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\u00a0Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter!<\/p>\n

Committee stage of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill continued last week, and the two amendments that had been put forward to reverse the recent changes to the good character guidance\u00a0were debated on Thursday<\/a>. Pete Wishart MP put it well when he said \u201cI think we are all still reeling a little bit, thinking about what this involves and what is at stake.\u201d Nothing new was added by the responsible Minister, and it was pointed out that she failed to address concerns raised by UNHCR (from paragraph 68 of their\u00a0legal observations on the Bill<\/a>), which had been explicitly referred to in the debate. \u00a0<\/p>\n

You have probably seen some of the recent reports of European tourists being detained at the US border. None of them should have been detained, let alone for such lengthy periods of time, however it should serve as a real wake up call of the importance of being aware of the restrictions on visitor\/tourist visas and the potentially very serious consequences of a breach. At least some of the cases I have seen seem to have involved people\u00a0actually intending to carry out some form of work<\/a>, which is not permitted under the terms of the visa they sought to enter on. Alex Piletska\u00a0covered this issue for us in great form recently<\/a>\u00a0and I said at the time that the principles in there would apply to other countries as well.<\/p>\n

Quite bizarrely, given their extensive coverage of these cases, the Guardian then published an article recommending that people who are backpacking\u00a0work in exchange for accommodation<\/a>, without flagging up any of the risks if this is done without the correct visa.<\/p>\n

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On Free Movement, we had a\u00a0new statement of changes<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday and the 0.4% of asylum claims that are from Trinidad & Tobago have apparently \u201cadded significantly to operational pressures at the border and resulted in frontline resource being diverted from other operational priorities\u201d to the point where it was necessary to place them on the visa national list with immediate effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0latest quarterly tribunal statistics<\/a>\u00a0were also released last week and the asylum appeal backlog continues to soar, but I think we also need to start paying attention to the fact that we have not had any data on Upper Tribunal appeals since 2021\/22. Both HMCTS and the Home Office are withholding increasing amounts of data based on \u201cdatabase migration\u201d that show no signs of ever actually being completed. And when these projects are completed, will the missing data gaps be filled in?<\/p>\n

We also had some case write ups, including on a\u00a0successful challenge to refusal of compensation<\/a>\u00a0under the Windrush scheme. And Chris Benn has updated his post on\u00a0absences from the UK and the EU Settlement Scheme<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 essential reading for everyone with leave in this route or working on these cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For\u00a0everything else on Free Movement and elsewhere, read on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cheers, Sonia<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re reading<\/h2>\n

Why denying citizenship to refugees matters so much<\/a>, Colin\u2019s Substack, 14 March<\/p>\n

\u2018I can\u2019t believe I had to prove I\u2019m British\u2019<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 BBC News, 13 March<\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s Immigration Policy<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 London Review of Books, 20 March<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m proud of being a refugee who came to the UK\u2019<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 BBC News, 12 March<\/p>\n

New estimate \u2018shows scale of exploitation on Wild West care visa route\u2019<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Independent, 12 March<\/p>\n

How not to be deported: India\u2019s nurses seeking work abroad learn how to migrate safely<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The Guardian, 12 March<\/p>\n

Flawed UK visa scheme led to \u2018horrific\u2019 care worker abuse, says watchdog<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The Observer, 16 March<\/p>\n

Home Office announces new immigration policy changes<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 NHS Employers, 13 March<\/p>\n

Exploited, recognised as a slavery victim, now facing deportation: one seafarer\u2019s UK ordeal<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The Guardian, 15 March<\/p>\n

Citizenship: A race to the bottom?<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IPPR, 10 March<\/p>\n

IMA Welcomes Amendments to Proposed Immigration Legislation<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Independent Monitoring Authority, 11 March<\/p>\n

Foreign criminals to face Home Office tagging<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 BBC News, 14 March<\/p>\n

Reflections on \u201cSupply Chain Justice: The Logistics of Border Control\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 AVID, 11 March<\/p>\n

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