As the Government today publishes its immigration white paper, children’s charities have reacted to say the reforms do not take account of children whose lives are determined by the immigration system, often leaving them in limbo. The proposed reforms will leave people who come to the UK on short-term visas for longer before they can…
Coram Children’s Legal Centre welcomes the government scrapping child detention powers in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, published today. Powers to detain children without time limit were brought in with the Illegal Migration Act 2023, though had not yet been commenced. They included allowing the government to lock up children arriving in the…
From tomorrow, 1st January 2025, most non-British children who live in the UK will need an e-visa to prove their immigration status.
The High Court has ruled that the Home Office breached its duty to provide adequate asylum accommodation to a mother and her severely disabled child following a successful judicial review initiated by CCLC. The claim was brought by an asylum seeker and her severely disabled 5-year-old child. The child experiences frequent seizures and requires close…
The Home Office plans to replace all physical immigration documents with digital ‘eVisas’ by 31 December 2024. Here we provide some basic information on what we know so far. The Home Office has started the process to replace all physical immigration documents, called biometric residence cards (BRPs), with digital ‘eVisas’ by 31 December 2024. This…
The minimum income requirement for partner visas is having a devastating impact on British children, report finds.
Many measures in the King’s Speech have a strong focus on children’s wellbeing, others present opportunities to focus on children’s rights
It is still uncertain how the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 will apply to individual children and young people, and will be until the Home Office publishes more information about its new asylum scheme. Here we provide some basic information on what we know so far. 30 April 2024 After many attempts…
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill has passed, and is now law. The legislation strikes a blow to the UK’s commitment to international law. Against international law We have worked with our partners in the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium throughout the passage of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill to…
Following an intervention by CCLC, the Home Office has confirmed that children and young people who were brought to the UK in 2016 and 2017 as part of the Calais camp clearance will now have a shorter wait before getting permanent status, known as indefinite leave to remain or settlement, and no fee to pay.…
In October 2023 the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium hosted a conference at Coram on the Illegal Migration Act, local authorities and separated children
As Parliament debates the final stages of the Illegal Migration Bill, CCLC says: The Government must keep meaningful limits on child detention We know that locking up infants and children is wrong because we have abolished it once before. In 2011, a Conservative-led government made ending child detention a flagship policy. It was right to do…