Meet the new tribunal, same as the old tribunal
The immigration tribunal consultation ignores the causes of delays and suggests little that cannot already be achieved within the existing system
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...but we got people instead. A newsletter and forum for discussion about immigration law and policy that goes beyond the headlines.
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Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse
Changing the rules for migrants already here is wrong and unfair but only affects a finite group of people. Extending default settlement to 10 years or more for everyone is a social policy disaster.
Student and work visa bans imposed on some countries to prevent asylum claims
Government attempts to address increase in asylum claims by those enter legally with visas
Labour's earned settlement proposals: destroying a British success story
The proposals confuse immigration policy with citizenship policy. They will harm not help integration.
You can't promote immigrant integration by making it harder
You might want workers but you get people
Yvette Cooper and Home Office immigration ministers cleared out in reshuffle
Asylum appeals and therefore asylum hotels are out of control
Settlement and citizenship in Labour's white paper
The proposals will make it harder, not easier, for migrants to integrate, with negative consequences for productivity, growth and the public purse
Why denying citizenship to refugees matters so much
It denies equality and integration. It means refugees can never be one of us.
Home Office is recruiting a Windrush Commissioner
But that's not actually what Wendy Williams' Windrush Lessons Learned Review recommended
New change to Home Office policy permanently blocks refugees from citizenship
Change is bad in principle and breaches the Refugee Convention