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"We have journeys everyday to the UK in the back of the lorry” www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

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UK offer to negotiate youth mobility treaty with the EU, says Times (although it quotes UK government as denying it) - unlike EU proposal, UK position includes numbers cap, NHS surcharge, higher tuition fees and three years maximum (not four) www.thetimes.com/article/f5e7....

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How people aboard small boats in the English Channel get themselves picked up, according to the Marine Accident Investigation Branch www.gov.uk/maib-reports...

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"A government-funded advertising campaign depicts the UK as expensive, run-down and prejudiced – in a bid to dissuade Albanian migrants from coming to the country" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Change in British citizenship rules faces first legal challenge www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Help us improve how the Migration Observatory communicates its research by filling out our user survey! It takes just a couple of minutes We want to hear from anyone who uses or would like to use migration research, whether you're a specialist or not app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/mig...

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The Minister for Justice has said that chartered deportation flights from Ireland will commence later this year. http://jrnl.ie/6622272

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Wanted: Windrush Commissioner apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8500

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Interesting how little the number of skilled worker visas outside of health & care have fallen since Spring 2024, given substantial hike in salary thresholds Applications down 21% in May 2024-Jan 2025, compared to same period a year before

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Lifetime ban on citizenship (other than on an exceptional basis) for refugees who enter the UK illegally is compliant with the Refugee Convention obligation to facilitate citizenship for refugees, Home Office minister says hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0...

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"Close the borders" petition to Parliament attracts well over 200,000 signatures, meaning that MPs are likely to pick it up for debate in the coming weeks petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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NEW: Sir Matthew Rycroft is standing down as permanent secretary at the Home Office at the end of March. He has been in post since 2020 when he replaced Sir Philip Rutnam who resigned after a row with Priti Patel over bullying allegations.

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As the judgment says, the basis for granting this Gazan family the right to live in the UK was Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, not the Ukraine visa scheme. They just used the application form for the Ukraine scheme to lodge the Article 8 application - a procedural quirk.

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The Home Office have announced that the non-statutory inquiry into conditions at Manston between June and November 2022 will begin next month questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

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Top candidate for borders watchdog says he would commute from Finland news.sky.com/story/top-ca...

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Skilled Worker visa: "Many ‘middle-skilled’ jobs on eligible list may not be what people would consider critical roles, says Oxford academic" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Tomorrow's Telegraph front page: Court gives Gazans right to settle in the UK www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02... Refers to this recent Upper Tribunal judgment: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-202...

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Labour Together proposes an “Australian-style National Migration Plan” www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

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“Any person applying for citizenship from 10 February 2025, who previously entered the UK illegally will normally be refused, regardless of the time that has passed since the illegal entry took place”

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Sounds like the Home Secretary is keen for more employers to be prosecuted for hiring people with no right to work in the UK (see section 21 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/1...

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There’s an urgent question and a statement in the Commons today, so second reading of the Border Security bill will likely start between 5pm and 5.30pm.

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Some FOI wrangling suggests that 455 people were convicted between June 2022 and Dec 2024 of arriving in the UK illegally by small boat: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi.... Almost 100,000 people arrived by small boat in the same period.

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Our full briefing on the bill is now live. MPs are debating it on Monday 10 Feb.

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Inspirational story of highly-trained Hongkongers overcoming cultural differences to get new jobs in Britain. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 on.ft.com/3CBv45C

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New regulations will allow the Home Office to require fingerprints/photograph at the UK border as part of plans to explore passport-free travel in future publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

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“Immigrants should only be able to apply for British citizenship after being in the UK for 15 years rather than the current six, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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In case you missed it: Who is eligible and how to apply to the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme? | Sonia Lenegan https://freemovement.org.uk/who-is-eligible-and-how-to-apply-to-the-ukraine-permission-extension-scheme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-is-eligible-and-how-to-apply-to…

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Fees are set to rise later this year, including Certificates of Sponsorship (an electronic record that migrant workers use to apply for their entry visa to the UK), which will rise from £239 to £525.

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Parts of the Border Security Bill have nothing to do with small boats at all, except insofar as smuggling gangs might be up to other crimes

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Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2024-25 https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10185/

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Very happy to have contributed the chapter on migration with @msumption.bsky.social. We look at why migration reached historic highs post-Brexit and how new policies designed to restrict migration could affect businesses and universities.

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New from Free Movement: What is in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill? | Colin Yeo

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Second reading, when MPs debate the broad principles of the bill, will be on Monday 10 Feb. We will look to have a Commons Library briefing published on Thursday 6 Feb.

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I look forward to the valuable contribution of the political editors

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The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill is going to be introduced in the Commons tomorrow. Mean the second reading debate could be before the February recess commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/920...

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“This is the last time Trinity graduates will elect senators to the University of Dublin constituency”, which has been sending representatives to parliament in these islands since 1613 www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

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We are so back

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🚨 We are pleased to share that the Home Secretary has confirmed the govt will repeal Safety of Rwanda Act 2024, in response to our legal challenge to the Rwanda plan. While the Labour govt had already announced that no one would be sent to Rwanda, the Act remains on the statute books. 1/4

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It's almost a year since Settled started raising concerns about children in Ukraine who cannot legally join their parents here. We are grateful to the Independent for covering the latest impact: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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"The long-promised Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill will also include a new criminal offence that can be used to prosecute the person identified to be steering each small boat" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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UK population could rise by almost 5 million by 2032, assuming net migration - immigrants minus emigrants - of 340,000 a year after 2028, according to new official projections (which are not forecasts/predictions) www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

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