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Unsettled Status

2nd September 2019 By Dave

With the advent of Brexit, people will doubtless have read of the chaos and uncertainty facing European Union nationals resident in the UK who are seeking to regularise their status under the Home Office’s Settled Status scheme. But if the situation is difficult and confusing for people with clearly demarcated… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Government, Immigration Tagged With: Brexit, citizenship, European Union

Profiting from childhood misery

14th August 2019 By Dave

A little over 3 years ago, we met ‘Sade’ and her mother, ‘Maria’, about whom we’ve told you before. When we met, Sade, who was born in the UK, was a little over 8, and had spent the entirety of her life to date in this country, which is her… Read More

Filed Under: Government, Immigration Tagged With: citizenship, home office

ASIRT and the Birmingham Legal Walk: defending the right to have rights.

16th May 2019 By Dave

May is here once again and, once again, a team from ASIRT will be taking part in the Birmingham Legal Walk, supporting the Midland Legal Support Trust’s aim of improving access to justice for the most vulnerable in society. Successive cuts to legal aid budgets and austerity measures have served… Read More

Filed Under: Asylum, Fund Raising, Government Tagged With: Birmingham, citizenship, legal rights

Access to justice: a right, not a privilege.

7th March 2018 By Dave

March has arrived and with it, finally, the promise of longer, warmer days. But if the winter seems to have been interminably long for those of us with secure immigration status, access to a regular income, and safe, warm homes, I’m struggling to imagine how it might have been experienced… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Fund Raising, Immigration Tagged With: citizenship, funding, home office, legal aid

Let them eat laptops

24th May 2016 By Dave

On May 17th, the Government published the Immigration Act 2016. The Act is specifically designed to make life as difficult as possible for people subject to immigration control, further consolidating the ‘hostile environment’ agenda pursued by the Home Secretary since the election of the Coalition Government in 2010. Amongst other… Read More

Filed Under: Asylum, Case Studies, Fund Raising, Government, Immigration Tagged With: children, citizenship, home office, legal aid, legal rights, non-British, war and persecution

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