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ILPA is a professional association and registered charity, founded in 1984 by leading practitioners in the field.

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ILPA Blog | Key Documents

Translating Legal Research into Practice: The benefits of practitioner-academic collaboration

BY DR MAJA GRUNDLER Practitioners of immigration and asylum law share much in common with legal academics studying the field – not least the aim of migrants achieving access to […]
Briefing | Children

CSEL Briefing: Key factors when interviewing unaccompanied children seeking asylum

Dr Zoe Given-Wilson and Professor Amina Memon at the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law (CSEL), Royal Holloway, University of London, have produced a briefing for ILPA on […]
ILPA Blog | Digitalisation

The Digital Status Crisis: Why the UK’s eVisa system is failing the people who rely on it

BY KAELYNN NARITA Technology is by no means perfect: there are times when websites fail to load, the internet won’t connect, or computers crash. Despite this reality, and a long […]
Key document | Refugee

Joint Statement on Impact of Immigration Plans on Survivors of Modern Slavery (27 November 2025)

ILPA is among the signatories to a joint statement and letter, co-ordinated by After Exploitation, to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood MP, regarding the harms the proposed changes to immigration and […]
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Upcoming events and training

Wednesday 04 February

ILPA Family and Personal Migration Working Group Meeting
Wednesday 11 February

ILPA North West Working Group Meeting
Thursday 12 February

Sole and Shared Parental Responsibility: rules and practice
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