Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz 🧡
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I feel physically sick. My right to live with my husband - my *children's* right to live with their *dad* - is contingent on me earning £38,700. This is an increase of £20,000. Overnight.
key points:
- Ban on care workers bringing in dependents
- Minimum salary for foreign skilled workers hiked to £38.7K
- Shortage occupation list scrapped
- Minimum income to bring in spouse raised to £38,700
- Two year graduate visa reviewed
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Last night, with absolutely no fanfare whatsoever, parliament passed a 66% increase to the NHS surcharge.
This migrant tax now means that people will pay £1,035 every year to access the NHS, no matter their contributions to the system via tax or NI.
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@ladyofstars74
@Patrici89225734
Still a bit unclear - the minister said something about not applying to people who are already here on a family visa, but most of these last for 30 months max, so even if doesn't apply right now, likely to apply in the future.
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@medicnegligence
I don't have to be here, but I have a right to be here and a right to have a family life in this country, just like every other British citizen.
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The suggestion that marrying someone who is not a British national and having the audacity to earn less than the median income is ABUSE is so outrageously offensive I don't know where to start
The level of net migration is too high.
Today we’re announcing a new plan to reduce immigration and curb the abuse of our visa system.
Here is what we're doing 🧵👇
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On my way to London with this guy to tell the PM exactly how we feel about his plans to make having a mixed-nationality family a preserve of the rich (spoiler alert: we’re not wild about it)
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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So this is on us too, is it? We are the ones who should be challenging plain clothes police? Headlines this morning making me want to cry/smash things
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@medicnegligence
That was already the case before this announcement - where the threshold is placed doesn't change this.
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Oh have a day off love
In tomorrow’s
@Telegraph
, I set out the five tests that the Prime Minister’s emergency legislation must meet to stop the boats.
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Holding my kids extra tight and feeling grateful that I’ve never had to contemplate climbing into a dinghy in the middle of December with them just to feel safe.
No-one should have to.
#saferoutesnow
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Conservative MPs getting on the radio and using the Rwanda plan as an example of Johnson govt law breaking, just a short month after voting through the Nationality and Borders Act without a peep are Too Much for me this morning
#r4today
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Peers and MPs like Meg Hillier raised big questions about how exactly the Home Office arrived at this figure - and just last week the minister was unable to answer. But it’s passed anyway.
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I have been both soaked to the skin AND sun burned today in an effort to hang a perfectly innocuous banner from Westminster Bridge and let me tell you I was already *livid* that doing something so harmless seems to be no longer possible in this country
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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How are we allowed to go on thinking our lives and lifestyles have no consequences?
So much trash clothing is being dumped in Kenya—37 million items from the EU, alone—that locals have started burning them. This is the cost of fast fashion.
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If I got sick or lost my job, I'd no longer earn the minimum amount the government says I must to live in this country with my non-British citizen husband.
Their response would be to kick him out, leaving our kids separated from their dad.
Who does this help?
Reunite Families UK is extremely disappointed by the response received on behalf of the Prime Minister to the letter we coordinated that asked for the Minimum Income Requirement not to be increased and instead to be scrapped altogether.
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@dovtrams
they shouldn't have to pay twice, though, which they currently have to do as they're paying national insurance AND this fee.
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Just finished rereading The Glass Palace, 10 years after I first read it - loved it even more this time around.
@GhoshAmitav
is a genius ❤️
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This is a truly terrifying step. The idea that the Home Office, which is already responsible for so much incompetence (not to mention suffering), could be the "legal parent" of all children who arrive here alone seeking safety is utter madness.
We feared this might happen… The govt’s now planning to further entrench the separate system it has created for children seeking asylum by making the Home Office ‘corporate parent’ & denying them the protections they should be afforded under the Children Act 1989.
Just awful.
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Excited and energised to be with a roomful of people campaigning for a fairer visa and settlement process. Thanks to
@MigrantVoiceUK
for bringing us together!
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@aliyabidi
@cochetel
@Refugees
Amen. This is an absolutely nonsensical position to take, not to mention incredibly insulting.
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Grim stats on homelessness out today - even grimmer for non-UK nationals
⚠️88% year on year⬆️in non-UK, non-EU nationals rough sleeping in UK
⚠️109%⬆️in hh facing homelessness after eviction from asylum accom
⚠️209%⬆️in hh *actually* homeless after eviction frm asylum accom
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Another example of global Britain at work
Story in Sunday Times about Ukrainian nanny resident in UK for 6 years unable to get her 8 year old daughter into the UK.
This is thanks to Johnson whom
#DailyFail
calls ‘a burgeoning international statesman’.
Meanwhile the EU is giving 3-year visa-free protection.
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Today we publish new research exposing how the 10-year route to settlement hurts people making their homes in this country.
A toxic mix of
❌Extortionate costs
❌Temporary visas
❌Lack of legal aid or support
leaves people desperately insecure for 10yrs+
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I can't escape the feeling that by fighting against yet another revolting immigration bill, we're somehow just playing a part in phase 1 of a Tory general election campaign.
Ofc we can't just stand by while this happens, but we can't do what we usually do.
But what CAN we do?
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6 year old currently making me a star chart. For every day that I can manage not to yell, I get a smiley face. If I get a whole row of smiley faces, he’ll give me a reward. Take that.
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A million children whose parents can’t afford to keep them warm, fed, clean and housed.
And a *155%* increase in the number of migrant children living like this in three years.
Things are getting worse...
Between 2019 and 2022, there was a huge 155% increase in the number of migrant children living in destitution.
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Absolutely amazing news! Well done to everyone that helped make this happen🙌 (but also: how low have we fallen that it's taken months of intensive work to make sure we're not locking up PREGNANT PEOPLE INDEFINITELY?)
👏BRILLIANT NEWS!👏
Following the resounding vote in the House of Lords last week, the Government has AGREED to maintain the 72-hour time limit on the detention of pregnant women.
This small but vital amendment will protect pregnant women and their unborn babies.
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Catching up on last night's episode of
#BordersBill
ping pong. Lords debate as inspiring as we've come to expect. Commons utterly cringe. What is this?
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This morning, advisers at
@Praxis_Projects
are already getting calls from people utterly bewildered by this decision and terrified about what it’s going to mean for them.
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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This is the bit of the bill I find the most frightening because I think this is where most people will end up - IF it passes. In permanent limbo, no right to work, dependent on a miserly state for support, vulnerable to increasingly violent right wing attack - FOREVER
"So tens of thousands of people every year will be added to the Home Office backlog, except this will be a permanent backlog that they're not ever going to even try and clear."
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'Everyone In' showed that getting people off the streets really isn't as complex as it's been made out to be for so long. It also showed that one-off acts of 'benevolence' on the part of central govt are no substitute for actually solving deep-seated problems
In today’s
@FT
, p22: Progress on finding people shelter might be slipping away, by
@RKWinvisibleman
following visit to
@GlassDoorLondon
accommodation project for people experiencing
#homelessness
, with comment from
@ben_benjamin3
and
@crisis_uk
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From today, visa fees are going up - some by as much as 35%.
These are fees that people who've been living in our communities for many years - people whose lives and futures are are in the UK - have no choice about paying.
This has to change. A🧵
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What a line up at
@Praxis_Projects
ending migrant homelessness conference. Great to see such a wide range of stakeholders coming together to talk about how we really end homelessness for everyone, for good
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If you want to help the
#Turkey
#earthquake
relief effort, donating money is the best thing most of us can do. Here are some orgs you can give to who will make sure your money is put to best use
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Super proud to have been part of the dream team working on this over the last 6 months.
Huge thanks to everyone that made it possible, including the amazing members of the NRPF Action Group and the 300+ ppl who shared their experiences so generously with us.
Today we launch a report on the impacts of the “10-year route to settlement”.
