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Watchdogs warn Nationality and Borders Bill will reduce protection for victims of human trafficking and modern slavery
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Concerns raised by Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
Home Office announces new Immigration Rules changes for social care and agricultural visas in response to worker shortages caused by Covid and Brexit
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Care workers added to shortage occupation list, Seasonal Worker visa extended until end of 2024
Comprehensive new House of Lords Library briefing looks at the amendments made to Nationality and Borders Bill during its passage through the Commons
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Full text of helpful briefing paper ahead of Lords debate on 5 January 2022
Court of Appeal quashes convictions of asylum seekers found guilty of breaching immigration law for helping to steer boats across the Channel
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Lord Justice Edis says law was misunderstood when investigating, charging and prosecuting the cases
Article 3 in expulsion of mentally ill individuals: risk of harm to others insufficient to engage protection
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Charlotte Gilmartin, UK Human Rights Blog
Home Office rejects calls for a firewall with police to prevent sharing data about victims of crime with insecure immigration status
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Review published in response to data-sharing complaint submitted by Liberty and Southall Black Sisters
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons finds asylum seekers arriving in Kent continue to be held in poor and unsatisfactory facilities
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Concerns raised in previous inspection in 2020 remain, and people are now being held longer
New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules clarifies rules concerning the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP)
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Brief new 11-page statement published, with changes taking effect from 4pm today
Court of Appeal Revisits "Unduly Harsh" Test
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Wendy Barnes, Richmond Chambers
APPG on Immigration Detention releases its full, and highly critical, inquiry report into the use of sites such as Napier Barracks and Penally Camp for asylum accommodation
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Report details profound harm caused by prison-like and "fundamentally unsuitable" institutional accomodation
Nationality and Borders Bill heads for the Lords after passing its final third reading in the Commons
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By 298 votes to 231, MPs vote through the most significant overhaul of asylum system in decades
Home Office confirms it will not lift the ban that prevents asylum seekers from working
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Government responds to Lift the Ban coalition's campaign and 2018 report following a review
Parliamentary committee calls on Government to amend plans to scrap Cart judicial reviews, noting they provide important protection against legal errors by the immigration tribunal
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Cart JRs safeguard against serious human rights abuses or even death
US Woman Wins Deportation Appeal Having Lived in the UK for 53 Years
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Amar Ali, Reiss Edwards