Summary: Somalia - safe for returns?

Published by on November 7, 2013 | Leave a response
Summary: Somalia - safe for returns?

The Free Movement blog has very useful updates and commentary on asylum and immigration law. While not solely for the use of lawyers, some of the posts may be less accessible to people without a legal background. You can find simplified summaries of key Free Movement posts on this resources blog. See below for one such summary on the Home Office’s attempts to say Somalia is safe for returns. Read original Free Movement post here. Sentences marked as quotations are taken directly from the Free Movement post. Somalia - safe for returns? The current country guidance on Somalia says that there Read the full article…

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Migrant Children’s Project: helpline and legal factsheets

Published by on November 7, 2013 | Leave a response

The Migrant Children’s Project promotes the rights of migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children and young people and works to ensure that they receive the protection and support they need. They provide one-to-one advice through an advice line and outreach advice work, a range of free resources and online information, and training to practitioners working with young refugees and migrants. They conduct strategic litigation to ensure that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is at the heart of child immigration and asylum processes and social care practice and undertake policy advocacy to promote and protect the rights of Read the full article…

Third country cases: Dublin III Regulations compared to Dublin II

Published by on October 17, 2013 | Leave a response

This guest blog post is written by Robert Swinfen, a member of the Management Committee of NCADC. He has been closely involved in a few campaigns for the right to remain, including a successful campaign to prevent a transfer under the Dublin II regulations. “Dublin” is the term often used to refer to the agreement between the EU countries about where people’s asylum claims are heard. The numerals after the name is the official way they are written: so Dublin II which means Dublin 2 and Dublin III means Dublin 3). The normal rule is that it the asylum claim Read the full article…

Legal help for stateless people

Published by on September 3, 2013 | Leave a response

3 September 2013 The Liverpool Law Clinic is launching a free legal representation service to help people who are stateless to make an application for leave to remain under the new statelessness determination procedure. It doesn’t matter how long the person has been staying in the UK illegally, if they are not recognised as nationals by the country/ countries they come from, the Law Clinic may be able to help them make an application for leave to remain in the UK. If the application is successful, the Home Office will grant the Stateless person 2.5 years leave to remain, which Read the full article…