After 10,000 people signed our petition calling for the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) visa condition to be scrapped, the government was obliged to respond. No Recourse to Public Funds leaves migrants with no safety net, makes families homeless, traps women with violent partners and leaves children hungry. Attempting to justify it is defending the indefensible.…
Priti Patel is drawing up new plans for the immigration system which turn back the clock, tearing up refugee law that has been in place since the UK signed up to the Refugee Convention in 1951. Join us to campaign against these plans What are Priti Patel’s plans for the immigration system? Inventing a distinction…
A huge, huge thank you to everyone who donated to the Windrush Winter Emergency Appeal! An incredible £70,000 has been donated to support members of the Windrush generation who are still struggling, three years after the Windrush scandal first hit the headlines. Thousands of members of the Windrush generation are still waiting for the money they…
In response to media reports that Priti Patel is proposing sending asylum seekers abroad to process their claims, Minnie Rahman, Campaigns Director at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said: “The UK has had a firm commitment to the refugee convention since it was created and Priti Patel now intends to turn back…
Home Office application fees are extremely expensive. If you’re already in the UK and applying for leave to remain, you’ll usually have to pay around £2593 per person, upfront, to apply – this is a huge amount of money to have to save every 30 months. However, if you’re in the UK and making an…
Today, on Thursday 11th March the High Court will hold its first hearing over JCWI’s case that the Home Office’s EU Settlement Scheme will leave minorities and vulnerable groups undocumented and violates the Equality Act. The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is taking legal action to require the Home Secretary to put in place essential safeguards to prevent the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) leaving tens of thousands…
We also want to raise money for a charity that helps asylum seekers and refugees, as she centered her dissertation around this topic. Darcy wanted to bring awareness to this issue of media perception of refugees and the difficulties faced by asylum seekers. Although Darcy passed away from complications relating to her benign brain tumor,…
Cecilia completed her degree in Law and Politics at Lancaster University and went on to work as a paralegal at a Law Centre. Following her LPC LLM at University of Law, she worked as a paralegal in a private firm until joining JCWI as a trainee solicitor in January 2021. Cecilia is Level 2 IAAS…