Not a Stranger Campaign Report The idea of ‘earned settlement’ is rooted in cruelty and creating more uncertainty for migrants. The new proposals will make migrants’ statuses even more insecure, with significant financial and mental health impacts on people affected by longer pathways to settlement. In collaboration with the migrant-led Not a Stranger campaign, the […]
Ramadan Mubarak! You are warmly invited to our our Community Iftaar, co-hosted with JCWI, on Friday 13 March from 4.20pm in London, Angel, EC1. Alongside iftaar, there will be an immigration advice clinic starting from 4.30pm with JCWI lawyers available to give general immigration advice to individuals. Spaces are limited, so please register for a ticket with an advice option if you’d like an advice slot. We’ll also host an
When: 16 December 2025 In May 2025, the Government published the new Immigration White Paper entitled ‘Restoring Control Over the Immigration System’. The 82-page document contains a huge number of proposed policies targeting a wide range of migrant groups, including the Government’s intention to extend indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from 5 to 10 years,
Worried about immigration raids on your business and community? There has been a significant increase in immigration raids on businesses especially car washes, nail bars, hair salons, convenience stores, construction sites and takeaways. They are almost always targeting people who are from migrant and racialised backgrounds. We know many many of the raids are conducted
On Monday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled a raft of yet more anti-migrant measures, as this Government is intent on appeasing Reform and the far-right. What has followed are racist assumptions hidden behind the excuse of a racialised Home Secretary – again – making migrants, including people seeking asylum and refugees, more precarious through appeals to
“From what we know of the proposed measures in the immigration White Paper, they appear to be punitive. Wide-ranging evidence suggests that long pathways are detrimental to individuals and communities. No one should be subject to them. Rather than exemptions for some and not for others, we need a thorough overhaul of settlement and citizenship
Over the last year, anti-migrant racism and transphobia are rising. That’s why showing up and building strong intersectional movements for change is absolutely vital. As migrants, as trans people, as People of Colour, as queers, as people who stand in solidarity with them, we will continue to fight, just as our ancestors before us always
Dear supporters, May was another month where migrants’ rights came under attack in the form of the new Immigration White Paper This time, the Prime Minister tried to justify another round of harsh immigration proposals in an already infamous ‘island of strangers’ speech – a nod to Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ tirade. The Immigration
For the first time, the Home Office has announced that it will be publicising the nationalities of foreign national offenders (FNOs). We must challenge the dog whistle politics that attempt to manufacture a link between nationality, religion, ethnicity and criminality, and that attempt to present criminality as something exclusively inherent to “incompatible cultures”. In the
Dear supporters, We need to have each other’s backs now more than ever. On 25 April, a hotel in Whitechapel housing people seeking asylum was emptied. More than 300 residents were moved to locations across London and beyond with minimal information and less than 24 hours notice. There was a lot of confusion and fear,
