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Sonia and Barry discuss significant immigration updates from July 2025, including changes to the skilled worker route and Afghan resettlement.

July was actually a fairly busy month! Join Sonia and Barry as they run you through what happened, including the changes to the skilled worker route, everything that happened on Afghan resettlement, recent changes to the EU Settlement Scheme and the latest instalment in a far too long running Palestinian case. An article from BID flagging up a really important change being proposed to cautions got a huge number of views and has hopefully helped to raise awareness. Other cases included one involving a questionable practice by the Home Office relating to people in prison, a successful challenge to a sponsor licence revocation. Barry and Sonia also discussed the wisdom of civil penalty appeals, the latest on climate change litigation and an important update for anyone filing judicial reviews in the Administrative Court. That's not even all of it!The 43 minute long podcast follows the running order below: Statement of changes (00:50) Afghan scheme closed immediately and major changes to skilled worker route – statement of changes: HC 997 Asylum (02:10) Secret Afghan resettlement scheme set up after government data breach Successful challenge to transparency of Triples review of…

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