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Registered charity providing information on immigration, asylum and refugee law at https://www.ein.org.uk. Online since 1998.
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Asylum and returns policy statement now published at www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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📢 We're recruiting! We're looking for a Legal Project Officer to join our team.

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November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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UK-linked children whose parents have been deprived of their citizenship are trapped in camps in Syria
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UK-linked children whose parents have been deprived of their citizenship are trapped in camps in Syria
The home secretary has the power to remove a person’s British citizenship if they consider it ‘conducive to the public good’.
theconversation.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Meet Neil Frackelton, our new CEO.

He brings with him a deep commitment to the mission and values that define GMIAU.

Having completed his first week, Neil shares his background, career highlights, and what led him to become the CEO of GMIAU.

🔗https://gmiau.org/meet-neil-frackelton-gmiaus-ceo/
October 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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John Tuckett appointed as new ICIBI www.gov.uk/government/n...
John Tuckett appointed as new ICIBI
The Home Secretary has today announced John Tuckett's appointment as Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI).
www.gov.uk
October 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Understanding the Justice Ramifications of Immediately Deporting Foreign National Offenders, by Amanda Spalding, Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds, and Jonathan Collinson, Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield www.ein.org.uk/blog/underst...
Understanding the Justice Ramifications of Immediately Deporting Foreign National Offenders
Written by Amanda Spalding and Jonathan Collinson
www.ein.org.uk
October 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Applications are now open for the next cohort of Compass: The Asylum Aid Advisor Development Programme!

This free programme offers 5 IAA Level 2 trainees in-depth training, shadowing opportunities, supervision & a peer support network.

Find out how to apply here: asylumaid.org.uk/what-we-do/c...
Compass: The Asylum Aid Advisor Development Programme | Asylum Aid
Image In England and Wales, 65% of the population lacks access to a legal aid provider for immigrat
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October 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Home Office loses bid to speed up deportation under Starmer’s one in, one out migrant scheme www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Home Office loses bid to speed up deportation under one in, one out migrant scheme
An Eritrean migrant had his deportation to France delayed last week after a High Court ruling
www.independent.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Home Office can deport migrant under 'one in one out deal', court says - after losing similar case on Tuesday news.sky.com/story/home-o...
Home Office can deport migrant under 'one in one out deal', court says - after losing similar case on Tuesday
The Home Office faced its second legal challenge after a High Court judge issued a temporary halt to plans to deport another man over human trafficking concerns.
news.sky.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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UK court temporarily blocks removal of asylum seeker under UK-France returns deal www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Austria's First Deportation of a Syrian Asylum Seeker Sets Alarming Precedent syriaaccountability.org/austrias-fir...
Austria's First Deportation of a Syrian Asylum Seeker Sets Alarming Precedent
On July 7, 2025, Austria became the first EU country to deport a Syrian national to Syria since the start of the country’s conflict in 2011. The man, whose identity has not been made public, had his r...
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August 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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More than 100 people detained for removal after arriving in small boats, says UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 100 people detained for removal after arriving in small boats, says UK government
Those held expected to be returned to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme, but no one yet granted safe route to UK
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Jacqueline McKenzie says on X this morning that asylum appeal changes announced by the Government are an attack on the legal profession and deeply troubling x.com/JacquiMckenz...
Appearing on Radio 4 this morning to comment on the government's proposal to remove judges from the asylum appeals process, I was followed by Jo White, Labour MP and chair of the Red Wall Caucus, who referred to immigration lawyers and said: "you see the ambulance chasers out there and I think for many solicitors it's a licence to print money..." Not only is this a terrible insult to hardworking immigration lawyers and advisors across the country, it's a fabrication; ignorant & careless commentary like this suggests Ms White does not understand the sector and is probably bereft of any real ideas. That she is happy to go on national radio and use the sort of language known to fuel discontent in the hope that this plays out well at the next election, putting the legal profession and NGOs at even more risk than already faced, is appalling. If I was unsure whether these new plans are an attack on the judiciary, Ms White leaves us in little doubt. And it's not just the judiciary, it's the legal profession. That a Labour MP has no regard for the rights of people within its borders, for our democracy, or for upholding the rule of law, is deeply troubling.
August 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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📢 New vacancy: We're looking for a Legal Administrator and Training Programme Coordinator to provide vital casework support, manage files and administration for our teams and training programmes.

