JCWI’s Legal Policy Director, Chai Patel, describes how the current Government is perpetuating the days of ‘No Blacks, No Irish’ signs through the Right to Rent scheme, which forces ordinary landlords to check prospective tenants’ immigration system and creates border controls in our communities. JCWI is fighting this policy in the High Court. Click here…
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Zoe joined JCWI in 2018, joining the policy team. She is a researcher and grassroots campaigner on migrants’ rights in the UK and across Europe. She previously worked in communications and policy roles at Asylum Aid, the Race Equality Foundation and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles in Brussels.
This note is for people who want to apply to live in the UK as the spouse or partner of: a British citizen, someone settled in the UK (with indefinite leave to remain), or someone with UK refugee status. Click here to read the guide. It applies both to people who are not currently in…
Like many charities, we fund our work through a combination of membership fees, selling goods and services (merchandise, publications and training), donations from the general public and grants from trusts & foundations. We also have a contract with the Legal Aid Agency to provide immigration legal advice. You can learn more about our funding by…
Ellen studied law and gained experience working in asylum and immigration firms in Scotland before she started work at JCWI in 2016 She is an IASS level 2 accredited caseworker and trainee solicitor, supervised by Nicola Burgess. She has developed her practice in a wide range of areas including asylum, applications under the immigration rules…
Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens living in the UK have no guarantee that they will be able to stay, because the Government has broken its promise to give status to everyone who is not a serious criminal. New immigration rules that came into effect in August bar Home Office officials from granting settled status…
Over 3 million people currently reside in the UK under EU treaty rights. Many are long-term residents with jobs, homes and families here. Since the 2016 referendum, the future status of these individuals and their families has remained uncertain. The position of UK nationals residing elsewhere in the EU is similarly precarious. This 2017 briefing…
Brendan is a specialist in UK Immigration Law, and set up Beder-Harrison & Co in 1992. This followed him studying Comparative Immigration Law for his Master of Laws Degree at University College London, where he also undertook a specialist course in Law Lecturing. He lectured in Commercial Law whilst completing a B.A. and LL.B. Degree in…