Lots to say, but key concerns of the route include:
💰 the high cost of visa fees
🚨 potential for losing legal status
⚖️ lack of legal aid & support
We need change.
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Excited to be at the launch of
@Brighter_Praxis
housing manifesto tonight, where young people are calling for
✅ the right to privacy
✅ safe and clean homes for all
✅no forced relocation
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Put perfectly as always by
@ZoeJardiniere
- in what world is this a good idea, with our ageing population and creaking care system? Why not look at what's making people lose their immigration status in the first place, so they don't need to live in fear and poverty?
This is abhorrent.
People working to care for our elderly, vulnerable and disabled, arrested for having the wrong passports in the name of the hostile environment and nothing else.
Who wants this? What kind of priorities are these for a government with a care system in tatters?
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It's a shame the
@ukhomeoffice
didn't bother to read
@Praxis_Projects
@GMIAU
@IPPR
report before commenting.
If they had, they'd know the 10-yr route actually:
❌creates huge financial hardship
❌stymies integration
❌pushes people out of status
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“I have nothing but contempt for people who use this inflammatory rhetoric. We just had a terrorist attack on a migrant centre. You can believe in border control and NOT use language that puts people in danger” - couldn’t agree more with
@tomcopley
speaking
@Praxis_Projects
conf
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Lolling at Electoral Commission on
#r4today
saying we need to gather data to understand why people were turned away at polling stations yesterday. I’ll play Jonathan Creek and solve it for you: Voter ID was introduced to fix a problem that didn’t exist and not everyone has ID.
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How many times does this need repeating? Resettlement is NOT an alternative to direct access to asylum. There has to be BOTH.
I'm honoured to have been appointed Minister of State for Immigration & I wanted to talk about how we're tackling illegal migration, particularly via small boats, while providing safe and legal routes for those in need - the firm, but fair system
#CorbyEN
people want to see.
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Did a rigorous poll with 550 primary school children this morning to find out what they think of the government's plan to ship refugees to Rwanda.
Guess what? They think it stinks.
Help
#FillTheSkiesWithHope
this Friday with
@RefugeeTogether
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Call on the Government to stop penalising those of us who dare to fall in love across borders:
I feel physically sick. My right to live with my husband - my *children's* right to live with their *dad* - is contingent on me earning £38,700. This is an increase of £20,000. Overnight.
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Come listen to this panel discussion on refugee self-representation+meaningful participation on Sat 2nd October from 12 Turkey time. There's a great line-up of speakers incl
@sanasyr6
@1PaulPower
@OzRefugeeCounc
@zakirahekmat
@arsa_org
and I have the privilege of moderating
As TMK, we are at
#MARUF21
On Sunday, October 2, between 12:00-13:30, under the moderation of TMK secretariat member
@pheenywhits
, TMK Vice Chairman of the BOD, and
@arsa_org
Chairman Dr.
@zakirahekmat
will be a speaker!
Do not forget to register👇
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I don't have words for how revolting I find the idea that migrants should be paying for public sector pay rises. Fees are *already* eye-wateringly high, amongst the highest in Europe and THREE TIMES the actual cost of govt...
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Nice work
@FreefromTorture
🙌 We all need a bit of hope on this grim day.
🚨BREAKING: This Government's cruel Refugee Ban Bill has just passed.
But if they think they’ve won, they can think again
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This harrowing story is the end point of our hostile, punitive immigration system. Victor’s crime? Being too poor to afford Home Office fees (some of which are going up by 66% nxt wk). Our immigration system produces poverty, homelessness on PURPOSE, then blames people for it.
Excl: Victor, a former TFL worker facing deportation, has been forced to sleep on London's streets this winter as Home Office has been accused of ignoring his visa application. He's unwell, suicidal and unsure of what to do.
@MTC_Solicitors
@StMungos
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This is it, isn’t it? What all of this furore boils down to? People being able to live their lives ❤️
Just got home from my daughter's parents' evening. She has done extremely well in all subjects in her first year in secondary school, which makes me very proud. She would have been denied education under the Taliban if I had been denied the right to protection here in the UK.
