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Following last week’s disaster within the Channel wherein six youngsters and a pregnant girl have been among the many dozen who misplaced their lives, everybody ought to read this article by a Syrian refugee within the UK highlighting the issues with the federal government’s strategy to those journeys. Crossings continued within the rapid aftermath of the deaths. Individuals merely don’t have viable options and we see time and time once more that those that do attempt to come to the UK utilizing supposedly accessible routes are subject to arbitrary and cruel refusals.
The Home of Lords Secondary Laws Scrutiny Committee has published a report bringing the not too long ago laid Illegal Migration Act 2023 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 to the eye of the Home, describing it as “lamentable that the Home Office put forward an Act of Parliament that it has simply not been able to implement”. The committee additionally rightly questions the quantity of public money that “has been wasted on efforts to implement the Act to date”.
Questions have been additionally requested about what the House Workplace was doing to mitigate the chance of elevated homelessness on account of elevated choice making. The response from the Home Office was primarily simply an evidence of the transfer on course of. On that time, Baroness Lister has launched a private members’ bill which might lengthen the transfer on interval to 56 days as an alternative of the present 28 days which is clearly not sufficient time for individuals to start out their new life.
In different information, the deadline to reply to the Impartial Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s inspection of charge waivers has been extended to 15 September 2024. Additionally final week, the government announced that plans to make use of RAF Scampton as asylum lodging have been dropped.
On Free Motion, in the present day is the final day to make the most of the early fowl low cost on the Mastering complex refugee family reunion cases webinar.
On the weblog, the most recent monthly podcast is out and we additionally printed a publish on making a no time limit application, designed to help those that want to hold out this extra step earlier than making use of for his or her eVisa. We coated an important update for those who sponsor skilled workers, regarding an error made within the March 2024 assertion of adjustments to the immigration guidelines, regarding the going charges for some roles.
In case you are not already conscious of the House Workplace’s ex gratia fee scheme then you must learn our updated post on when and how you can make a declare below that. In fact, getting money out of the House Workplace isn’t going to be easy, and final week the Parliamentary and Well being Ombudsman printed a report on how compensation is being wrongfully withheld from individuals making use of to the Windrush compensation scheme.
For all the pieces else on the weblog and elsewhere, learn on.
Cheers, Sonia
What we’re studying
Legal Action magazine – Authorized Motion Group, September
Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2024 – Refugee Survey Quarterly
UK Home Office plans overhaul of Secure English Language Testing – The Pie, 2 September
Refugee Paralympic Team leaves Paris with historic medals and lasting legacy – UNHCR, 7 September
Indonesian fruit-pickers say seasonal work in UK left them drowning in debt – Al Jazeera, 6 September
Number of seasonal workers seeking help after being sacked by UK farms doubles in past year – The Guardian, 8 September
Seasonal workers on British farms being given ‘unhealthy and dangerous’ accommodation – ITV Information, 5 September
01710-24 Full Fact v Daily Express – Impartial Press Requirements Organisation, 6 September
Firms fined thousands for employing illegal staff – BBC Information, 3 September
Home Office Spends Over Half A Billion Pounds On Temporary Staff In Two Years – PoliticsHome, 5 September
Labour piles £15m into deportation deals for small boat migrants in 11 countries – Impartial, 4 September
Labour’s ‘change of tone’ revives foreign students’ interest in UK universities – The Guardian, 7 September
