12 July 2024
Ch-Ch-Changes: What’s in store for immigration and asylum law under the new Labour government?
Whether this truly was an “immigration election”, as Nigel Farage claimed it to be, the subject was certainly high on the political agenda, with each party listing immigration as a key issue in their manifestos and both Labour and the Conservatives pledging to bring down net migration and tackle so-called “illegal migration.”
1 July 2024
What a 744% increase in sponsor licence applications says about immigration policies in parties’ manifestos
The current government is intent on lowering net migration to the UK. All but eradicating the ability for students and care workers to bring family members with them to the UK are policies already significantly affecting numbers.
26 June 2024
Windrush Day - 22 June 2024
Saturday 22 June 2024 marks the seventh national celebration of Windrush Day and 76 years since HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex, bringing over 500 Caribbean nationals to help rebuild Britain after the Second World War.
19 June 2024
More changes to the EU Settlement Scheme
A series of changes to the EU Settlement Scheme have resulted from the February 2023 High Court judgement in the Independent Monitoring Authority (IMA) case. The judgement said that in accordance with the Withdrawal Agreement when the UK left the EU, pre-settled status holders do not lose their residency right upon failure to make an application for settled status before their pre-settled status expires.
17 June 2024
What do the main political parties’ manifestos tell us about the future of UK immigration policy?
Opinion polls may be divided as to how high a priority immigration policy is for the electorate but with at least one party labelling this the ‘immigration election’, it is certainly an area which is set to attract significant scrutiny in the manifestos released this week. We set out here a comparison of the main political parties’ immigration policies – as set out in their manifestos – and consider what it could mean for future UK immigration policy.