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Our October round up is here! Barry does the honours this time around with the statement of changes and Sonia foreshadows some bad news potentially coming next week. Barry shares an AI horror story that is really one for the ages (so far) after Sonia’s segment on the latest lawyers...

14th November 2025
BY Sonia Lenegan

A man who was granted indefinite leave to remain following Home Office failings on his case, and who subsequently naturalised as a British citizen, has lost his appeal against a deprivation decision made by the Home Office when they found out he had been using a false identity the whole...

13th November 2025
BY Sonia Lenegan

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission has dismissed a review of the refusal of a naturalisation application on good character grounds, based on the applicant’s previous involvement with a proscribed organisation. The case is AZ (Naturalisation: Substantive) [2025] UKSIAC SN/04/2024. Background AZ is a Turkish national of Kurdish origin. When he...

13th November 2025
BY Sonia Lenegan

I spent a week in Calais conducting interviews with people on the move as part of Refugee Action’s new research on asylum and racial justice. What I heard and saw from refugees camped in informal living sites is a testament to the centrality of racialisation to immigration practices. The dehumanising...

12th November 2025
BY Haleemah Alaydi

Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter!  Over the weekend the BBC reported that the Home Secretary will announce “a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system later this month”. We expect a policy paper from the Home Office shortly, but it was reported by the BBC that they are...

11th November 2025
BY Sonia Lenegan
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