A report released last month by the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, into “the Home Office’s approach to illegal working” provided an interesting window onto perceptions of the Home Office, and the lack of public support for enforcement operations.
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Inspection into the use of interpreters in the asylum process
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt, has announced that as part of his inspection of the UK’s asylum system, he is calling for evidence on the Home Office’s use of interpreters in the asylum process.
The deadline is 13 June.
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Bureaucratic barriers to rights
As anyone attempting to make an online immigration application in recent weeks will know, the system is in a mess. A right royal mess.
In recent months, many applications have been made online only and the process has been outsourced to a company called Sopra Steria.
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“Significantly over 18” – Court of Appeal judgment
Last week, the Court of Appeal made a very important judgement on the Home Office’s policy on deciding the age of young people seeking asylum – also known as “age assessments”.
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Football vs the Home Office
Yesterday, Mount Pleasant Park Football Club staged a mini-football-game-protest outside Vulcan House, the Home Office building in Sheffield, against detention and deportation.
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“A person becomes a person through other persons”: Ubuntu Women’s Shelter
At the start of May, we ran a workshop on the asylum process in Glasgow, and we were really happy to meet a couple of women representing Ubuntu Women’s Shelter.
Ubuntu are the first specialist service in the UK run and managed by people with lived experience of migration, asylum or destitution.
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Video link bail hearings: limiting access to justice
PhD researcher Jo Hynes wrote this week about her observations on the use of video link technology in immigration bail hearings.
During her observations, bail was refused in 31% of the cases heard via video link and never refused in instances where cases were heard in person.
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Learning together, sharing together, surviving together
We launched the Right to Remain asylum navigation board (co-developed with Dr Victoria Canning of Bristol University and Calverts design and print cooperative) in Glasgow last week.
Here, Lisa Matthews (coordinator at Right to Remain) talks to Josh at Third Works about the asylum navigation board, and the main stages of the UK asylum process (in 2 minutes!).
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8:00pm to 8:00am, 365 nights a year: Glasgow night shelter
This week, we ran a workshop on the asylum process for volunteers at the Glasgow night shelter. The shelter provides emergency accommodation for destitute people seeking asylum, and other people with no recourse to public funds.
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Helping people at the start of their asylum journey: Early Asylum Support Sheffield
Since 2016, we’ve been working with Early Asylum Support Sheffield, a volunteer group who run monthly information sessions for people newly-arrived to the area, on preparing for the asylum substantive interview.
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New Patients Not Passports toolkit
Docs Not Cops, Migrants Organise and Medact have launched a new toolkit designed to support you in advocating for people facing charges for NHS care, and in taking action to end immigration checks and upfront charging in the NHS.
There’s guidance if you’re supporting someone being charged for healthcare, the facts about the NHS charges, and tools so you can campaign for change in your local area.
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Leave to remain as a stateless person in the UK
A stateless person, as defined by the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons is “a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”.
Although the UK signed up the 1954 Convention, there was no formal mechanism for recognising and providing protection to stateless people until 2013.
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- 31 July – Liverpool Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
- Solidarity in Newcastle – joining the dots for the migration justice movement
- Right to Remain Solidarity Appeal for Marcia Nthobatsang
- 21 July: Knowledge is Power online workshop
- 22 July – Manchester Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
Legal updates
- UK-France ‘One In, One Out’ Immigration Policy: A Flawed Fix for a Complex Crisis
- Closure of Safe Routes for Afghans: Changes to the Immigration Rules
- The Borders, Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill – just very disappointing
- eVisa deadline extended to 1 June 2025
- Home Office increases immigration application fees, again
Events
- 31 July – Liverpool Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
- 21 July: Knowledge is Power online workshop
- 22 July – Manchester Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
- 17 July: From Detention to Defiance – National Solidarity Launch meeting
- The National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention, 18 October 2025 – Call for action!
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Right to Remain works with communities, groups and organisations across the UK, providing information, resources, training and assistance to help people to establish their right to remain, and to challenge injustice in the immigration and asylum system. Right to Remain is a registered charity (charity number 1192934).
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