Landworkers' Alliance Report: Debt, Migration, and Exploitation

JCWI contributed to a collaborative report with The Landworkers’ Alliance, Focus on Labour Exploitation, The New Economics Foundation, Sustain, and a farmworker solidarity network which highlights working conditions under the Seasonal Worker Visa in UK horticulture. “It is migrant farmworkers who experience the agroindustrial system’s worst injustices.” Download the report from The Landworkers’ Alliance This report…

Joint briefing: fee increases for Home Office immigration and nationality applications

Download PDF Who we are We are writing as a group of 14 organisations working on migrants’ rights and migration issues, to provide evidence of our concerns about the latest Home Office immigration and nationality fee increases (Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023). The latest fee increase From 4 October 2023, increased…

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,…

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…