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More detail on family visa income requirement:
- phased intro of new threshold starting with £29k
- no separate child element
- ppl already here on this visa type will be subject to OLD threshold at visa renewals
The Home Office has (finally) issued details on who will and won't be affected by the increase in income threshold requirements to bring a foreign partner or spouse to the UK:
- Changes will only apply to new visa applicants.
- Those already in the UK on a family visa will
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Pure unbridled chaos taking two small boys to London on a Saturday afternoon before Christmas BUT 100% worth it for the joyful celebration of strength and resistance
@Praxis_Projects
#HumanRightsDay
celebration
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“Until when will others continue to speak on behalf of refugees?” A powerful challenge to the status quo at the multi-stakeholder session of the
#GlobalSummitOfRefugees
. After the last few days discussion, the answer must resoundingly be NEVER
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The great Helen Flynn from
@JustFairUK
reminding us of the Govt’s *legal obligations* to ensure the conditions needed to live a life of dignity and freedom - & why & how
#NRPF
violates this
#londonchildpovertysummit
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You have got to be kidding me. There’s money for this crap but not for paying teachers or doctors properly? Or for, I dunno, investing in better quality faster decision making in the immigration system?
Excl: The Home Office will pay celebrities and 'influencers' to post messages on TikTok urging migrants not to cross the Channel:
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Such a pleasure to share a panel with these excellent humans! And energising to feel the collective outrage at the damage that long, costly routes to settlement are doing to our communities. Another way is possible:
We’re sharing findings from our research on the impacts of the 10-year route to settlement and the case for review and reform w/
🔸
@Lucyhbmort
🔸
@OMG_Its_Fatou
🔸
@pheenywhits
🔸
@stephenctimm
🔸
@GMIAU
🔸
@Praxis_Projects
#immigration
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Refugee leaders directly addressing the floor during the 1st prep meeting of the
#GCR
Global Refugee Forum. History is being made.
@ameralkayed
@ShazaAlrihawi
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But it was our own court that found your deal unlawful
Following today’s ruling, I’m taking the extraordinary step of introducing emergency legislation to confirm Rwanda is safe.
I will not allow a foreign court, like the European Court of Human Rights, to block these flights.
Here’s the plan in full ⬇️
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"One person will be eaten by the lion, but if we are many, we can chase the lion away" - beautiful words from Olivia at
@Praxis_Projects
AGM tonight, about how we can continue to stand against the
#NationalityandBordersAct
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It’s so so important that as many of us as possible turn up to show the government that we are far better than their vile, hate-filled new bill
This is one of the most important things I have ever asked you to do. On Monday MPs will debate the new Refugee Ban Bill - tell them
#StopTheBill
.
Please, do everything you can to be in Parliament Square at 6pm on Monday. If you can't be there please share the hell out of this.
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Actual footage of me celebrating my husband getting his visa
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Today is a day to re-read this - possibly my favourite ever poem - as the big one goes in for his last day of year 1
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Late to the party here, but this quote frm Tuesday's discussion on the
#AntiRefugeeBill
captures the essence of clause 11 so well: "do the Govt intend to make group 2 refugees... destitute and homeless, or just for them to suffer grinding poverty?" Thank you,
@brianpaddick
!
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Excellent question from
@stephenctimms
and *somewhat* reassuring response about transitional arrangements for families already in the UK unable to meet the new threshold.
But let’s not forget what those “exceptional circumstances” then PM mentioned mean
My question to the Prime Minister today - and the Prime Minister's answer
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I've emailed my MP to let them know we need new safe routes for child refugees.
#SafeRoutesSaveLives
via
@safepassageuk
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I've heard a lot of horrible stories while working on our report on the 10-year route to settlement.
But Nura's story encapsulates both the absurdity and the harm of this immigration policy with painful clarity.
Nothing is worth the price she and her family have paid.
