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Home Office: Changes to immigration rules boost businesses and students

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Date of publication

14 March 2013

Summary

Home Office press release on the lastest changes to the immigration rules

Conservative MP tables amendments to Crime and Courts Bill to ensure easier deportation of foreign criminals

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13 March 2013

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Dominic Raab seeking to ensure that foreign criminals jailed for a year or more can be deported without claiming family and social ties under Article 8

Yvette Cooper outlines Labour's new approach to immigration

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07 March 2013

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Full text of Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's speech on immigration to the IPPR

Britain's top judge concerned by May's attack on immigration judges, cuts to legal aid

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05 March 2013

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Lord Neuberger says Home Secretary's comments were inappropriate and wrong, and says he fears cuts to legal aid could undermine the rule of law

UKBA: Revisions to the codes of practice for skilled migrant workers

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Date of publication

01 March 2013

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UKBA press release on the publication of a new statement of intent to help employers prepare for changes to the points-based system

Stephanie Harrison made QC, concerned by continued attacks on access to the law for refugees and migrants

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Date of publication

01 March 2013

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Garden Court's Harrison says appointment is recognition of the complexity and importance of the law relating to the treatment of refugees and migrants

Office for National Statistics finds significant drop in net migration

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Date of publication

28 February 2013

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Latest ONS figures show net migration drops by a third to 163,000 in the year ending June 2012

UKBA: New immigration fees proposed

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Date of publication

25 February 2013

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UKBA press release on proposed fee increases to take effect from 6 April 2013 for visa applications made overseas and applications made in the UK

Refugee Council: UK Border Agency putting health of mothers and babies at risk

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Date of publication

25 February 2013

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A new report by Maternity Action and Refugee Council says pregnant asylum seekers in the UK are are being separated from the specialist treatment and monitoring they need

ECJ opinion says state with most recent asylum application responsible for unaccompanied minors

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Date of publication

21 February 2013

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ECJ press release on Advocate General Cruz Villalón's opinion in the case of asylum applications made by three minors in the UK after previous claims in other states

ECJ opinion says state with most recent asylum application responsible for unaccompanied minors

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Date of publication

21 February 2013

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Full text of Court of Justice of the European Union press release

Lord Neuberger: Tomorrow's Lawyers Today – Today's Lawyers Tomorrow

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Date of publication

21 February 2013

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President of the Supreme Court speaks on change in the legal profession and its future

Home Secretary backs down in mental health court battle

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Date of publication

18 February 2013

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Mental health charity Mind says Home Secretary abandons appeal in the case of HA (Nigeria) on inhuman and degrading treatment in immigration detention

Home Secretary accuses immigration judges of ignoring Parliament's wishes in unprecedented attack

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Date of publication

18 February 2013

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Theresa May says some judges are failing to follow last year's guidance on Article 8 and the deportation of foreign criminals

Immigration minister authorises language analysis for Palestinian, Syrian & Kuwaiti asylum seekers

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Date of publication

15 February 2013

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Mark Harper authorises UKBA to use linguistic analysis for asylum seekers claiming to be of Palestinian national origin or Syrian or Kuwaiti nationality from 20 February