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Fighting for migrant rights since 1983. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees can live with safety, dignity & respect.
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Did you know that 4 million people could soon struggle to prove their basic rights?
The Govt. plans to overhaul how we prove our immigration status and is moving to a digital only system.
It's crucial we raise awareness. Share NOW!
For more info:
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🎉INCREDIBLE NEWS! 🎉
The Government has just announced a permanent extension of free school meals to ALL families affected by No Recourse to Public Funds! (1/8)
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We spent 11 hrs at
@ukhomeoffice
advocating for a family of 4 homeless asylum seekers (including a 5yo) so they could get a place for the night.HO refused bc they had £200 cash & "weren't destitute".We didn't leave til the decision was overturned & they had a roof over their head
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Double celebration this week:Albert got treatment confirmed AND was confirmed that he has right to live in UK. It took an endless series of media interviews and parliament debates to get here-what about all those who aren’t in the spotlight?
@ameliagentleman
@StMungos
@JCWI_UK
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We will always stand with migrants and refugees.
We will always stand against hatred and hostility.
#StopTheBill
#RefugeesWelcome
#SafeAndLegalRoutes
now!
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A woman escaping domestic violence just came to us. Her local authority would not house her because she has the words
#NoRecourseToPublicFunds
printed on her visa, making her street homeless during a global pandemic, putting her and everyone else at risk of
#COVID2019
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🚨🚨We took our
#StopTheWaiting
campaign to No.10 Downing Street to tell this govt we need shorter & more affordable routes to settlement now!
Watch Praxis campaigners tell you why...
Share our message and take action. The fight is not over.
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The whole of Praxis wants to give a massive thank you to our receptionist Ruksana who has been one of the only staff coming in almost every day, sending documents to service users and the Home Office, making sure that we can carry on providing vital immigration advice
#keyworker
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Are you looking for good news? High Court just ruled that
#NRPF
is unlawful & breaches the Human Rights Act, as it forces 1000s to extreme poverty;among them many of the people we help at Praxis. Congrats to
@UnityProjectLdn
and
@dpg_law
for this success!
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The House of Lords sat until nearly 4am this morning debating the
#AntiRefugeeBill
. For anyone who couldn’t stay up all night, here’s just a *tiny* flavour of some of the changes peers have been tirelessly pushing for 👇(1/6)
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🎉Great news!🎉
The House of Lords inflicted big defeats on the Nationality and Borders Bill last Night - peers said:
NO to discriminating against refugees based on how they travel!
NO to citizenship-stripping powers!
YES to the right to work for asylum seekers!
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Thank you to the 45 organisations who signed on to our letter urging the Government to rethink the Borders Bill. No-one should be penalised just because of the route they take to seek safety. Read in full here 👉
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We are excited and honored to share that we have been chosen as one of the beneficiaries of this year
@guardian
appeal for our work bringing the Windrush scandal and hostile environment injustices to light
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Success! In April a woman called us, her leave expiring in 48 hours and no one was able to help with her application. Our caseworker powered through for 2 days and managed to submit an application in record time... and we just found out that it was successful!
#FridayFeeling
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Yesterday we took the petition 50,000 of you signed directly to Rishi Sunak's door
Our message is loud & clear: migrants & refugees are always welcome here
The cruel Refugee Ban Bill may have passed, but we won't stop fighting for a compassionate society
#CompassionNotCruelty
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard, London’s Deputy Mayor for Communities and Social Justice, will be joining Praxis in 2022 as Chair of the Board of Trustees!
We look forward to welcoming
@debs_wb
to the Praxis team.
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💔The minimum income requirement tears families apart.
This
#ValentinesDay
we joined
@MigrantVoiceUK
and
@ReuniteDivFamil
to hand in petitions to
@RishiSunak
signed by over 250,000 people who oppose the planned changes.
#loveinlimbo
#familiesbelongtogether
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🚨Campaign launch!🚨
We believe that all children living in poverty should get free school meals. Ask your MP to help make free school meals available to all children who need them, no matter their parents’ immigration status 👉
#FreeSchoolMealsForAll
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Stop The Waiting.
We all want to feel like we belong but some of us are denied any security by a cruel immigration system, involving stressful, costly visa applications for decades - even though our lives + futures are in the UK.
