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Jasmine and Barry discuss the Home Office's new pilot for children's asylum claims and the latest immigration statistics, providing crucial advice for clients on various immigration issues.

In the February round up, Jasmine and Barry discuss the Home Office's new pilot for children's asylum claims and dig into the latest immigration statistics. They cover some crucial advice for clients, including what to do if you're refused entry at the UK border, whether you can apply for settlement early to avoid the new ‘earned settlement’ proposals and how to fight a bank account closure on immigration grounds. There is also new Home Office guidance on EU Settlement Scheme derivative rights, trouble for dual nationals without British passports and yet more lawyers being caught out by fake AI-generated case law. Asylum and protection (02:08) Home Office introduces pilot to speed up children’s asylum claims Massive reduction in the backlog but questions over quality of decision making in latest trafficking statistics Latest statistics: overall decline in visa grants and concerns as Syrian asylum success rate plummets No breach of public sector equality duty by Home Office when housing LGBTQ+ asylum seekers Visitors (12:02) What to do if you are stopped and refused entry at the UK border Settlement (13:46) Can I apply for indefinite leave to remain early? A fairer pathway? How…

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