Windrush Lessons Learned Review

Briefing on the Windrush Lessons Learned Review Download the Briefing Overview  The Windrush Lessons Learned Review provides an excoriating critique of the culture and policy making systems of the Home Office, over several decades. It describes how the political impetus to reduce and impose greater control on immigration spiralled through increasingly draconian legislation and rules, with no institutional memory, while the impact on individuals…

COVID-19 Briefing to the Home Affairs Select Committee

Download the briefing Overview  The COVID-19 pandemic poses an immense threat to public health, and particularly to the health of vulnerable minorities including migrants. It also creates insurmountable obstacles to many migrants in complying with the conditions of their leave or of any application they need to make. The current state of affairs is highly dangerous, with many people at…

COVID-19 and Spouse/Partner visas

I’m concerned about meeting the Minimum Income Requirement to renew my / my partner’s visa For now, people who are already in the country and are applying for a new spouse visa, or for Indefinite Leave to Remain, will still have to meet the Minimum Income Requirement (MIR) as normal. Keeping this system in place…

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Draft Windrush Lessons Learned Report

JCWI Windrush Lessons Learned Report (Click here for pdf) This is JCWI’s response to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review. 

Coronavirus Bill 2020 Briefing

Windrush Lessons Learned Review published

The nation was shocked and appalled when the Windrush scandal hit the news in 2018. Rightly so, for what happened was the destruction of the lives of black Britons as a direct result of a Government policy.  The Windrush Lessons Learned Review puts beyond any doubt what we have said all along: that the Windrush…