Scottish Court of Session rules Serco's policy of evicting refused asylum seekers is lawful
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Groups warn several hundred people at risk of summary eviction following ruling in Ali v Serco
Garden Court Chambers announces the death of Ian Macdonald QC
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Garden Court mourns the loss of a trailblazer in immigration and human rights law who inspired generations of barristers
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants is seeking survey responses from practitioners who represent or advise undocumented migrants
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Short survey aims to help inform project looking at how best to advocate for new and better paths to regularisation
Vietnam’s Human Trafficking Problem Is Too Big to Ignore
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Thoi Nguyen