Great to be invited to attend the recent 'A Fresh Look at Albania' event organised to celebrate 100 years of diplomatic relations between the UK and Albania. Good discussion with the Albanian and British ambassadors.
Very pleased to announce the opening of our new London office at 54 Leytonstone Road, Stratford, E15 1SQ. To arrange an appointment please call 01484 506175.
We're currently dealing with a very large number of EU settlement cases as the 30 June deadline draws near. Government says 400k cases still outstanding and will issue a 28-day warning to people to apply to stay in UK. 5.6m have applied so far.
https://t.co/FR2oBblOGS
A new “migration and mobility partnership” between India and the UK will create a youth mobility scheme to allow up to 3,000 Indian graduates aged 18-30 to come to the UK each year and seek work, staying for up to 24 months. Young Britons can do the same in India.
An estimated 300,000 people are expected to leave Hong Kong for Britain under the government’s new visa plan, according to this report. https://t.co/Hp4yAWisH7
UK Gov't has launched new visa routes as part of its Brexit preparations, including Skilled Worker, Global Talent, Innovator and Start-Up visas. Anyone who wants to work in the UK from January 1, including from the EU, will have to apply for a visa.
https://t.co/lS7FHX3g29
We wholeheartedly back this initiative which calls for an apology from the PM and Home Secretary for attacking 'activist' and 'leftie' immigration lawyers. The Home Office should focus instead on making fair and consistent decisions.
https://t.co/W1CMEIsy7w
UK gov't response to asylum seekers becoming increasingly bizarre. Having apparently ruled out a plan to send them to an island in the middle of the Atlantic, now they are considering housing them on disused ferries moored off the UK coast.
https://t.co/D9shRVsh1U
Damning report on the government's Immigration Enforcement Unit. MPs criticise its lack of diversity and say policies risk being made on 'assumption and prejudice'. They found 'too little concern' about failures and this risked another Windrush scandal
https://t.co/GL0EIUghWx
Worrying reports about the destitution facing migrants who have lost their jobs because of the pandemic but are denied access to benefits under government rules.
https://t.co/sxw4cUOaq7
Welcome news that the Home Office is to scrap a highly controversial algorithm which gave a higher or lower risk score to visa applicants based on their nationality. Removes a high degree of inherent unfairness. https://t.co/EHMA0A9sw5
Government has announced new ‘fast track’ health and care visa as part of the UK’s new post-Brexit immigration system. Controversially excludes care home workers. https://t.co/bLyCc6xMaK
Thousands of Hong Kong residents who possess British National Overseas passports are to be offered a citizenship route into the UK. PM Boris Johnson says new security laws imposed by China contravene the 1985 'one country two systems' agreement.
https://t.co/ThMH4SXvmK
Having represented victims of the #Windrush scandal it is extraordinary how slow the government has been in making compensation payments to people who were wrongly detained, deported and lost their jobs. https://t.co/y6AsWzUvKZ
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