Join the campaign here:
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Success! We helped a mother of 2 to get leave to remain - despite living in the UK since she was a child, because of unfair immigration rules she was never able to get a visa.
After living in limbo for years, her and her two children can finally be safe.
#CharityTuesday
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It took us 1 year to secure leave to remain for a 19 y/o woman who came to the uk when she was 2. Without a visa she missed out on uni this year, but the decision from
@ukhomeoffice
finally arrived - she is now able to move on with her life. She just sent us flowers & we are 😍
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Take the price tag off love
@JamesCleverly
!💔
In April the minimum income required for people to live with their foreign partner will increase to £29k - 50% of Brits don’t earn this amount.
This Valentine's Day, email your MP about this heartless policy:
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Good news just came in - a woman came to see us in March after she lost her husband, a British citizen. Alone and with no recourse to public funds, she was at risk of losing her accommodation. It took us 8 months, but she now has indefinite leave to remain and secure housing.
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We helped a family of 4 to get visas. The amount of evidence required by
@ukhomeoffice
even for the simplest applications is so vast that it took us days just to go through all transactions on their bank accounts - time that we could have spent helping more people in need. 1/2
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BREAKING: the police tried to stop our banner drop
This World Refugee Day, we couldn’t let them silence us: REFUGEES WELCOME, ALWAYS
📍Parliament, London
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Straight from Praxis office: one of our caseworkers just rung a client to tell her that she finally got Indefinite Leave to Remain.
Everyone in the room could hear the screams of joy at the other side of the phone. Big smiles on everyone's faces here.
Today is a good one.
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In the four years since the
#Windrush
scandal, all we’ve seen is the Home Office failing to right the wrongs of the past.
There needs to be justice for the Windrush generation, now.
#WindrushDay2022
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New on
@guardian
on Albert and response to his story. Just read the article to him on the phone, he said he’s going to bed with a smile on his face. Thank you
@ameliagentleman
@quiline
and all those who’ve supported us and him!
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⚠Rishi, stop pitting working people against each other ⚠
Our statement on Rishi's announcement to increase visa fees and the NHS surcharge to help fund a public sector pay rise...
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Unfair immigration rules make it impossible for thousands of young people like Vitoria to go to uni.
It shouldn't be
@taylorswift13
's job to secure them access to education:
@ukhomeoffice
needs to scrap rules wasting young people's talent
@WeBelong19
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Let ALL families access childcare now!
Thousands of children are locked out of childcare, simply because of the fine print of their parents' visas.
We’ve launched a petition to Education Secretary
@GillianKeegan
demanding
#ChildcareForAll
- sign today!
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We are very excited to announce that from today we join partners
@Shelter
@Thamesreach
@Stonewallhousin
&
@StMungos
to deliver the innovative STAR project. Working across 33 boroughs, we will provide advice and support to people who are at risk of homelessness and have
#NRPF
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#NoRecourseToPublicFunds
condition should be removed for all migrants, so that they can have the economic stability needed to self isolate, making themselves and everyone else safe.
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This is a migrant tax.
People building their lives here & paying taxes to fund our NHS will see a 68% fee hike to be able access the healthcare they help fund.
It punishes some of the most vulnerable in society for being born outside the UK.
Learn more👉
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We just started helping a mother and her son. He's 18 months, and before we met them they were sleeping rough.
It will take every minute in the day of our caseworker just to understand what path in the labyrinth of the immigration system the family should follow to be safe.
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50,000 people & 270 organisations say: everyone has human rights.
We stand against the Refugee Ban Bill.
We stand for compassion and kindness.
The fight isn't over.
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Massive congrats to
@_KRAN_
for being awarded the Hans Albrecht Foundation Human Rights Award 2022 for their work supporting young refugees in Kent!
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First good news of 2020! A woman came to us after having been denied leave to remain 4 times, even if she had been taking care of her British mother full time since 2014. It took us 5 months to gather all the evidence, but yesterday she was finally granted leave to remain.
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Our service user Michelle saves lives while working for the NHS: "I see people die every day, I see terrible things that I will never forget in my life." Despite her service,
@ukhomeoffice
is asking her to pay £2000+ to renew her visa.
