カテゴリー: Immigration and asylum
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Lawyer for Ponnampalam Jothibala threatens to file for judicial review over handling of caseA man who came to the UK to train as an accountant almost 40 years ago has been left homeless after a catalogue of Home Office delays.Ponnampalam Jothibala, 69,…
High level of interest in scheme launched on Sunday comes despite fears applications will be monitoredMigration agents in Hong Kong say they have had a rush of inquiries from people seeking to access the new visa scheme launched by the UK government on…
Scheme allows Hong Kong residents with a BNO passport to live and work in the UK with a pathway to citizenship after five yearsA new visa scheme offering millions of Hong Kong residents a pathway to British citizenship will go live on Sunday as the UK …
Kavita Puri’s Three Pounds in My Pocket is an extensive oral history of the lives of Indian and Pakistani migrants and their families, from partition to Cornershop“A lot of them had survived partition, they were living in difficult conditions, working …
Up to 3 million people in Hong Kong could be eligible to live, work or study in the UK under a bespoke immigration system announced by Dominic Raab in response to the imposition of national security legislation on Hong Kong by China. The foreign secret…
Race relations researcher who saw political involvement as a key factor in integration for immigrants to BritainMuhammad Anwar, who has died aged 75 of a heart condition, did much to advance understanding of the problems and opportunities of ethnic min…
NGO demands more details on Boris Johnson’s ‘vague and imprecise’ commitmentHong Kong democracy campaigners are pressing the Foreign Office to spell out how Boris Johnson’s “vague and imprecise commitment” will give a path to British citizenship to mil…
Police say one migrant was charged $22,000 before being taken to China, France and then the UKPolice in Vietnam have charged seven people in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants whose bodies were discovered in the back of a lorry in the UK in 2019…
Most Britons were not hostile and helped south Asians and east Africans to settle, says Nitin Mehta, while Jane Lane believes racism needs to be tackled at an early ageKavita Puri, like so many others before her, talks about the racism faced by immigra…
I have been recording testimonies of these now-elderly pioneers, who never thought they would have to live through such hostility again“I don’t know what it is to be British any more.” This from a man who is a professor at a prominent university and pa…
Illegally trafficked migrants will stay silent if police continue to report victims to Home OfficeIn January 2018, a terrified 18-year-old Vietnamese man walked into a police station in London and told police that he had spent five years being traffick…
6 September 1921: A court heard at Liverpool today, where 13 Chinese were facing deportation, that smuggling was carried out in a systematic mannerLiverpool, Monday.Disclosures as to the systematic manner in which Chinamen are smuggled into Great Brita…