ILPA briefing to amendments tabled for House of Lords Committee Stage of the Immigration Bill 3 February 2015: Part Five: dealing with amendments concerned with matters other than support, in particular with refugee family reunion, 1 February 2016
Updated with additional resources:
The Committee on the 03 February 2016 covered the following matters from Part 5 of the Bill
- Support
- Transfer of responsibility for relevant children
The debate on the 09 February 2016 covered the following matters from Part 5 of the Bill
- Transfer of responsibility for relevant children
Amendments that brought new matters were:
- Asylum support move on period
- Review of the rules relating to refugees reuniting with family members
- Families of British citizens and other persons with leave to remain
- Conditions for grant of asylum: cases of genocide
- Family visas
- Best interests of the child
- Unaccompanied refugee children
- Obligation to provide information on passports
- Review of language requirements for public sector workers
- Tier 1 (Investor) visa
Link to the debates are added below, and amendments addressed are summarised in the Marshalled Lists below.
- Fourth Marshalled List of Amendments to be moved in Committee (01.02.16)
- Committee 4th sitting: House of Lords (03.02.16)
- Fifth Marshalled List of Amendments to be moved in Committee (05.02.16)
- Committee 5th sitting: House of Lords (09.02.16)
- Document Date
- 2016-02-01
- Issue Number
- 16.02.31782