📍 Based in London
📅 Deadline: 5pm, 27th August

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Legal Administrator and Training Programme Coordinator | Asylum Aid
The Legal Administrator & Training Programme Coordinator combines two crucial roles with key responsibilities to support the Asylum Aid team.
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August 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Interpretation, Translation, and Confusion in Refugee Status Determination Procedures by Professor Anthony Good www.ein.org.uk/blog/interpr...
This article examines the impact on legal processes of the need to use interpreters, drawing examples from refugee status determination procedures in the United Kingdom. It describes the roles played by interpreters in facilitating intercultural communication between asylum applicants and the administrative and legal actors responsible for assessing or defending their claims at the various stages of those procedures. The UK authorities' somewhat naïve expectations about the nature of the interpretation process display little understanding of the practical dilemmas that interpreters face. Much of the confusion and many of the barriers to communication created by the involvement of interpreters reflect the inherent untranslatability of particular notions, and so arise irrespective of the technical competence of the interpreters themselves. For example, dates may be reckoned using non-Gregorian calendars; terminologies for family relationships and parts of the body may be incongruent between the two languages; and there may be no exact indigenous legal equivalents to UK notions such as 'detention' or 'rape'. Different interpreters may therefore give different, though equally legitimate, translations of such terms, creating apparent 'inconsistencies' in the resulting translated accounts. Given the centrality of notions of credibility in asylum decision-making, even quite trivial divergencies over such matters may prove crucial.
August 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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📣UPCOMING EVENT: We’re proud to be co-hosting the North West Migrants’ Rights Conference 'Humanising the rhetoric: through law, communities and understanding' with @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social on 30 September 2025.

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August 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum
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UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum
The United Kingdom’s announcement on July 22 that it would use AI face-scanning technology to evaluate whether an asylum seeker is under age 18 threatens to harm children seeking refuge.
www.hrw.org
August 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Medical Justice’s first immigration detention annual review highlights ongoing safeguarding failures www.ein.org.uk/news/medical...
Medical Justice’s first immigration detention annual review highlights ongoing safeguarding failures
New report documents how vulnerable people continue to suffer harm and inadequate care in UK's detention centres
www.ein.org.uk
July 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Mr Justice Dove, President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal, is among six new Court of Appeal judges www.judiciary.uk/appointments...
Appointment of Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Find out who the new appointees are and read their biographies
www.judiciary.uk
June 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Explainer now up on whether the ECHR stops foreign national offenders from being deported from the UK.

ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/d...
Explainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK? - UK in a changing Europe
Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald and Victoria Adelman examine the relationship between the ECHR and immigration law.
ukandeu.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Attacks on the Human Rights of migrants put all our rights at risk www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
Attacks on the Human Rights of migrants put all our rights at risk - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Strasbourg 16/06/2025
www.coe.int
June 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Next in our Immigration Webinar Series, Claire Physsas and Raggi Kotak will provide an overview on challenging negative NRM decisions and refusals of permission to stay for victims of trafficking. They will discuss recent case law.

To reserve your place, please email seminars@onepumpcourt.co.uk
June 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Important new Hamid judgment on the (mis)use of AI: caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...
We would go further however. There are serious implications for the administration of justice and public confidence in the justice system if artificial intelligence is misused. In those circumstances, practical and effective measures must now be taken by those within the legal profession with individual leadership responsibilities (such as heads of chambers and managing partners) and by those with the responsibility for regulating the provision of legal services. Those measures must ensure that every individual currently providing legal services within this jurisdiction (whenever and wherever they were qualified to do so) understands and complies with their professional and ethical obligations and their duties to the court if using artificial intelligence. For the future, in Hamid hearings such as these, the profession can expect the court to inquire whether those leadership responsibilities have been fulfilled.
June 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The Immigration (Citizens’ Rights Appeals) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/63... Explanatory Memorandum: "This amendment ... simplifies the appeals process for persons who have permission to remain in the UK under the EUSS and who are subject to deportation"
The Immigration (Citizens’ Rights Appeals) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
These Regulations amend the Immigration (Citizens’ Rights Appeals) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”).
www.legislation.gov.uk
June 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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MAC finds no major immigration issues to fix in key review of IT and engineering recruitment www.ein.org.uk/news/mac-fin...
MAC finds no major immigration issues to fix in key review of IT and engineering recruitment
Migration Advisory Committee concludes IT and engineering sectors' use of the immigration system is proportionate, compliant with rules, and driven by clear labour market demand
www.ein.org.uk
May 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM