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Background
The rights of undocumented people living in the UK will be the subject of a Westminster Hall debate on 19 July 2021. Over 102,000 people have signed a Parliamentary e-petition advocating for the rights of undocumented people living in the UK. This briefing details how the immigration system itself causes individuals to become undocumented, highlights the current lack of accessible routes to regularisation, and lays out simple reforms that would allow people to regularise their status.
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants works with people who are undocumented, helping them to navigate an extremely complex system and regularise their status.
In March 2021 we published a report entitled We Are Here, based on 22 interviews and 2 focus groups with undocumented people, as well as an online survey for legal advisors working with undocumented people, which received 92 responses. This primary research was supplemented by data …