Her son had planned to go to Uni but he had to drop out of education to go to work to support their small family. Both have become depressed, both tried to take their own lives
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Such an important thread, reminding us again that NRPF and it’s hugely harmful consequences for kids are too often left out of this type of review.
A lot of talk today about the English Children's Care Review. The thing that leaps out at me is how little migrant children with No Recourse to Public Funds are considered. There's a brief para in the main report, which is welcome, but no rec's 🧵
#MacAlisterReview
#CareReview
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Amazing work from the brilliant folk
@GMIAU
, lifting the requirement for the children and grandchildren of Commonwealth citizens settled in the UK before 1973 to have lived here continuously 🙌
Some good news today for
#ProBonoWeek
!
The
#Windrush
Legal Initiative, led by GMIAU's Solicitor Nicola, have successfully challenged the Home Office, leading to a change in the Windrush Compensation Scheme rules.👏🌟
Read all about it in our blog:
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Honoured to be supporting the work of the MENA summit of refugees & creation of the 1st ever regional network of refugee-led organisations, together with these amazing people
@sanasyr6
@ameralkayed
@MahfudBechri
@zakirahekmat
@oxfam
@IDiplomat
@ryan__elizabeth
@WomenNowForDev
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Am I allowed to put in my cv the time when the 2-yr old pooped on the stairs whilst the 6 year old was having at it with the the poster paints as an example of staying calm under pressure? I didn’t yell at *anyone*!
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Your cruel policy is making thousands of refugees homeless. Not in my name
@RobertJenrick
"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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Participants at the 1st ever
#globalSummitOfRefugees
at work shaping the vision & mission for a global network of refugees.
#inspired
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Anyone see *anything* in yesterday's Autumn Statement that will benefit people living in poverty affected by the No Recourse to Public Funds condition?
@ilonapin
@TUPLDN
@RAMFELCharity
@andy_jolly
@TorstenBell
@zedhas3
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Kicking off the multistakeholder session of the
#globalSummitOfRefugees
- looking for ways to work together to ensure refugee participation becomes a reality, not an aspiration.
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As
@WeBelong19
point out here, migrants will now need to find an extra £128 per month ON TOP OF paying taxes and national insurance, so they can meet the Government's requirements for maintaining their lawful status
Limited Leave to Remain application costs have surged by 🔺540% since 2014. Young migrants who have lived in the UK most of their lives will pay £3845 every 30 months to maintain their lawful status.❗
#NationalDayOfAction
#ActionOnVisas
#OutOfTheLoop
#WeBelong
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Why do local authorities not provide crisis support to families affected by
#NRPF
? Partly it’s lack of awareness, but at root it’s the
#HostileEnvironment
.
@Project17UK
director Abi Brunswick highlighting the failures of s17 support
#londonchildpovertysummit
@ChildhoodTrust
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Brilliant outcome here - huge congrats to everyone involved.
Great result on Friday in another strategic 'no recourse to public funds' (NRPF) litigation.
The SSHD conceded that barring our destitute client and her 1 year old baby from welfare benefits was unlawful & the NRPF condition was lifted from the Claimant's leave to remain.
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We *know* that sky-high visa fees are pushing some households
🚨 into debt and poverty
🚨 out of status and into the arms of exploitative employers & slum landlords
Research by
@Praxis_Projects
@IPPR
@GMIAU
shows this clearly
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Excellent interview with
@Daghlian1
outlining exactly why today’s announcement that people not born here are going to foot the bill for public sector pay rises is unfair.
'People are once again being demonised and punished.'
CEO of migrant charity Praxis
@Daghlian1
responds to the governmental decision to increase NHS immigration surcharges to fund pay review recommendations.
