Jamie McLean
@jamiemclean.bsky.social
Sheffield-based Immigration/Asylum lawyer // mediocre birdwatcher // WFH Jungle & D&B DJ
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Home Office announces ‘nationwide blitz’ on asylum seekers taking jobs
… Or they could allow asylum seekers to work and contribute their skills to society, pay tax and have the chance to support themselves, but I guess that would just be too crazy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
… Or they could allow asylum seekers to work and contribute their skills to society, pay tax and have the chance to support themselves, but I guess that would just be too crazy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Home Office announces ‘nationwide blitz’ on asylum seekers taking jobs
Government under pressure on issue after stories of asylum seekers working illegally as takeaway delivery riders
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Home Office announces ‘nationwide blitz’ on asylum seekers taking jobs
… Or they could allow asylum seekers to work and contribute their skills to society, pay tax and have the chance to support themselves, but I guess that would just be too crazy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
… Or they could allow asylum seekers to work and contribute their skills to society, pay tax and have the chance to support themselves, but I guess that would just be too crazy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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📣 Kneecap statement repost from X:
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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For a moment in 2018 when the Windrush broke there was some recognition of human impact (and racialised history) of UK immigration controls. All since submerged by controlling-the-numbers panic. Nothing about that from IfG (all coherence and "realism") and not much hope for the White Paper either
UK needs annual migration plan to end incoherent policies, says thinktank
With white paper imminent, Institute for Government urges ministers to abandon ‘reactive, kneejerk’ decisions
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
For a moment in 2018 when the Windrush broke there was some recognition of human impact (and racialised history) of UK immigration controls. All since submerged by controlling-the-numbers panic. Nothing about that from IfG (all coherence and "realism") and not much hope for the White Paper either
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This should be changed asap.
If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...
If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...
Good character guidance amended to block refugees from naturalisation - Free Movement
There have been some important additions to pages 50 and 51 of the Good Character guidance (a comparison of the new and old versions is here) that have the
freemovement.org.uk
February 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This should be changed asap.
If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...
If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...
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Why the move to eVisas - the only way to show migration status demo 1 January 2025 - combined with ongoing hostile environment policies that turn the public and statutory organisations into “quasi” border is a disaster waiting to happen @freemovement.bsky.social freemovement.org.uk/evisas-and-t...
eVisas and the hostile environment: a disaster waiting to happen - Free Movement
There is now only a month left before all biometric residence permits and biometric residence cards will expire on 31 December 2024 and understanding of the
freemovement.org.uk
December 2, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Why the move to eVisas - the only way to show migration status demo 1 January 2025 - combined with ongoing hostile environment policies that turn the public and statutory organisations into “quasi” border is a disaster waiting to happen @freemovement.bsky.social freemovement.org.uk/evisas-and-t...
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77K asylum claims in a year. Around the same number as Old Trafford holds. In one of the richest countries in the World, who built their wealth on Colonialism.
And how much of our media and political bandwidth does it consume?! Ridiculous.
And how much of our media and political bandwidth does it consume?! Ridiculous.
November 28, 2024 at 4:58 PM
77K asylum claims in a year. Around the same number as Old Trafford holds. In one of the richest countries in the World, who built their wealth on Colonialism.
And how much of our media and political bandwidth does it consume?! Ridiculous.
And how much of our media and political bandwidth does it consume?! Ridiculous.
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Your reminder that the UK chooses to insist on people having visas to travel, won’t make exceptions even in the direst humanitarian circumstances, and then presents people who try to escape without them as the greatest threat the country faces
The failure of the UK government to let British citizens bring their non-British family members when being evacuated out of Gaza is leading to some extremely difficult decisions. A better way is possible.
freemovement.org.uk/gaza-what-is...
freemovement.org.uk/gaza-what-is...
November 7, 2023 at 9:54 AM
Your reminder that the UK chooses to insist on people having visas to travel, won’t make exceptions even in the direst humanitarian circumstances, and then presents people who try to escape without them as the greatest threat the country faces