New streamlined asylum process

Quarterly immigration statistics released last week show the asylum backlog has hit a record high as 160,919 asylum seekers await an initial asylum decision, quadruple the number awaiting an initial decision at the end of 2019. In December 2022, follo ...

27th February 2023 By

Operation Warm Welcome cools: over 9,000 Afghans still in temporary accommodation

The fall of Kabul in August 2021 prompted an emergency evacuation of around 15,000 people eligible for repatriation or relocation in the UK. Within weeks, amid intense criticism of the UK government’s mishandling of the situation and leadership fail ...

16th January 2023 By

Analysis of the Country Policy and Information Note on blood feuds in Albania

In September 2022, the Home Office published a new Country Policy and Information Note (CPIN) on blood feuds in Albania. David Neale, legal researcher at Garden Court Chambers, has provided an in-depth review of the publication, which you can read her ...

7th December 2022 By

Home Office hotels not fit to house unaccompanied child asylum seekers

An inspection report examining the use of hotels for housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children has been published this week, but the findings make for unsettling reading. The report criticises the operation of what are effectively unregistered chi ...

21st October 2022 By