@JCWI_UK
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Thank you to all of the supporters and allies who joined our call to make sure that free school meals stayed available to all children who need them, no matter their parents' immigration status. (3/8)
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Here are our NRPF action group campaigners, who we co-created the campaign with, celebrating the great news 🙌 (4/8)
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We are so proud of
@ameliagentleman
for this achievement and honored for having worked with her to uncover the
#WindrushScandal
. It is fantastic to have such a great journalist as an ally fighting for migrants’ rights.
Huge congratulations to
@ameliagentleman
for her win of the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism for her
@guardian
Windrush investigation
@PrivateEyeNews
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"It's really hard to hear Suella Braverman say such ludicrous things when you have clients telling you they're suicidal because they can't get off the streets." Praxis legal advisor
Let's be clear, people are on the streets because of the political choices of this government.
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Over 60,000 of us oppose this vile and inhumane Anti Refugee Bill.
We all stand for compassion and kindness, not hostility and cruelty.
#StopTheBill
#RefugeesWelcome
#RefugeeBanBill
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Today, we handed in our
#StopTheWaiting
petition to No.10 Downing Street telling this Govt that we need to scrap the 10-year route & stop the unaffordable fees.
Share our message 🔊
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
#HostileRoutes
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The 10 year route to settlement has been cut down to 5 years for young migrants in the UK! Congratulations to
@WeBelong19
on this amazing news and their tireless work to make it happen - it's an incredible step forward 👏👏👏
We Belong response to the new Home Office concession.
For further information:
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We’re horrified to hear the Home Secretary describe sleeping rough as a “lifestyle choice,” while it’s her department’s policies that are pushing people onto the streets🧵
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A woman called our advice line: her leave to remain is expiring tomorrow and due to lockdown she has been unable to access support anywhere else. If free immigration advice was already difficult to find,now it’s almost impossible. Many people are slipping into being undocumented.
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COMPASSION NOT CRUELTY
We've joined with 60+ charities, NGOs and human rights organisations to reject the cruel Illegal Migration Bill in its entirety to protect everyone’s rights.
We're calling on Parliament to
#StopTheBill
to save lives.
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🚨London Mayor introduces free school meals for ALL primary school children in London from September 2023 🚨
Too many kids living in poverty continue to miss out in the existing system - this will make a HUGE difference to many families we work with
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“I wanted to make my life in the UK and contribute, but I don’t feel safe here any more. The
@ukhomeoffice
has behaved in such a cruel, legally indefensible and economically illogical way that I have completely lost faith in the British state.”
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The rejection of the extension of
#FreeSchoolMeals
during the holidays is shameful and incomprehensible. These provide a lifeline, in particular for children in need whose parents have no recourse to public funds & are left without access to a safety net
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Some good news today✨
After years of legal fights involving solicitors, strenuous back and forth with the Home Office, hours upon hours of casework, lots of patience and sacrifices, a mother we support finally got her visa.
Her and her child can now start building their life.
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Rishi and Suella say they’re going to strip people seeking safety of their human rights because “that’s what the British public want”.
Let’s show them how wrong they are.
Add your name ⤵️⤵️
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The Inhumane Migration Act is
#NotInOurName
🔊Share the action with your friends!
✍Take action and sign the joint open letter to the Prime Minister
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@JCWI_UK
We just spoke with one of our service users, a single mum, who has been left with no support whatsoever during the pandemic. She’ll be thrilled to know that
@BorisJohnson
is going to change this.
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10 years ago today, Theresa May announced her plan to create “a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants.”
We’ve seen the consequences of this for the past decade: lives ruined, or even ended, simply because someone doesn’t have the ‘right’ paperwork. (🧵)
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We believe that all children who need them should get free school meals. Ask your MP to help make free school meals available to all children, no matter their parents’ immigration status:
#FreeSchoolMealsForAll
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Fantastic achievement: in a great U-turn from the government, people like our service user Michelle working for the NHS and saving lives won't have to pay for the NHS surcharge as part of their visa.
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Some good news just came in - a woman in her 70s came to Praxis in Feb: her visa almost expired, she had no access to public support&had to keep working despite her age. We worked on her case for 6 months: her visa has now been extended and she'll be able to finally retire.
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As we are trying to make sense of new immigration rules that will make rough sleeping ground for refusal of leave to remain, we are also trying to submit as many applications as possible before Tuesday, when immigration health surcharge are due to jump from £400 to £624 a year.
