Are you affected by the UK's family division rules?

Do you have children?

Please make your voice heard! Contribute to the Children's Commissioner's survey.
The Office of the Children's Commissioners is following up on the concerns and issues by all of the campaigning over the last couple of years.

The OCC is conducting research on the impact of the rules on children with a view to, in the Children's Commissioner for England's words, 'achieve a just settlement for families who are, or who will be, divided by the implementation of these rules.'

If you're affected by family migration rules, have children, and have a few moments, please complete the survey :
http://www.scribd.com/doc/235449747/Children-s-Commissioner-Questionnaire
or here :
http://family.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2014/office-childrens-commissioner-seeks-evidence-those-affected-family-migration-rules
or here :
http://www.jcwi.org.uk/blog/2014/08/01/childrens-commissioner-investigates-family-migration-rules

Blog post :
http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/childrens-commissioner-questionnaire.html

Full instructions on where to send the survey to - as well as a letter from the Children's Commissioner for England herself, and interesting reading on the background to this and the work of the OCC - are in the links above.

* The Children's Commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the voice of the child in government. They have spoken out on the issue before, and wish to follow this up further. Please help them achieve this.

The Children's Commissioners' briefing on the APPG on Migration 'Report of the Inquiry into the New Family Migration Rules' is both excellent and devastating. Read it here :

http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/content/publications/content_671

*** IMPORTANT - The Children's Commissioner survey is now open until 15th September


If you have children, and are affected by the UK's immigration rules, please please please complete the survey :

http://www.scribd.com/doc/235449747/Children-s-Commissioner-Questionnaire

The Office of the Children's Commissioner is conducting research on the impact of the rules on children with a view to, in the Children's Commissioner for England's words, 'achieve a just settlement for families who are, or who will be, divided by the implementation of these rules.'

Full instructions on where to send the survey to, as well as a letter from the Children's Commissioner for England herself, are in the link above.

* The Children's Commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the voice of the child in government. They have spoken out on the issue before, and wish to follow this up further. Please help them achieve this.

Children's Commissioners' briefing on the APPG on Migration 'Report of the Inquiry into the New Family Migration Rules' : http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/content/publications/content_671 

Previous post : http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/childrens-commissioner-questionnaire.html

*** Important repost *** 

Have your say : Reminder to those affected by family migration rules with children

http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/childrens-commissioner-questionnaire.html

As previously mentioned, the Office of the Children's Commissioners is following up on the concerns and issues by all of the campaigning over the last couple of years.

The OCC is conducting research on the impact of the rules on children with a view to, in the Children's Commissioner for England's words, 'achieve a just settlement for families who are, or who will be, divided by the implementation of these rules.'

If you're affected by family migration rules, have children, and have a few moments, please complete the survey here :
http://www.scribd.com/doc/235449747/Children-s-Commissioner-Questionnaire

Full instructions on where to send the survey to, as well as a letter from the Children's Commissioner for England herself, are in the link above.

* The Children's Commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the voice of the child in government. They have spoken out on the issue before, and wish to follow this up further. Please help them achieve this.

Children's Commissioners' briefing on the APPG on Migration 'Report of the Inquiry into the New Family Migration Rules' : http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/content/publications/content_671

Free movement poll results

We conducted a 1-minute poll, asking those who are or will be exercising free movement rights, which country this would be in and at what stage of the process they are, where it is for Surinder Singh.

Ireland is unsurprisingly the most popular with Malta beating countries like France and Italy, into joint second place with Spain.

We will be in touch soon to create in-country groups and mentors with those who have indicated an interest.

More on the results here. 

Children's Commissioner Questionnaire - have your say!

Source : Children's Commissioner

As previously mentioned, the Office of the Children's Commissioners is following up on the concerns and issues by all of the campaigning over the last couple of years.

The OCC is conducting research on the impact of the rules on children with a view to, in the Children's Commissioner for England's words, 'achieve a just settlement for families who are, or who will be, divided by the implementation of these rules.'

If you're affected by family migration rules, have children, and have a few moments, please complete the survey here :
http://www.scribd.com/doc/235449747/Children-s-Commissioner-Questionnaire

Full instructions on where to send the survey to, as well as a letter from the Children's Commissioner for England herself, are in the link above.

* The Children's Commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the voice of the child in government. They have spoken out on the issue before, and wish to follow this up further. Please help them achieve this.

Children's Commissioners' briefing on the APPG on Migration 'Report of the Inquiry into the New Family Migration Rules' : http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/content/publications/content_671

UPDATES

Children's Commissioner

We mentioned earlier that we are working with the Office of the Children's Commissioner in England in their undertaking research to explore the impact of UK's family immigration rules on children and young people.  They have put together a questionnaire - if you have children especially please take 15 minutes or so and return by 1 September 2014. Thank you in advance.
Note guidance provided at the end for instructions on how to return the questionnaire and other documentation.

MM case 

Many have been asking for updates on the MM case. No news yet other than the good side's lawyers are still waiting for legal aid approval, following which they are going to file their permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.  Legal Aid Authority like most government departments is probably over-worked and under-resourced, hence the delay - so a little more patience needed.  Will let you know as soon as we hear anything more.

Keep an eye out for how things progress with HO's treatment of applications on hold which they indicated they would begin processing this week - will applicants will be able to appeal or forced to go down an administrative review instead?  Around the corner is the 30 months since the rules came into force, so let's brace ourselves for HO in their typical fashion messing up the first probationary period applications too. 

Surinder Singh

Many members have been trawling through EU regulations, and interpreting the regulations the best they can - however now there is some legal comfort available with immigration barrister and EU specialist Colin Yeo having written an e-book on Surinder Singh, released this week.  It provides a legal oversight of free movement rights and EU regulations, especially as they apply to using the Surinder Singh route (unsurprising given the title of the e-book) and an overview of Home Office behaviour.  Colin is open to feedback so do contact him if you have any. BritCits does not financially benefit from sales of this book so 'promotion' of it is purely because we think you may find it useful. 

Available in pdf format here. 

Until next time chickies.

Please complete our Surinder Singh survey!

Author : BritCits surveys

If you are currently exercising, or expect to exercise, free movement rights in Europe, please complete our survey! This will help us understand how best to help those going through free movement.

It won't take a minute! :

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8XPPCLN

Thanks!

More posts on Surinder Singh and free movement :
http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/surinder%20singh

Family unity, the European way :
http://www.jcwi.org.uk/comment/1570

Don't forget our survey

BritCits members' and supporters' survey :
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TS3WLXQ

It's running for a few more days before we start collating the results - please complete if you haven't already!

Previously :
http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/britcits-members-and-supporters-survey.html

BritCits members' and supporters' survey

As we grow the campaign, it's vital that we get feedback from those affected by the UK's family immigration rules, their families, their friends, and from people who support the campaign because they believe in human rights.

We're running this survey to help us hone the campaign, as we plan for the future and work with other campaigners and those in public life to get justice for everyone.

Please take a couple of minutes to complete our survey :

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TS3WLXQ

Thankyou !

New survey: For immigration practitioners dealing with Adult Dependent Relatives 

BritCits and JCWI are collecting data to assess the impact of the Adult Dependent Relatives ("ADR") rules in force from 9 July 2012. With the government systematically attacking the judicial process, the legal profession and NGO's must rally together. Your help is therefore much appreciated in the research on ADR rules which parliamentarians and lawyers have labelled 'a ban masquerading as a rule'.

Survey results are anonymised and no answer will be attributable to you without your prior consent.

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