Welcome to the September 2022 episode of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month Colin is joined again by immigration lawyer about town, as she put it, Sonia Lenegan. She is in danger of becoming a co-presenter if she carries on like th

Colin and Sonia have a short chat about what's going on with immigration and asylum policy right now. With Truss and No 10 saying one thing and Braverman and the Home Office saying something very different, what should we make of it all? Are we going to h

Welcome to episode 104 of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month Colin is joined by "immigration lawyer about town", as she puts it, Sonia Lenegan. Taking pity on Colin after his solo effort last month, Sonia is the legal and policy dire

Welcome to episode 103 of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month the first in something like five years with no CJ McKinney Im starting with some material on asylum and trafficking then quickly going over a bit of immigration and na

The immigration system has been through a lot since I started covering it for Free Movement five years ago. In September 2017, the UK was still in the two-year countdown to leaving the European Union, and there were even doubts about whether it would happ

Welcome to episode 102 of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month we start with elements of the Borders Act 2022 coming into force before moving on to Appendix Private Life and Appendix FM. We then review the latest case law on criminal d

Comprehensive Sickness Insurance continues to hang over the heads of many EU citizens who, over the years, were told that they needed private health coverage for their residence in the UK to be lawful. The UK governments insistence on this was always le

Welcome to episode 101 of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month we start with some great news on fees, then some updates on the new Borders Act before turning to Rwanda and asylum more broadly. We have a quick check-in on business immi

In the States, theyre known as Dreamers. Children and young people who grow up perfectly integrated, only to find out that through no fault of their own theyre actually unauthorised migrants. Here in the UK, children who are British in every sens

Welcome to episode 100 of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month we’ve got some pretty major asylum stuff to go over plus quite a few different topics, including compensation for unlawful removal, the unending saga of the English