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We are the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association. A charity and membership org seeking to empower members to provide the best possible advice and support for migrants, and collaboratively working to improve law, policy and practice. Hosts of the #SLF
In a statement published today, the Jesuit Refugee Service UK (JRS UK), the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), stateless communities, and other leading experts have called for the government to rethink its proposals on earned settlement. www.jrsuk.net/news/earned-...
JRS UK joins with other experts to highlight the destructive impact of government’s ‘earned settlement’ proposals on statelessness | JRS UK
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📢 In May 2025, ILPA’s Legal Director attended a roundtable at @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the justice system, for immigration and asylum, and thus for society. Today, the Inquiry has published its report 👉 covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/ju...
INQ000656301 - Justice system Roundtable Summary Report UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives
The Justice system roundtable address the impact on those in prisons and detention centres, and those affected by court closures and delays.
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⚡ Our thanks to @majagrundler.bsky.social for writing our first monthly blog post of 2026 on the benefits of practitioner-academic collaboration. Read her insights 👇 ilpa.org.uk/translating-...
📢 We're hiring! We're looking for an experienced Training Manager to join our small team and run our busy training programme. More details 👇 ilpa.org.uk/training-man... ⏰ Applications close Saturday 3 January 2026 ⏰
⚡In our latest blog post, Kaelynn Narita, Research and Policy Manager @the3million.bsky.social, sets out the widespread issues besetting #eVisa holders and calls for urgent action to be taken 🚨 Read more 👇 ilpa.org.uk/the-digital-...
⚡We're among almost 600 individuals and organisations working in UK migration and asylum law to have signed a Statement of Consensus following the Government's recent announcements about changes to UK asylum policy. Read our collective concerns 👇👇 ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
🚨LAST CALL for applications for ILPA's Legal Project Officer ⏰Apply by midnight tonight⏰ More details 👇 ilpa.org.uk/legal-projec...
All articles from our JIANL Special Issue are now available open access as author manuscript versions here: ilpa.org.uk/journal-of-i... Thanks very much to @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social for allowing us to bring the Special Issue to a wider audience!
Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law: Special Issue 2025 - ILPA
The Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, ILPA’s official journal, published a special issue in 2025. The special issue includes the following articles: . Manuscript versions of each of ...
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The new Special Issue of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law which I co-edited with Violeta Moreno-Lax and @nikkibusu.bsky.social is out! The aim of this SI is to begin to investigate how we can translate legal academic work on immigration and asylum into practical legal arguments
📢 We're recruiting! We're looking for a Legal Project Officer to join our team. ⏰Apply by Monday 24 November 2025. More details 👇 ilpa.org.uk/legal-projec... 🙏 Please share widely 🙏
⚡Powerful report from @ramfel.bsky.social published this week showing the reality of life in the UK's asylum hotels. Read more 👇👇
🚨🚨🚨 Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today. These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof. Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life. More updates throughout the day so watch this space. www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Read our joint briefing on her amendment to the latest immigration bill here: labourexploitation.org/app/uploads/... @lawrsuk.bsky.social, @workrights.bsky.social, @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social, @focusonlabour.bsky.social #LEAG #SecureReporting
⚡Tomorrow is #AntiSlaveryDay. Writing on the ILPA Blog, Avril Sharp of @kalayaan.org.uk renews calls for long overdue changes to fix the broken #OverseasDomesticWorker visa, so domestic workers can leave abusive employment, without risking further harm. Read more 👇 ilpa.org.uk/delays-expec...
⚡To mark #WorldMentalHealthDay Elizabeth Rimmer, Chief Executive of LawCare, reflects on the findings of the #LifeInTheLaw 2025 survey and sets out steps organisations can take to improve workplace #wellbeing. Read her insights 👇 ilpa.org.uk/life-in-the-... #ILPAblog
The ECHR and United Kingdom international relations #ECHR_withdrawal #humanrights #UKimmigration tinyurl.com/4h4zh9jm
The ECHR and United Kingdom international relations
The suggestion that the United Kingdom might withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights for immigration purposes is misconceived. To contend that ECHR withdrawal is a simple act without …
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⚡ILPA is profoundly saddened by the deaths of four people, including two children, in the Channel over the past 24 hours. These deaths are not inevitable. 🧵1/4
📢 We're recruiting!! We're looking for a part-time Membership Engagement Manager to join our team. ⏰ Apply by Sunday 7 September. More details 👇👇 ilpa.org.uk/membership-e... 🙏 Please share widely 🙏
⚡We are one of over 200 orgs to have signed refugeestogether.bsky.social's open letter to party leaders calling for them to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past. Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate.
⚡We’re one of the 53 organisations who've joined @ramfel.bsky.social to sign their letter urging Yvette Cooper to take urgent action to allow family reunion for those affected by the Afghan data breach which put their families at risk from the Taliban. Read more 👇👇
53 organisations have joined RAMFEL to demand Yvette Cooper extend family reunion rights to those resettled under Afghan schemes. This is a vital step to fix the harm caused by the data breach, which exposed families to renewed risk from the Taliban. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
🔊We have issued a public statement to mark the anniversary of the start of the summer 2024 riots. Read it in full 👇 ilpa.org.uk/ilpa-stateme...
ILPA Statement on the Anniversary of the Summer 2024 Riots - ILPA
Following the tragic events in Southport, last summer saw numerous outbreaks of far-right violence, aggression and intimidation across the UK. The riots did not occur in isolation, but were fuelled […...
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❓Did you know that hundreds of thousands of people are forced to wait over 10 years for the right to permanently settle in the place they already call home? And it’s about to get worse. 🧵
🔽Garden Court's Adrian Berry KC @berryadrianc.bsky.social produces briefing on the Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Bill for ILPA @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social
The Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Bill - My briefing for the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) tinyurl.com/55bzwdbb
I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
📣 Are you a UK-based asylum/immigration practitioner interested in gender-based claims for asylum? Join our joint training with Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) on 'How to Effectively Prepare Gender-based Violence Asylum Claims' 📅 Thurs 3 July. 3-5 pm. Tickets 👉 www.ticketsource.co.uk/wirl/t-pqjyamg
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We're published on the @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social today, exploring the importance of - and barriers to - timely identification of communication differences and difficulties in #immigration matters: http://bit.ly/3IhbJc8 #intermediary
🚨Did you know the government has made it nearly impossible for many refugees to become British citizens? It's based on how they arrived, not who they are as people. This affects our neighbours, colleagues, friends. 📢Your MP needs to hear from you: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
⚡ In advance of Committee Stage of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill in @houseoflords.parliament.uk, we have issued a Joint Briefing with @refugeestogether.bsky.social on the “Good character requirement for citizenship” Amendment 👇 ilpa.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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⚡ In May, our legal director @zoebantleman.bsky.social gave evidence to the JCHR on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill. We welcome the Committee's subsequent report which sets out concerns raised & makes recommendations for improvement 👇 committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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@ilpaimmigration.bsky.social looking forward to speaking at our event on the immigration White Paper tonight, alongside my brilliant colleagues!
We are delighted to be hosting a SOLD OUT event this week: 'The Immigration White Paper in Perspective: Economic Migration, Border Control, and Asylum Policy in the Year Ahead' 🔽 tinyurl.com/5y2b2uwc
📣 Tomorrow, 17/06, our team of walkers 🚶♀️🚶🚶♀️ is joining with 1000s of others in central London to take on 10K for justice ⚖️ in @londonlegal.bsky.social's annual #LondonLegalWalk ☀️ 🙏 Please help us smash our fundraising target 👇👇 londonlegalsupporttrust.enthuse.com/pf/immigrati... #AccessToJustice