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⚡We're among almost 600 individuals and organisations working in UK migration and asylum law to have signed a Statement of Consensus following the Government's recent announcements about changes to UK asylum policy.

Read our collective concerns 👇👇

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🚨LAST CALL for applications for ILPA's Legal Project Officer

⏰Apply by midnight tonight⏰

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All articles from our JIANL Special Issue are now available open access as author manuscript versions here: ilpa.org.uk/journal-of-i...

Thanks very much to @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social for allowing us to bring the Special Issue to a wider audience!

📢 We're recruiting! We're looking for a Legal Project Officer to join our team.

⏰Apply by Monday 24 November 2025.

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⚡Powerful report from @ramfel.bsky.social published this week showing the reality of life in the UK's asylum hotels.

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Read our joint briefing on her amendment to the latest immigration bill here: labourexploitation.org/app/uploads/...

@lawrsuk.bsky.social, @workrights.bsky.social, @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social, @focusonlabour.bsky.social #LEAG #SecureReporting

⚡Tomorrow is #AntiSlaveryDay. Writing on the ILPA Blog, Avril Sharp of @kalayaan.org.uk renews calls for long overdue changes to fix the broken #OverseasDomesticWorker visa, so domestic workers can leave abusive employment, without risking further harm.

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⚡To mark #WorldMentalHealthDay Elizabeth Rimmer, Chief Executive of LawCare, reflects on the findings of the #LifeInTheLaw 2025 survey and sets out steps organisations can take to improve workplace #wellbeing.

Read her insights 👇

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The ECHR and United Kingdom international relations The suggestion that the United Kingdom might withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights for immigration purposes is misconceived. To contend that ECHR withdrawal is a simple act without …

The ECHR and United Kingdom international relations
#ECHR_withdrawal #humanrights #UKimmigration
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The answer is not for people to remain in France. The UK must accept its share of responsibility for refugees.
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We have consistently warned that restricting family reunion and other humanitarian pathways drives people into dangerous journeys.

We urge the Government to act now to expand safe routes, so that individuals seeking safety are not forced to risk their lives at sea.

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These deaths are:

➡️ the consequence of the absence of safe routes to protection in the UK

➡️ the consequence of penalties and fines imposed by the government on train, ferry and airline carriers who could otherwise bring people safely to the UK.

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⚡ILPA is profoundly saddened by the deaths of four people, including two children, in the Channel over the past 24 hours.

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📢 We're recruiting!! We're looking for a part-time Membership Engagement Manager to join our team.

⏰ Apply by Sunday 7 September.

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⚡We are one of over 200 orgs to have signed refugeestogether.bsky.social's open letter to party leaders calling for them to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past.

Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate.

⚡We’re one of the 53 organisations who've joined @ramfel.bsky.social to sign their letter urging Yvette Cooper to take urgent action to allow family reunion for those affected by the Afghan data breach which put their families at risk from the Taliban. Read more 👇👇

🔊We have issued a public statement to mark the anniversary of the start of the summer 2024 riots. Read it in full 👇

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❓Did you know that hundreds of thousands of people are forced to wait over 10 years for the right to permanently settle in the place they already call home?

And it’s about to get worse. 🧵

🔽Garden Court's Adrian Berry KC @berryadrianc.bsky.social produces briefing on the Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Bill for ILPA @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:

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📣 Are you a UK-based asylum/immigration practitioner interested in gender-based claims for asylum?

Join our joint training with Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) on 'How to Effectively Prepare Gender-based Violence Asylum Claims'

📅 Thurs 3 July. 3-5 pm.

Tickets 👉 www.ticketsource.co.uk/wirl/t-pqjyamg

Top: ILPA logo Below: A torn-looking extract from ILPA blog "Supporting Access to Justive in Immigration Tribunals: Identifying Communication Needs Beyond a Language Barrier". Extract has a photo of two women talking. Below: Quote from article: "Practical barriers to diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental condition [include] the cost of obtaining a diagnosis or the geographical availability of health services, as well as assessment tools not designed for people outside the ‘Cultural West’”

We're published on the @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social ‬today, exploring the importance of - and barriers to - timely identification of communication differences and difficulties in #immigration matters: http://bit.ly/3IhbJc8 #intermediary

🚨Did you know the government has made it nearly impossible for many refugees to become British citizens?

It's based on how they arrived, not who they are as people. This affects our neighbours, colleagues, friends.

📢Your MP needs to hear from you:

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We are so grateful 🙏 to the 100+ organisations who have supported the Briefing.

⚡ In advance of Committee Stage of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill in @houseoflords.parliament.uk, we have issued a Joint Briefing with @refugeestogether.bsky.social on the “Good character requirement for citizenship” Amendment 👇

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⚡ In May, our legal director ‪‪@zoebantleman.bsky.social‬ gave evidence to the JCHR on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.

We welcome the Committee's subsequent report which sets out concerns raised & makes recommendations for improvement 👇
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@ilpaimmigration.bsky.social looking forward to speaking at our event on the immigration White Paper tonight, alongside my brilliant colleagues!

📣 Tomorrow, 17/06, our team of walkers 🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♀️ is joining with 1000s of others in central London to take on 10K for justice ⚖️ in @londonlegal.bsky.social's annual #LondonLegalWalk ☀️

🙏 Please help us smash our fundraising target 👇👇

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⚡ It's Refugee Week 2025 🧡 We join with friends around the world celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and all those seeking sanctuary 🧡 #RefugeeWeek #CommunityAsASuperpower

Call for Papers: The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience – The ECHR at 75 and the Venice Commission at 35 In 2025, we celebrate two anniversaries, the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the 35th anniversary of the Venice Commission. These significantmilestones will b…

⏰ Closing tomorrow ⏰ Call for Papers: The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience – The ECHR at 75 and the Venice Commission at 35.

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