Visiting Visas: The Epitome of the Home Office Hostile Environment
SNP MP Patrick Grady writing ahead of his House of Commons Adjournment debate lamented the huge number of visitor visas being turned down by…
The UK Immigration Health Surcharge has Doubled
The House of Commons has approved a government order to double the immigration health surcharge on every non-EU national from £200 to £400….
Of Relief From a Distance
The British government part-funds a network of 26 Libyan detention centres where child refugees are facing abuse and malnutrition. The centres are designed…
Asylum Seekers: Accommodation Report Plus Right to Work
The overdue report on accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK has found that many asylum seekers live in ‘damp, dirty, vermin-infested’ housing. David Bolt,…
Being Punished Twice for Same Crime
The Guardian reports that many people who arrived in the UK as children or young people live without any secure immigration status – even…
Sadiq Khan: Making Positive Case for Immigration
London mayor, Sadiq Khan, says he will never be embarrassed to make the positive case for immigration. London would not be London without the…
NHS and the Hostile Immigration Environment
The Guardian reports of a migrant cancer patient who died when she was denied treatment by the NHS. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust demanded a £30,000…
Xenophobia Sadly Is Still With Us
One would think the days of divisive, scaremongering, xenophobic rhetoric reporting rampart in the pro-Brexit newspapers which led to a spiral in racially motivated hate crime in…
Hostile Immigration Environment on Trial
The UK hostile immigration environment policies are leading to the deportation of people who ought to be given asylum to protect their human…