Response to consultation on Scotland's Human Rights Bill

October 2023 Introduction 1.   The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is an independent charity established in 1967. Our mission is to promote justice, fairness and equality in British immigration and asylum law and policy. We do this through a combination of policy research and advocacy, and legal casework and strategic litigation relating…

Fee Waivers: Law and Practice

Trainer: JCWI Level: Basic Aim of the webinar: The aim of the course is to equip solicitors, practitioners, caseworkers and advisors with an introductory/intermediate level of knowledge on the application process in relation to fee waivers, sufficient to give initial advice to clients making the application.  Objectives: By the end of the training, delegates will have a thorough…

Linny Venables

Latest Shape collaboration: Linny was shortlisted for the 2023 Emergent bursary with BALTIC and Shape Arts. Artist statement: Linny Venables is a visual artist based in Liverpool, working in sculpture, installation, curation and facilitation. Linny experiments with kiln-formed warm glass processes as a form of therapy. Slumping, extruding and manipulating glass in to fluid, colourful, slime like shapes. Follow Linny…

Capping routes to settlement at 5 years – joint briefing

Download the briefing September 2023 What’s the ask? Routes to settlement should be capped at five years maximum. To begin, we recommend parliamentarians commission an independent review of immigration policies and processes. What is ‘settlement’? This refers to permanent residence, or Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). People who are ‘settled’ in the UK can live,…

Capping routes to settlement at 5 years: one-pager

Download the one-pager December 2022 JCWI and Praxis’s joint policy one-pager on why we must cap routes to settlement at 5 years and abolish the lengthy and expensive 10-year route. What’s the ask? Everyone should be able to access settlement after 5 years’ documented residence. What is ‘settlement’? This refers to permanent residence, or Indefinite…