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A letter sent to Priti Patel, seen exclusively by The Independent, has urged the Home Secretary not to implement plans that the government has described as ‘the biggest overhaul of the UK’s asylum system in decades’. The letter claims that the recently unveiled ‘New Plan for UK Immigration’ will have ‘devastating’ repercussions on women fleeing gender-based violence.     The letter described how women escaping ‘horrific’ abuse are already being failed by the current UK asyl...

Priti Patel’s proposed ‘New Plan for UK Immigration’ has been branded ‘vague, cruel, unworkable and potentially unlawful’ by immigration and human rights groups. The plan is currently under consultation and welcoming feedback, but activists have described the government consultation as ‘a sham’ and a ‘thinly-veiled public relations exercise’.   Pro-immigration and human rights campaigners have also claimed that the consultation is designed to ‘lead people to endorse the pro...

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has urged the UK Home Office to simplify ‘complicated and expensive legal routes to UK immigration’ in a new report. The call comes as Home Secretary, Priti Patel, presses ahead with her ‘New Plan on Immigration’, which seeks to restrict more existing routes to settlement in Britain.   According to the JCWI’s report, the UK immigration system ‘actively and needlessly creates insecurity, is extremely over-complicated and expensi...

Canadian provinces issued 3,625 invitations to apply for a provincial nomination for permanent residence last month.

A strategic advisor who formerly worked on Brexit negotiations claims that the launch of an exclusive UK visa for Hong Kong nationals could be ‘the making of post-Brexit Britain’. Johnny Luk told Al Jazeera that the UK has a ‘unique opportunity to demonstrate how it can lead on immigration policy’.    Since the turn of the year, UK immigration has fundamentally shifted. For some it has changed in way that not many people would have predicted. According to Luk, the UK was expected to �...

In a meeting scheduled for June 2021, the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee is set to question Cabinet Office Minister Lord Frost over the UK government’s failure to secure visa-free travel and Europe-wide work permits for UK musicians and their touring crew post-Brexit, according to an NME report.   In recent months, the government has come under heavy fire from high-profile artists and prominent producers across the music industry.  Pop icons, including Sir Elton J...

A UK immigration rule, paused for almost a year amid the coronavirus pandemic, will resume with immediate effect. The Home Office is set to restart the process of evicting some asylum seekers from their accommodation, according to an internal document seen by The Guardian. Charities and human rights campaigners have blasted the decision.   It’s understood that in the coming months the Home Office will target thousands of asylum seekers for eviction from their accommodation and removal from t...

In addition, the survey pays careful attention to the beliefs, attitudes, and experiences among foreign‐​born first‐​generation immigrants, immigrants’ American‐​born children identified in this report as second‐​generation immigrants, the grandchildren of immigrants identified as third‐​generation immigrants, and other native‐​born Americans for whom all grandparents were born in the United States. The survey included additional oversamples of Latino (N=300) and Asian...

Priti Patel’s UK immigration plans suffered a major blow recently as EU countries snubbed bilateral agreements with Britain to facilitate the deportation of refugees to Europe. New plans unveiled by the Home Secretary in March would see refugees arriving in the UK legally denied the automatic right to asylum.   Instead, the new measures would see those seeking asylum forcibly removed to safe countries that they had passed through on route to Britain, nations that are often in the European Un...

UK immigration staff are reporting that more than 100 people a day are trying to enter Britain with fake COVID-test certificates, according to the UK Immigration Services Union (ISU). During a parliamentary evidence session, UK Border Force personnel warned that it is ‘very easy’ to forge the documents – currently needed to enter the UK.   Under current rules, any person arriving in the UK must provide proof of a negative COVID-test before being allowed through UK immigration controls. T...