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So thrilled to have won! This is a big commendation for our incredible housing team and our wonderful partners
@CommonwealTweet
Next, Innovation in Housing 🏠
🥁 And the winner is . . . 🥁
@CommonwealTweet
for their No Recourse to Public Funds project, buying with funding, 7 properties to lease to Praxis Community Projects who provide specialist support to occupants.
Congrats!
#UnderOneRoof2019
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Today, while MPs debate the Refugee Ban Bill again, we're taking our petition to govt with
@FreefromTorture
,
@RefugeeTogether
&
@freedomunitedHQ
to stand against these cruel & inhumane plans.
Together, we can show this govt that we won't stand for this:
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We deeply oppose these cruel plans.
Every person, regardless of what they look like or where they are from, should be treated with dignity & respect.
This inhumane policy is trying to divide people & drive hostility towards those seeking safety here.
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It is an attack on mixed-nationality families.
The govt. increased the minimum amount a spouse must make by £20k to £38.7k for a family visa. 75% of Brits don't make £38.7k.
75% of Brits are now unable to live w. the person they love if they happen to have a different passport.
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"Mothers and children are being made homeless at a week’s notice."
This govt's policy change is leaving more and more vulnerable people at risk of exploitation and facing homelessness.
That's why we signed
@refugeecouncil
letter demanding change.
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Our immigration adviser is currently helping three generations of the same family to get through the Windrush task force and get papers to confirm their status - the youngest is 2 years old.
#Windrush
is not just about elderly people, it scarred generations
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'The harm of being denied your citizenship rights in the only country you truly know cannot be overstated.' Thank you for speaking out for children in the UK
@BellRibeiroAddy
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Good news never come alone -
@Praxis_Projects
has just been shortlisted for
@PRWeekAwards
Best Cause-led campaign for our work on
#windrushscandal
with
@IMiX_UK
@JCWI_UK
@RunnymedeTrust
@RMCentre
Great to be able to count on so many allies across sectors and among the public!
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Our legal team works tirelessly so that migrants can live safely and in dignity.
@ukhomeoffice
attacks on lawyers – linking them with traffickers and those ‘playing and profiting from the system’ – is unacceptable.
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This is amazing news. The £1k+ fees for citizenship held back so many children and young people from being formally recognised as British. This ruling will allow so many people to obtain the documents they need to move forward with their lives. Well done to all those involved!
*BREAKING*
Amazing news!
Sky-high
#HomeOffice
child citizenship fees have been ruled unlawful! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🙌 🙌 🙌
More details coming soon.
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537
2K
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As we are preparing for a new lockdown, it is essential that everyone is protected and can safely self isolate. This includes migrants facing homelessness - they have been protected during the first wave, we need to make sure that they can be safe now too
#EverybodyIn
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At a committee hearing, PM
@BorisJohnson
just said, referring to families on
#NRPF
: "People who live and work in this country should be able to access one kind of support or another". We couldn’t agree more and look forward to seeing the right changes implemented
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We are so proud to have been a part of this incredible campaign to make sure that all eligible kids can access free school meals, regardless of their parents' immigration status ❤️
Onwards 💪
After yrs of organising, all children who are eligible, regardless of parents' immigration status, can claim
#FreeSchoolMeals
! 🎉
Schools will also be able to claim more
#PupilPremium
by recording this in the census (Feb 15)!
How we got here ⬇️
@IMIX_UK
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"We are talking about some of the most persecuted and endangered of humanity who are not motivated by legislation when they catch the train or drive their car or get into boats but...by a desire to enjoy a freer and better way of life."
Powerful words from Lord Cormack.
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Spending the day in Brighton with the families living in our
#NRPF
housing project - for many of the kids it was the first time they’ve seen the sea.
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Great news today! one of our Windrush service users was just recognised as a British national - and he originally came from...Bangladesh. Just a reminder that not all the victims of
#WindrushScandal
are from the Caribbean.
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"I had no place to go, no one to turn to." Jane was homeless but now lives in a Praxis home. "The house is really good for me and my daughter. I’m now thinking positively." Read more in
@guardiannews
article by
@karenmcveigh1
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Powerful words from
@ApsanaBegumMP
showcasing the devastating effects of NRPF on women seeking safety.
