Category: ILPA documents

Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) meeting The ILPA Secretariat and ILPA members attended a session with the Home Office on the new Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) route. An operational […]

Equalities subgroup Our Legal and Parliamentary Officer attended the NASF Equalities subgroup. UKVI’s vulnerability strategy, MOD sites and equality issues were on the agenda. Inadequate access to legal advice, screening […]

COVID In 2021, we raised concerns around the switching concession, namely that applications should not be required to be urgent. This has now been implemented (except for family and personal […]

Third party contractors In December 2020 we circulated a survey concerning third party issues and raised members’ responses to it at a meeting with UKVI on 17 December. The lack of free […]

The Simplification of the Rules Taskforce (SORT) At the latest SORT meeting we raised comments on the draft overseas domestic worker and graduate routes. Our next step is to identify […]

Consultation responses The Court of Appeal response was submitted on 11 January 2021.

Letter on transnational marriage abandonment We have written to the Home Office on the issue of transnational marriage abandonment, asking that a route of re-entry for stranded spouses is created […]

NASF Decision making subgroup Asylum interviewing was on the agenda and ILPA continued to push for more information and a separate meeting on the proposals to outsource asylum interviews.

Access to legal advice in the asylum accommodation estate ILPA’s Legal Director requested a meeting to discuss how access to legal advice is being facilitated across the asylum accommodation estate, […]