‘Three generations of one Windrush-descended family are struggling to prove that they are British in a protracted fight for documentation which has left a London-born woman facing homelessness with her two-year-old son.’
The Guardian, 18th December 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Home Office has made a U-turn in the case of a man caring for his terminally ill partner who was told he was going to be deported to Jamaica because officials had concluded that he “failed to demonstrate that his life would be at risk in Iraq”.’
The Guardian, 26th November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Home Office has made a sudden U-turn on its decision to ban the young children of an Oxford University professor, Amber Murrey, from living with her in the UK – the second time in a week it has reversed a visa refusal for the child of an Oxford academic following reports in the Guardian.’
The Guardian, 22nd October 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Furaha Asani, a young academic at Leicester University, was shocked when her visa application was rejected in August. But real fear set in when she realised Britain plans to deport her in three weeks’ time to the Democratic Republic of Congo – a war-torn country she has never visited and where the Home Office agrees sexual violence is pervasive.’
The Guardian, 15th October 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A Lithuanian man, who was deported following a conviction for stalking but found a way back to the country to torment the same victim, has been jailed for three years.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 9th October 2019
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘Two Windrush sisters who describe themselves as “inseparable” face being split up by the Home Office because of their different dates of birth.’
The Guardian, 6th October 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Home Office has reversed a decision to order a young doctor to leave the country.’
BBC News, 2nd October 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A British court has said it has no power to stop the deportation of a 10-year-old girl at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) after authorities rejected her mother’s asylum application.’
The Guardian, 25th September 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘I go home each night worrying about my clients. I wonder who would know if something bad ever happened to them.’
The Guardian, 19th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government has still made no compensation payments to Windrush victims and has failed to introduce legislation that would allow damages to be paid, 15 months after Theresa May apologised for the scandal and promised a financial settlement.’
The Guardian, 4th July 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Vietnamese national was illegally detained for five months after Home Office refused to accept he was not someone else.’
The Guardian, 27th July 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A gay rugby player has been given a reprieve from deportation to Kenya after losing his legal battle and being ordered to leave the UK.’
The Independent, 6th June 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The government runs the risk of another Windrush scandal if “serious concerns” about its EU settlement scheme are not addressed, MPs have said.’
BBC News, 30th May 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Despite the return of the courts on Monday, it was another relatively light week in terms of decisions in the fields of public law and human rights. However, the High Court decided a number of interesting clinical negligence cases, whilst the Court of Appeal gave judgement in the case of TM (Kenya), R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 784.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th May 2019
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A man who brought his baby niece to Britain in the back of his car from a French refugee camp after she sustained serious burns has had his deportation halted at the last minute by the Home Office.’
The Guardian, 30th April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Home Office has been referred to the equalities watchdog over the Windrush scandal and the wider “hostile environment”. More than 80 MPs from six political parties have called on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to investigate whether the department unlawfully discriminated against the Windrush generation and continues to discriminate against ethnic minority Britons as a “direct result” of its immigration policies.’
The Independent, 1st May 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Home Office is facing over 300 court of appeal legal challenges from foreign students who believe they were wrongly accused of cheating in English tests, and dozens more cases are pending in immigration tribunals.’
The Guardian, 26th April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘On 16 April 2018, Amber Rudd – then home secretary – stood up in the House of Commons to formally acknowledge the Windrush scandal for the first time. The treatment of immigrants by her department’s “hostile environment” was appalling, she said, vowing to deal with cases within two weeks and put things right. But exactly one year later, the suffering goes on. Many are yet to receive a response to their application to the taskforce, leaving them in a “state of limbo” with little or no information about how their case is progressing.’
The Independent, 16th April 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A corrupt immigration officer has been jailed for attempting to extort money from an Indian national who was due to be removed from the UK.’
The Independent, 12th April 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The government could end up paying as much as £570m in compensation to people affected by the Windrush scandal, but lawyers warned that the design of the scheme meant individual payouts could prove to be very ungenerous.’
The Guardian, 4th April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
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