@TomSwarbrick1
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The brilliant planning committee introducing the MENA Summit of Refugees
#MENA4Refugees
with
@sanasyr6
@ameralkayed
@MahfudBechri
@zakirahekmat
and
@Oxfam
- thinking of absent friends
@WomenNowForDev
, SDF, STARS,
@IDiplomat
@GrnRefugees
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@AndrewTingley
@ladyofstars74
@Patrici89225734
But most people on family visas have to get a new one every 30 months - what happens then? Can't imagine they'll be ongoing leniency, esp given that some people will have to renew their visas 3 times before they can settle permanently.
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Another reminder to anyone who says that achieving meaningful refugee participation at multiple levels is too difficult or not a priority or whatever...
@REVICPAZ_LAC
@NRV
@OzRefugeeCounc
@Cong2018Refugee
are showing that it can be done, is being done and will continue to be done
#UNHCRNGOs
#ParticipationRevolution
panel Diana Ortiz shares the origins of
@REVICPAZ_LAC
a network of Colombian refugees in 8 counties in Latin America working to shape local, regional and int’l policies for the better.
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Happy to be on the way to London to take our petition calling on the Govt to scrap the 10-year route to settlement to
@10DowningStreet
on this gorgeous day ☀️
An incredible 13,000 people have already signed - not too late to join them!
⤵️⤵️⤵️
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In one of the more terrifying experiences of my life I just gave a talk to 550 kids at St John the Baptist primary school in Leicester, about why the govt's Rwanda plan sucks.
Getting ready to
#FillTheSkiesWithHope
on 23/09/22 with
@RefugeeTogether
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Govt estimate of impact of raising the family visa threshold
⚠️Up to 30,000 families will no longer qualify for a family visa, but
⚠️we don't know anything about income of these families anyway
⚠️so Govt doesn't know how this will cut migration anyway
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You know the only way to have “control” of borders? To “break the business model” of the smuggling gangs? Open up MORE SAFE ROUTES
#r4today
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The headline thrust of a 2023 asylum bill will be the THIRD time this Govt is legislating for something it simply *cannot* do.
It’s going to leave a lot of ppl very scared. But that’s pretty much all.
Not sure about you lot but I’m sick of the repeat performance.
The 2023 asylum bill will make those who cross the Channel "inadmissable" for asylum in the UK. (The 2022 Nationality and Borders Act already did that, but this will re-legislate it again).
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Homelessness is a political choice, not a "lifestyle choice". Your hostile policies are making people homeless
@SuellaBraverman
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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Watching history in the making at the world’s first ever
#GlobalSummitofRefugees
, nearly 80 refugees coming together from close to 30 countries.
#nothingaboutuswithoutus
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Spokesperson for IDF on
#r4today
acting like a child, petulantly refusing to engage with the question of what will happen to people who cannot leave Gaza
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Join us at 10am today to hear more about our latest research into the 10-yr route.
There’s still time to sign up ⬇️
🚨LAST CHANCE🚨to sign up for our webinar tomorrow, to hear more about what we
@IPPR
and
@GMIAU
found in our research into the punishing 10-year route.
With expert contributions from
@Lucyhbmort
@OMG_Its_Fatou
@pheenywhits
and
@stephenctimms
Sign up:
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Battling post strike chaos and ice to get to London today for
@Praxis_Projects
Christmas party today because being together with amazing colleagues feels particularly important today.
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Powerful letter from Sudanese young people living in Manchester, asking
@RobertJenrick
why the UK's response to people fleeing conflict in Sudan is so starkly different to that in Ukraine.
Share share share.
Sudanese young people we work with in Manchester have written an open letter to the Immigration Minister
@RobertJenrick
. They want to share how they are feeling seeing what is happening in their home country.
This is what they had to say:
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This ought to be required reading for everyone that voted for this bill on Monday ⬇️
1. A thread on how refugees might react in the real world to the Illegal Migration Bill when it becomes law. I'm interested in suggestions from others and might write it up into a blog post.
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The solutions are simple.
✅scrap the 10-year route
✅cut visa fees to cost
✅give visas for 5 yrs, not 2.5
This would not only dramatically improve the lives of people on the route, it'd also slash the amount of work the Home Office needs to do
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