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Alongside more than 100 MPs, peers and union leaders, we have written to the Home Secretary demanding she immediately halt her 'earned settlement' reforms.

These proposals will only inflict harm on families, communities, public services, and the economy. They must not pass.

The consultation is anonymous and does not ask for personal details.

If you can, please take 20–30 minutes to respond and share widely.

Link to consultation:
ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Accessing welfare support during hardship or being unable to maintain regularised status must not result in punishment or exclusion from settlement.

One key question asks about penalties for people who access public funds or have “overstayed”. You can select that there be no additional penalties and argue that settlement be based on time lived in the UK, regardless of immigration status or experience of poverty, within a shorter capped timeframe

Longer temporary status means prolonged insecurity: restricted rights, higher costs, barriers to services, and increased risk of being made undocumented altogether. These impacts ripple across families and communities, entrenching inequality rather than supporting integration or social cohesion.

For undocumented people, it risks making already decades-long routes even longer or removing them altogether, particularly for those labelled “non-compliant” or as having “overstayed”.

The proposals would extend and harden routes to settlement, increasing the time most migrants must remain on temporary, insecure status. This affects people across work, family and community life — including parents, carers, workers, students, and long-term residents.

Just a reminder that the government’s “earned settlement” consultation closes just before midnight today (12 Feb) — this is the final chance to respond.

Link:
ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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From Here To There is part of the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series — a collaboration between Forced Migration and The Arts, CivicLeicester (publisher) and Regularise.

The songlines of migration From Here To There – 101 Poems on African and African Diasporic MigrationEdited by Nandi Jola and Omobola Osamor, CivicLeicester, £9.99AT this time of anti-immigrant rhetoric and measures of the Weste...

"....a vital verse intervention amid the toxic discourse surrounding immigration to the West from past European colonies, powerfully emphasising the humanitarian & karmic momentum that propels it."

Read the review of 'From Here To There' in the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/song...

People are talking about a “U-turn” on digital IDs.

New digital checks are still planned, which will make life harder for many people.

There is another way: let people work openly, uphold their rights, & create ways for all to regularise their immigration status.

The right to work's a human right

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Donate to Save our visas, Save our lives and our right to EXIST, organized by Avi Khera We are migrants who came to the UK on Graduate, Youth, Study and Depen… Avi Khera needs your support for Save our visas, Save our lives and our right to EXIST

TfL workers are being pushed out of the UK after a sudden immigration rule change on 22 July 2025. Some have already been forced to leave. Many more are at risk losing their visas, jobs and livelihoods. @london.gov.uk

Donate & share to support urgent legal costs 👇
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Let's build a real mass movemement for the rights of all migrants this coming year and beyond. It's the only way we will stop the government's attacks on migrants' rights and bring about meaningful change.

Labour's immigration shake-up is like the hostile environment on steroids Labour's new immigration rules pushes migrant workers into irregularity, exploitation and poverty, says campaigner Munya Radzi.

As 2025 comes to a close, we want to highlight just how difficult this year has been for migrants in the UK — documented & undocumented.

Harmful rule changes, a deepening Hostile Environment, and a long struggle ahead. But also resistance.

Read our founders’ words in the Big Issue.⬇️:

Return transport to London: Migrant Workers' Rights National Demonstration Stand with us in saying that migrants belong in every workplace and every community and demanding an end to the Hostile Environment.

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📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration – 13 December - Regularise Join the Migrant Workers’ Rights National Demonstration in Birmingham on 13 December. March for migrant rights, settlement justice and humanity.

For more details and route map visit:

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📢 Route announced – Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration – 13 December

🚶🏾‍♀️From St Martins Square to Frederick St

🫶🏽Look after yourselves & those around you. Talk to a steward / welfare in hi-vis if you need help

🧥Keep warm, dry & hydrated

Stay together. We keep each other safe

Fully support this!
Migrants rights are workers rights ✊🔥

📢 Migrant Workers' Rights – National Emergency Demonstration
⏰ Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📍 Birmingham City Centre

Join us in solidarity with ALL migrants, people seeking asylum & refugees.

Pass it on.

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Thoughts and prayers to this government’s humanity. You cannot unite a country by abandoning humanity. When governments other and dehumanise people, they don’t heal divisions — they deepen them, and in the process dehumanise themselves.

These policies put lives at risk — both those on the move & those already here. They make people less safe, fuel exploitation & guarantee more suffering. The government must stop the harm it is creating & overseeing. It has lost its humanity, but it is not too late to regain it.

Imposing visa penalties on countries that don’t ‘co-operate’ with the UK’s hostile and racist immigration policies exposes imperial arrogance. The UK preaches ‘sovereignty’ while punishing nations it colonised and invaded. Migration is global — but power isn’t shared equally.

Regularise rejects the narrative of ‘failed asylum seekers.’ People are failed by an asylum system built on hostility and exclusion, not support or compassion. Scaling up removals in a system that already gets so much wrong only deepens state violence and increases harm.

Framing families as creating ‘perverse incentives’ is dangerous. Parents don’t risk their lives/their children’s lives for loopholes — they do it for safety & opportunity. Removing support creates harm. Millions of Europeans moved to Americas seeking the same safety & opportunity

If undocumented peope & asylum seekers were allowed to work, they wouldn’t be forced into the shadows. Banning people from working and then criminalising them for trying to survive creates the very exploitation the government claims to oppose. Raids don’t solve it — rights do.

Framing UK asylum support as ‘generous’ distorts reality. People survive on minimal allowances — often between £9 and £49 per week — in unstable accommodation and without the right to work. It’s not generosity, it’s the bare minimum to prevent destitution.

There’s little evidence for the ‘pull factor.’ It’s an old myth used to justify policies that target racialised migrants. People move for safety, stability & opportunity — not to exploit systems. Cruelty won’t deter people in desperate situations; it only reveals systemic racism.

Longer settlement routes help no-one. When people can settle sooner, many feel more relaxed & hopeful, supporting needs for connection, belonging & participation. Extending routes limits stability &support. UK must abolish policies that marginalise migrants & undermine our rights

More people are being made undocumented — not by accident, but by design.

The system itself creates and traps people in irregularised immigration status.

The government knows this — and that it can be fixed with a stroke of a pen.