3. If people are not forced to apply, will there be another Windrush?

During the Windrush scandal, those whose right to remain was under threat had legal status but were unable to evidence their rights, leaving them vulnerable to harmful hostile environment policies.   EU nationals and family members who do not apply under the EUSS will be left with no legal status whatsoever.   After the EUSS cut-off point far more people will fall out of status, with similarly devastating real-life consequences to those faced…

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YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2YKEXM-YQ People have always moved. Down the road. To the next town, to the nearest city. And yes, sometimes people move across a border, to another country. Sometimes we move because we choose to, and sometimes we move because we have no other choice. As any of the millions of British citizens living…

People move – 12 steps to a fairer immigration system

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Right to Rent open letter

Over 80 groups have written an open letter calling on MPs to scrap Right to Rent checks, a key plank of the Hostile Environment, and one which has been declared unlawful by the High Court following a claim brought by JCWI.  Read the full letter and take action.

Call for evidence – intervention in the case of The Secretary of State for the Home Department v K (a Child)

We have been granted permission to intervene before the Court of Appeal in The Secretary of State for the Home Department v K (a Child). This is the Secretary of State’s appeal against the High Court judgment, which held that section 50 (9A) of the British Nationality Act 1981 (‘BNA 1981’) is discriminatory and therefore…

Treating humans with humanity

  Most people in this country see themselves as compassionate and fair. People are appalled to see cruelty to others, including to migrants. Yet our immigration enforcement system treats people brutally: families are woken in the middle of the night by immigration raids, parents are taken away in front of their children. Others receive as…

Keeping families together

All our families belong together. And we all deserve the chance to live and grow old with the people we love. This doesn’t change if one of us happens to be from somewhere else. Many of us travel for work, for leisure or to study. Sometimes we fall in love across borders. Under the current…