The government’s reaction to a handful of migrants arriving on the UK’s southern shores over the festive period has revealed, once again, that the UK and EU asylum systems are out of touch with the reality of how and why people are moving. While we were pleased to hear that the Home Secretary had decided…
As most of us are excitedly counting down the days to Christmas and the New Year, it’s a countdown with little joy for thousands of international students wrongly accused of cheating on an English language test in 2014. For many of them, the arrival of 2019 only means one, devastating thing: five years living in…
Marrakesh is known mainly for its bustling markets, exquisite palaces and enchanting gardens. But from 4 to 11 December, the Moroccan city is playing host to the Global Forum on Migration and Development, an annual event that brings together hundreds of civil society organisations and government representatives to talk about the opportunities and challenges…
It’s pitch black, cold, raining. A small dinghy is being tossed around by the waves. Inside the boat are two families. One of the children is just a toddler – a dark-haired girl wearing a purple coat under her fluorescent orange life jacket. This isn’t the Mediterranean; it’s the English Channel. When the boats…
“We’ve got a deal!” the politicians cried. But there was little relief for the 3.6 million EU nationals in the UK. The several dozen pages in the draft withdrawal agreement referring to the rights of those EU nationals contain some troubling details. EU nationals who don’t have a job will have to prove they…
The NHS identity check system that forces thousands of patients to pay upfront costs for treatment is claiming its first victims – and unknown numbers of others are becoming trapped in a process devoid of common sense or compassion. And British citizens aren’t immune. Former British Army corporal Jellian Mitchell discovered that when her mother…
DNA testing in the UK immigration system is far more widely spread than has been reported. Many of our members who arrived in the UK as Syrian refugees and tried to bring their families to safety have had their suffering prolonged due to these expensive, unnecessary tests. A recent review revealed that the government unlawfully…
No, Minister, this scandal won’t go away. On 4 September Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes sat through a parliamentary debate on the ruined lives of tens of thousands of international students whose visas were cancelled four years ago because of allegations of cheating in a pre-university English-language test. After 4 years of the students fighting for…
Tens of thousands of international students who were wrongly accused of cheating and written off by the government have refused to disappear and are keeping alive the fight to clear their names at enormous cost to their own wellbeing. They are demanding their future back. This is why July 10 we are launching a campaign…
Future Windrush-type scandals can now be covered up thanks to the new two-tier system of human rights called the Data Protection Act. As of 25 May we no longer have the right to know what data the Home Office hold on us when it comes to immigration. From now on, groups like the Windrush victims…
