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  • How to apply for immigration bail
  • New timeframes for consideration of asylum appeals now in force
  • Home Office policy refusing citizenship to refugees who entered the UK irregularly found lawful

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

How to apply for immigration bail

Every year, thousands of people are held in immigration detention while the Home Office decides their case or arranges their removal. Almost 23,000 people entered immigration deten...

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freemovement.org.uk /3 weeks ago

New timeframes for consideration of asylum appeals now in force

Sections 49 and 50 of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (Commencement No. 5) came into force on 12 August, inserting sections 86A and 86B into the Nationality, I...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Home Office policy refusing citizenship to refugees who entered the UK irregularly found lawful

The High Court has upheld the lawfulness of the Home Office policy on good character in naturalisation applications, in a challenge brought by a refugee who originally entered the...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Refugee families left in limbo as challenge to suspension of refugee family reunion route is dismissed

The challenge to the suspension of the refugee family reunion route, brought by Safe Passage International and three individual claimants (AXY, BSZ and ESH), was dismissed by the H...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 week ago

Latest immigration statistics: immigration, asylum and citizenship numbers all fall

The Home Office has published the latest quarterly immigration statistics, covering the year ending June 2026. It’s the same downward trends we’ve been seeing for the last year: Ch...

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theguardian.com /6 days ago

‘I would rather die than return to France’: the brutal reality of the UK’s one in, one out scheme

Aso and Baran fled Iran, crossed the Channel together and were both returned to France. After risking their lives to reach Britain again, the friends found themselves facing very d...

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theguardian.com /3 weeks ago

Thursday briefing: What happens after an asylum hotel closes?

In today’s newsletter: With more sites closed and more lives upended, a look at the rhetoric and reality of where asylum seekers should be housedGood morning. This week, immigratio...

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freemovement.org.uk /4 weeks ago

Why does a positive trafficking decision not automatically establish an asylum claim?

One misconception I come across as an immigration practitioner is that a positive trafficking decision under the National Referral Mechanism is enough to establish an asylum claim....

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Over 1,000 people seeking sanctuary convicted of illegal arrival in the UK

Since June 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has prosecuted over a thousand people seeking asylum in the UK for the offence of ‘illegal arrival’, which was introduced by th...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 week ago

Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #134

Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! The latest immigration statistics were released at the end of last week, and immigration, asylum and citizenship numbers are all dow...

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independent.ie /3 weeks ago

Asylum-seekers cannot insist on the religion or accent of an interpreter as complaints triple

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oxfordstudent.com /2 days ago

UK Government seeks urgent approval for 1,000+-person asylum residential near Bicester

On 2 September 2026, the Home Office submitted a formal urgent planning application to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, to accommodate up to 1,256 single...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #128

Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! Last week, the Home Secretary gave evidence to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee, defending the earned settlement proposals aga...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Job ad: Immigration Solicitor/Senior Caseworker

The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit at Islington Law Centre has a much-respected Immigration Team. We are a Peer Review category 1 Legal Aid Immigration provider and we h...

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illinoislawyernow.com /2 weeks ago

USCIS Can Now Send Asylum Seekers to Immigration Court Without an Interview

No Interview, No Hearing, No One Watching By Michael D. Baker Immigration Equality v. Mullin, No. 1:26-cv-02921 (D.D.C. filed Aug. 19, 2026). It challenges Affirmative Asylum Refer...

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aljazeera.com /4 days ago

Asylum seekers caught in US immigration crackdown

Dree Collopy argues it could make people who lawfully enter the US more vulnerable to arrest and deportation.

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freemovement.org.uk /2 weeks ago

Members podcast: How does the Law Society and its Immigration Law Committee contribute to the policy debate? With Zeena...

The immigration tribunal system is under mounting pressure, and the Immigration and Asylum Bill proposes an Independent Immigration Appeals Authority to take over appeals from the...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 week ago

Effective protection and option to relocate defeats certification challenge

An Indian asylum seeker whose account of the risk he faced changed significantly between his screening and substantive interviews still had his claim certified as clearly unfounded...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #129

Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! The Immigration and Asylum Bill passed its second reading last week by 264 votes to 90. The Bar Council is the latest to publish a s...

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rte.ie /3 weeks ago

Over 1,100 asylum applications processed under new Act

1,106 asylum applications were processed through the new screening system introduced under the International Protection Act in its first two months of operation.

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freemovement.org.uk /2 weeks ago

Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #133

Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! Last week, the Regulatory Policy Committee rated part of the Home Office’s impact assessment of the Immigration and Asylum Bill as ‘...

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freemovement.org.uk /3 weeks ago

Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #132

Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! Last week, the government announced the closure of 13 more asylum hotels, which according to the Home Office, saves £51 million. Few...

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oxfordmail.co.uk /2 weeks ago

Asylum seeker family loses legal challenge to stay in Oxford

A Kurdish Iraqi asylum-seeking family has lost a High Court bid to be rehoused in larger accommodation in Oxford, after a judge ruled the Home Office's duty is to prevent destituti...

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japantimes.co.jp /1 week ago

U.K. asylum system tests Burnham’s push for more public control

From processing new asylum seekers to deporting failed applicants, private firms play a dominant role in a system that cost an estimated $6.6 billion in 2024-25.

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