NCADC – blog

In this update: Commentaries highlighting the inconsistencies and ommisions in four UK Border Agency country specific Operational Guidance Notes; Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) launches new website; New UKBA Country of Origin Information reports on China and Zimbabwe, and Operational Guidance Note on Sudan; Unlawful detention case;

The UK Government must conduct a complete and radical overhaul of the current system of enforced removals from the UK, according to a new briefing and campaign launched today (7 July) by Amnesty International UK. Private security companies, contracted by the UK Government, have reportedly used dangerous and improper control and restraint techniques. In the [...]

G4S, the global security services company, is bidding to provide accommodation and services for asylum seekers across the UK. They have invited interested parties to talk to them about the proposals at a series of events. The contract is worth £135.5 million a year in total, broken down into six regions with several companies and [...]

Click to download leaflet (pdf) Glasgow, Saturday 2 July at STUC, 333 Woodlands Road conference: 11am – 2pm AGM: 2pm – 3pm The NCADC AGM and Conference is open to all who support the rights of refugees and migrants. You don’t have to be a member to attend, but you do have to be a [...]

Country of Origin Information (COI) is central to refugee status determination. However, the Research Unit at (sadly now defunct) Immigration Advisory Service highlighted serious concerns about the quality of initial decision making in asylum claims in the UK, and in particular the use/misuse of COI. You can download the IAS research into COI here (pdf) [...]

A round-up of some recent parliamentary activity: Detention: Children in Detention Entry Clearance Decisions Asylum: number of applicants Asylum: Change in student visas

Blogging around the campaigns – NCADC volunteers explore some of the latest issue affecting migrant rights 27 March 2011 David Shortland, NCADC Campaigns Volunteer As the conflict in Libya rages on, the number of refugees produced has steadily increased. The UNHCR has called on the international community to step up to the mark by supporting [...]

Today the Mid Sussex Council voted to approve the planning of the UKBA’s latest children detention facility 14 to 1. Around 30 protestors met outside the Council building playing music, holding banners and handing out information to those attending the meeting. Three objectors were permitted to present arguments against the detention centre during the meeting [...]

A round-up of some recent parliamentary questions: Detention: Children – separated when one parent is detained; Detention: Children – when will detention of children end? Detention: Children – a formal time limit on the detention of children? Asylum – speeding up the processing of asylum applications? Asylum – progress on ‘legacy’ case resolution; Immigration control [...]

Blogging around the campaigns – NCADC volunteers explore some of the latest issue affecting migrant rights 14 March 2011 David Shortland, NCADC Campaigns Volunteer Three hundred Greek hunger striking migrants (Guardian)  have been vindicated. On the 13th of March, a statement was released by the hunger strikers: “The struggle is complete. With the documents in [...]