Briefings

Briefings

See below for a list of our briefings. You'll find the most recent ones at the top. Contact [email protected] for more information.

2024

• Migrant Voice’s statment in response to UK government freezing asylum applications from Syria
• Open letter to the Home Secretary calling for regularisation - by Migrant Voice together with more than 80 other organisations and with more than 145 signatories in total.
• Joint briefing on the International Health Surcharge by Migrant Voice, in partnership with Reunite Families UK,Ramfel, JCWI and Praxis and signed by 23 other organisations.

2023

• Amnesty International UK and Migrant Voice "Modern Slavery" briefing for House of Commons Committee on Government Bill 262
• Migrant Voice signs joint statement calling out the government's plan to fund a public sector pay rise through higher NHS and visa fees for migrants.

2022

• Migrant Voice signs letter to Keir Starmer alongside 50+ organisations, calling for routes to residency to be capped at 5 year with visa fees set at admin cost.

• Joint response on migrant workers’ risks of exploitation - for MAC’s annual report (September 2022)

• Migrant Voice signs letter to Home Office with five other organisations calling for safeguarding of Ukrainian Seasonal Workers (March 2022)

• Migrant Voice signs joint response to the UK government's plans to reform the Human Rights Act, alongside Human Rights Consortium Scotland and 45 other organisations (March 2022)

• Joint briefing with Safe Passage and 45 other organisations calling for the House of Lords to vote for an amendment to the Nationality and Borders Bill which would give safe passage to unaccompanied children currently in Europe seeking asylum who have family in the UK (March 2022)

• Migrant Voice and Amnesty UK's Lord's Committee Stage (part 3: Immigration Control: Clauses 39-47) Joint Briefing for the Nationality and Borders Bill (February 2022)

• Migrant Voice and Amnesty UK's Lord's Committee Stage (part 2: Asylum: Clauses 17-38 ) Joint Briefing for the Nationality and Borders Bill (February 2022)

• Migrant Voice and Amnesty UK's Lord's Committee Stage (part 2: Asylum: Clauses 11-16 ) Joint Briefing for the Nationality and Borders Bill (January 2022)

• As part of a coalition of more than 100 organisations and individuals, Migrant Voice has sent an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for the removal of Clause 9 from the Nationality and Borders Bill (27 January, 2022)

2021

• Migrant Voice and Amnesty UK's Lords' Second Reading Joint Briefing for Nationality and Borders Bill (December 2021)

• Migrant Voice has sent an open letter to the Home Secretary calling for the government to establish the resettlement scheme it pledged to provide protection for 20,000 Afghan citizens (December 2021)

• Migrant Voice has submitted to a call for evidence by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration on the Home Office’s processing of applications for indefinite leave to remain in the UK as a partner of a person or parent of a child already settled in the UK (November 2021)
• MV and AIUK Joint Submission to Public Bill Committee on the Nationality and Borders Bill Parts 2 to 5: Asylum and Immigration (August 2021) 
• Joint briefing with Amnesty International addressed to MPs ahead of the second reading of the Nationality and Borders Bill (July)
• Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights: The Government’s Independent Human Rights Act Review (March)
• Submission to the Home Affairs Committee: Home Office preparedness for Covid-19 (Coronavirus) (February)

2020

• Briefing on the impact of Covid-19 on international students (October)
• Submission to the Scottish Parliament's Equalities and Human Rights Commission Inquiry on the impact of Covid-19 (October)
• Migrant Voice briefing on impact of Covid-19 on BAME & migrant communities in the West Midlands (July)
• Submission to the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and BAME people (July)
• Joint briefing with Amnesty UK on the Immigration Bill for House of Lords Second Reading (July)
• My Future Back briefing (June)
• Briefing on the impact of the NHS surcharge & visa fees on migrants in the UK (May)
• Joint submission with Amnesty UK to the Joint Committee of Human Rights inquiry: The Government response to Covid-19: human rights implications (April)
• A (small) step in the right direction: MV response to new Home Office guidance on TOEIC cases (March)
• Briefing on EU Settlement Scheme survey (January)

2019

• Public Accounts Committee report should shame Government (September)
• Supplementary written evidence submitted to Public Accounts Committee inquiry into English language tests for overseas students (August)
• Response to remarks made by Home Secretary Sajid Javid at Home Affairs Select Committee, 22 July (July)
• National Audit Office report: An exposure of Home Office failure (May)
• Briefing on UK immigration fees (April)

​2016

• Issues facing Syrian asylum seekers in the UK (November)