Immigration news

Tens of thousands of EU citizens will be issued with 28-day UK immigration notices should they miss the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) deadline on 30 June. The warning notices will notify EU citizens, who fail to make an application for the EUSS within a week of the deadline, to apply or risk the consequences, including losing their rights to healthcare and employment.

 

With less than a week to go until the EUSS deadline, the Home Office is increasing its efforts to reach those who are unaware of the rule change, including vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children in care.

The US Chamber of Commerce has launched a massive campaign to tackle a growing skills shortage in America and has urged the Biden administration and Congress to scrap the per-country quota applied to US green cards. The Chamber of Commerce recently called for the US H1B visa quota to be doubled to bring more skilled professionals into the country.

 

UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has ordered the removal of unconscious bias training for Home Office staff, including those working in the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) department. UKVI staff were offered the training in 2020 by Challenge Consultancy at a cost of £32,510.

 

Former US President, Donald Trump, is set to visit America’s southern border with Mexico, joining Texas governor Greg Abbott, who recently announced that Texas will ‘build a border wall all of its own’. Trump plans to visit as Republicans attempt to put pressure on current US President, Joe Biden, over his handling of the US immigration issue.

 

Comments made by the UK’s potential new NHS chief to ‘make the NHS less reliant on foreign workers’ has been met with a huge backlash. NHS workers have hit back at Baroness Dido Harding who made a pledge to make the NHS less reliant on the UK immigration system if she is appointed to the role of Chief Executive of the National Health Service.

 

A political activist from the Ivory Coast has described to the Huffington Post how black immigrants are still fighting against institutionalized racism in the US immigration system. Yacouba, who fled his country in 2018, told his story as the US celebrated ‘Juneteenth’ – a day commemorating the liberation of African Americans who had been enslaved in the US.