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 expensive, while also leaving people trapped in limbo.’
The JCWI said: “Migrants are considered temporary for a decade and our research shows that people are forced to reapply for the right to remain in their homes and jobs every 30 months, at a cost of thousands of pounds per person each time.”
THOUSANDS of people are at risk of becoming “illegal” immigrants in the UK as the deadline approaches for them to register with the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), immigration experts and charities have said. The warning came with the deadline just two months away, amid claims many of its repercussions are hidden. A conference on the EUSS, organised by the charity Work Rights Centre (WoRC), heard it had received hundreds of queries about the scheme and its impact on people’s employment prospects. WoRC director Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol said the issues with the process were twofold: “The digital nature of the EUSS poses real difficulties for a significant minority of EU nationals.
ABOUT 200 organisations have united in attacking the government’s consultation on changes to its refugee policy, branding the exercise a sham.
Refugee Action, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), the Scottish Refugee Council, Detention Action, Freedom from Torture and others said that ministers’ attempts to gain feedback on the “vague, unworkable, cruel and potentially unlawful” plans are no more than a thinly veiled public relations exercise.
On March 23, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced changes to the treatment of refugees seeking safety in Britain, including deportation to third countries, holding refugees in warehouse-style “reception centres” and forcing people to reapply for protection every 30 months.
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Almost 200 organisations have branded a government consultation on fundamental changes to refugee policy âa shamâ.
A total of 192 refugee, human rights, legal and faith groups have signed a public statement condemning the six-week consultation on the governmentâs New Plan for Immigration as âvague, unworkable, cruel and potentially unlawfulâ.
The Home Office states that the consultation, which ends on 6 May, is about plans to make the asylum and immigration system fairer and more efficient, to deter illegal entry and to enable the government to more easily remove people they say have no right to be in the UK.
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