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We are delighted to be shortlisted by
@TSEAwards
for the Charity Partnership Award for our work uncovering the
#WindrushScandal
, holding
@ukhomeoffice
accountable and making sure that migrants’ rights are respected in collab with with
@JCWI
@iMix
@RunnymedeTrust
and
@RMCEntre
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Remember when
@stephenctimms
secured a promise from Boris Johnson to look into No Recourse to Public Funds and help people in poverty?
We do. That was 18 months ago. And we're still waiting.
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Following yday statement by
@BorisJohnson
we urge him "to lift NRPF restrictions swiftly and completely. [...So] that people do not have to choose between their and the public health and being able to feed and house their families."
@JCWI_UK
@TUPLDN
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Children and young people are getting ready to go
#BackToSchool
. We welcome the decision that families on
#NRPF
will have access to
#FreeSchoolMeals
during the Autumn term - meaning that thousands of children won't go hungry in the next few months.
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Our first session is kicked off by
@tomcopley
from
@MayorofLondon
. “We can’t end rough sleeping for good without ending it for non-uk nationals.”
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“As long as such projects will lack clarity about the processes involved, and how client data would be used by the Home Office, we will not refer our service users into any such initiative, and we will strongly encourage our partners not to do so either”
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Today, peers debate the
#BordersBill
again. With our partners, we’re calling on them to keep up the fight to stop the Government discriminating against refugees based on how they travelled to the UK. More here 👉
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An incredible 180 people affected by
#NRPF
have generously shared their experiences of the cost of living crisis with us 🙏
We'd love to reach 200 by Friday! Can you help?
@RAMFELCharity
@JCWI_UK
@magpieprojectuk
@GMIAU
@MigrantVoiceUK
@CityofSanctuary
@childrensociety
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The UK High Court just ruled that it's legal to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
If you are someone who just crossed the Channel in a desperate quest for safety, today is a frightening day.
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We're horrified to read today that the Govt. is considering plans to allocate social housing based not on need, but on nationality.
Strict rules already in place mean that only UK citizens and people with permanent residency can access social housing. 1/2
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We are a small charity, but we aim high - we want to see a world where migrants are not defined by the challenges they face, & everyone can live in safety. To make it there we need everybody's help: find out how you could change someone's life here
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As we move into a new lockdown, the government must make sure everyone is safe – no matter where they or their parents were born.
That means food and shelter; support as unemployment soars; a refuge if escaping domestic violence.
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How is evicting people seeking asylum onto the streets, DURING A PANDEMIC, in line with
@pritipatel
promise to have a more human approach to migration?
We are among hundreds of organisations asking to reverse this decision. Action needs to come now.
#StopAsylumEvictions
ICYMI: Today hundreds of migrants' rights organisations wrote to
@10DowningStreet
and
@pritipatel
to say loud and clear:
#StopAsylumEvictions
.
The decision to evict thousands of people into homelessness during a deadly pandemic is inhumane.
Full letter:
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All people escaping domestic abuse need to be able to access refuges - no matter where they were born. As the
#DomesticAbuseBill
goes back to
@UKHouseofLords
for its second reading, check
@lawrsuk
new video explaining the issues at stake for migrant women:
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Check out Pal Hansen’s exhibition ‘Windrush-Leave to Remain?’ 📷
In celebration of
#Windrush75
, we are hosting this powerful exhibition featuring portraits and stories of people affected by the Windrush Scandal.
All images © Pål Hansen
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1/We are proud to have signed this letter to
@Keir_Starmer
@UKLabour
alongside 50+ organisations, calling for routes to residency to be capped at 5 years with visa fees set at cost price.
It is time the cycle of precarity & poverty, created by this Gov's 10-year route, is broken
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Jeremiah & his family went through months of poverty after he lost his job in March. He didn't feed himself to make sure his children had something to eat, while debt was mounting. Inhumane migration policies such as
#NRPF
need to go
@ClaudiaWebbe
@JCWI_UK
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It's
#smallcharityweek
- as we launch our campaign
#livingindignity
we reflect on the small charities making waves to end
#NRPF
& to support those who suffer its impact.
Thank you
@TUPLDN
@Project17UK
@magpieprojectuk
@SLRAcharity
&
@TwMCuk
for punching way above your weight💥
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Together with 46 others, we wrote to ministers to raise concerns that Clause 11 of the
#BordersBIll
will drive thousands more refugees to destitution and homelessness every year - the Government didn't listen but let's hope Lords will send them a strong message again today.
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