Useful Updates

New Refugees 

We are seeing people who have been granted refugee status being evicted from asylum support accommodation and turned away by local authority housing departments. We have two PAPs on this, one for people in priority need or who may be in priority need, and one for others who the Local Authority has a power to provide accommodation. Please do contact us if you are seeing people forced into destitution as a result of the lack of accommodation provided. 

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E-Visa Training Session 

We provided a training session on the new e-visa system introduced from 1st December. Click here to view the recording of the training session.

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Hotel Cases

There are two new PAPs - one about children in hotels long term, and the other about dormitories in hostels being used long term. In absence of any particular circumstances which make the situations more urgent, use these for people in hostel / hotels for more than 8 weeks.

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There is a new expert report from three eminent medics which should be attached to any PAP about families in B&B / hotel accommodation. See here

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Barracks & Barges cases

There are now PAPs for people moved / being moved to barracks and bargets. This followed the High Court finding that Napier Barracks provided inadequate accommodation for asylum seekers, that the Defendant’s process for selecting people to be accommodated at the Barracks was flawed and unlawful. See here

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Rwanda cases

Anyone in this situation should seek legal advice

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Manston Cases

The government unlawfully detained a large number of people in Manston where conditions were awful, including insufficient food / bedding etc. We have prepared a Subject Access Request that can be used for anyone who was detained, which can be sent off pending their instructing lawyers in relation to any damages claim. Many people have been rehoused in substandard hotels without access to healthcare, and a PAP on this is also being prepared.

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