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Campaigners say the former prince must face criminal probe
THE government’s family visa rules are so harsh that they “effectively ban” elderly parents in need of care from joining their loved ones in Britain, peers have found.
In a report published today, the House of Lords justice and home affairs committee says that “unjustified and needlessly restrictive” migration rules are forcing families to live apart.
It is “virtually impossible” for British citizens to bring an elderly parent in need of care to this country, the report says, with no-one being allowed to come to Britain under the adult dependent relative visa for the last two years.
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
Unions and campaigners condemn Home Secretary after government confirms scrapping of care worker visas
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum