Immigration roundup: August 2025

3 septembre 2025 · 41 min

Notes de l’épisode

Let's face it, August was a rough one and hopefully most of you managed to escape it for a summer holiday at some point, in which case you definitely need Sonia and Barry to help catch you up! The UK announced its new arrangements to return people arriving across the Channel to France, hotels used as asylum accommodation hit the headlines as far right protests hit the streets, and the latest immigration and asylum statistics were out - with some notable omissions. In addition to this, Barry covers an unsuccessful attempt by the Daily Mail to publish the personal details of a woman who lacks mental capacity as well as a new registration process for Irish citizens to become British.

Barry also covers the very sad case of a woman who was unsuccessful in her challenge to a refusal of indefinite leave to remain. Sonia highlights an unreported but useful case on public order disqualifications in trafficking claims, an essential read for anyone working on those cases. She also looks at an important change to practice in the First-tier Tribunal which has been endorsed by the Upper Tribunal. All this and more in our August roundup!

The 41 minute podcast follows the running order below:

Statistics (00:45)

Latest statistics raise questions around sustainability of Home Office asylum decision making

Briefing: the sorry state of the UK asylum system

Asylum (07:00)

Briefing: how to come to the UK from France under the UK/European Applicant Transfer Scheme

Expression of interest form for France to UK transfers goes live

What do we know about the UK-France agreement on asylum returns?

Trading in human lives: unpacking the UK/European transfer scheme

Daily Mail publisher loses attempt to lift anonymity order

Home Office wrongly issued biometric residence permit to person refused asylum

Challenge to public order disqualification dismissed by Upper Tribunal