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10 February 2021
Watch again: Highly Skilled Migrants Report Launch
New Report: Highly Skilled Migrants: Indefinite Leave to Remain Refusals & Covid-19 Realities The criminalisation of the UK’s Highly Skilled Migrants (HSMs) and implications for wider migrant…
10 February 2021
Highly Skilled Migrants: Our Response To The Home Office
This is MRN’s official response to the Home Office: The statement from Kevin Foster, minister for future borders and immigration, in your article (Skilled Commonwealth migrants still…
10 February 2021
The Independent: ‘Living like prisoners’: Skilled migrants waiting for justice years after Home Office policy ruled unlawful
Nearly two years after government decision to strip highly skilled people of their rights was ruled to be ‘legally flawed’, dozens remain trapped in destitution, new report…
9 February 2021
Challenging Immigration Raids
This week (8th Feb 2021), MRN met with the Challenging Immigration Raids lawyers’ network. This network convened in 2018 and comprises lawyers and activists collaborating on advice,…
1 February 2021
New Report: Highly Skilled Migrants: Indefinite Leave to Remain Refusals & Covid-19 Realities
We all need a secure place to call home and we all want to ensure that the UK emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic as a strong, cohesive…
1 February 2021
Home Office fostered disproportionate and racially discriminatory immigration policies for UK’s Highly Skilled Migrants
Investigative report on the UK’s Highly Skilled Commonwealth Migrants of colour finds that ‘inhuman’ Home Office policies are not only costly to local authorities, they are also…
27 January 2021
The Guardian: Skilled Commonwealth migrants still facing ‘unlawful’ deportation
More than 70 people refused right to remain despite 2019 ruling that Home Office misused Immigration Act, report finds. Dozens of highly skilled migrants from Commonwealth countries…
21 January 2021
27th Jan 2021 – Discrimination & Destitution: The UKs Highly Skilled Migrants
The APPG for Immigration Law and Policy, Operation Black Vote, Migrants’ Rights Network, Garden Court Chambers and Highly Skilled UK invite you to a report launch and…
14 January 2021
January 2021 Newsletter: Highly Skilled Migrants: Destitute & Fighting To Remain In The UK
In March 2019, MRN successfully intervened on behalf of a number of migrants and their families in the Balajigari case after the Tier 1 General visa scheme…
14 January 2021
The New Points-Based Immigration System
At the end of last year, the new points-based immigration system came into effect and whilst the most explicit changes around Brexit and ending EU free movement…