To mark 20 years since the Touquet Agreements between the UK and France, the Crossborder Forum has launched the English translations of two key reports by Pierre Bonnevalle and Marta Lotto February 2023 marks 20 years since the French and British governments set in stone the externalisation of British border controls into the north of…
Download the one-pager What are routes to regularisation? Pathways to secure immigration status for undocumented people. What is the ask? Everyone living in the UK must have rights, safety and dignity. We need straightforward and affordable measures to protect people from becoming undocumented and make it possible for undocumented migrants to rebuild their lives here.…
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…
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is an independent national charity established in 1967. We work to ensure justice and fairness in immigration and asylum law and policy and we provide direct legal advice and assistance to those affected by UK immigration control. In the last three years we have undergone a…
We are delighted to welcome members of JCWI to our Annual General Meeting, on 21 February 2023. This meeting has been rescheduled from its original planned date in December. Agenda 6.15: Welcome Formal business Paper: Election / Voting rules 1. Apologies 2. Approval of Minutes of AGM 2021 Paper: Minutes of AGM 2021 3. JCWI Audited…
Members of the Executive Committee seeking re-election David James David is the CFO of Pembridge Resources plc and a Chartered Accountant, having qualified with KPMG in 1995. David has had a varied career including time spent in Budapest, Hungary and in blue chip multinational groups, followed by 10 years running his own business as a…
Nadia is the Media and Communications Manager at JCWI, Prior to this she worked in campaigns at international NGO, ActionAid, in philanthropy where she ran an education programme for grant-makers, and as an organiser for a grassroots anti-racism charity. She has volunteered for a number of migrant rights charities in the UK and the Middle…
Mary is Campaigns and Networks Managers at JCWI, focusing on supporting the movement to end the Hostile Environment. Prior to this, she worked as a freelance journalist in Colombia, where she also supported destitute Venezuelan migrants. Before moving to Colombia, she worked as a news editor with a focus on migration, volunteered with people in…