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Humans for Rights Network has published a new report “You can’t stay but you can’t go” – State violence at the UK-France border, evidencing the levels of violence perpetrated on people who are attempting to cross the border. The report notes that 2024 was the deadliest year ever at the...

8th December 2025
BY Sonia Lenegan

When clients come to us, a key part of our role, as immigration legal advisors and advocates, is to listen sensitively and carefully to them: to what they have to tell us and to the particular threads of their lives that are relevant to their legal claim. Equipped with this...

8th December 2025
BY Rachel Francis

Statement of changes HC877, of 11 March 2016, gave the Home Office yet another power to refuse applications for leave to enter or remain in the UK. For all applications made on or after 6 April 2016, having a “litigation debt” to the Home Office may be a ground for...

5th December 2025
BY Colin Yeo

The requirements for remaining in the UK under the Windrush scheme are outlined in the Home Office’s casework guidance. For the child of a Commonwealth citizen who was settled in the UK before 1 January 1971 the guidance requires that the applicant has been continuously resident in the UK since...

4th December 2025
BY Iain Halliday

The latest of the – apparently now annual – immigration and asylum Bills has completed its journey through parliament, as the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 received Royal Assent yesterday. You should read Colin’s write up of the Bill as first published here for an overview of the...

3rd December 2025
BY Sonia Lenegan
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