Shortly after it acquired Royal Assent final yr, the Illegal Migration Act 2023 was described as “utterly unworkable and extortionately expensive”, “deeply unethical” and “a traffickers’ charter”. Regardless of these feedback by the shadow Immigration Minister, Labour has not committed to repealing the Unlawful Migration Act. Nonetheless I’m hopefully not being too optimistic in assuming
By Anna Bregstein – Pupil Immigration Barrister 03 Jun 2024 After months of what’s often called parliamentary ‘ping pong’, the third modification to the Security of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Invoice (hereafter ‘the Bill’) was rejected by the Home of Commons, resolving the impasse between the Homes. The most recent amendments would have required the
After over two and a half years of kids being held in inhumane situations on Diego Garcia, the Supreme Courtroom of the British Indian Ocean Territories has dominated that key safeguarding provisions of the 1989 Youngsters Act apply to the territories. Background In September 2021, a bunch of Tamil asylum seekers had fled Sri Lanka
The House Workplace has revealed statistics for the interval January to March 2024 exhibiting a marked drop within the grant fee for asylum instances, tens of hundreds of EU Settlement Scheme functions rejected as invalid, and a charge waiver backlog that appears to be quickly spiralling uncontrolled. My full write up is under and the
I’ve set out beneath what the authorized course of is for sending an individual to Rwanda following the Security of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024, which acquired Royal Assent on 25 April and came into force the same day. I’ve regarded solely on the legislation because it presently stands, this excludes a lot of
Though now largely eclipsed by the Unlawful Migration Act 2023, the Nationality and Borders Act 2022’s legacy can be its criminalisation of the act of in search of asylum within the UK. This text goals to provide an summary of the adjustments to the regulation. Entry vs arrival By the use of background, virtually all