UK Immigration News

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has warned that thousands of EU care workers in Britain risk being criminalised and losing their UK immigration status. According to the JCWI, there is a ‘lack of knowledge’ about the EU Settlement Scheme, which EU citizens need to apply for in order to remain in the UK after June 2021.

 

The Home Office has blasted prosecutors for applying the law in UK immigration cases, according to the chief of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Max Hill QC claims that the government has ‘repeatedly criticised’ prosecutors for simply applying the law. 

 

Mr Hill, the director of public prosecutions, recently defended rulings made for two UK immigration cases which reportedly irked Home Secretary, Priti Patel, who is trying to crackdown on irregular travel Britain.

The UK government’s controversial ‘immigration exemption’ from the Data Protection Act 2018 faces a further legal challenge from human rights groups. The case is set to be heard in the Court of Appeal on 23 February 2021. An initial legal challenge was launched in the summer of 2019.

 

A damning letter written by two doctors and published in the South African Medical Journal has blamed the UK’s visa and immigration policy for the poaching of health workers from the world’s poorest countries. Current UK immigration rules recognise most healthcare roles as shortage occupations.

 

Many of Britain’s biggest music icons have accused the government of failing them amid an ongoing row over visa-free travel between the UK and the European Union. Britain and Brussels have been in a heated dispute over visa-free travel with each blaming the other over failings to agree a deal.

 

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and UK Immigration, David Bolt, has published a report on the Home Office’s use of penalties and sanctions to ‘encourage’ compliance with immigration rules. According to a press release issued on the government’s official website, the report reviewed the efficiency and effectiveness of Home Office penalties and sanctions.