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Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! Last week the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner published a report warning that modern slavery in the UK is at record levels and is only expected to get worse. 23,411 potential victims were referred to the National Referral Mechanism in 2025, a 22% increase compared with 2024. The report points to insecure working conditions, [...

The UK has two sponsored work routes for religious workers: the T2 minister of religion visa for those with a key leading role in their faith-based organisation or religious order in the UK, and the temporary religious worker visa for those who support the activities of religious institutions in the UK by working in a religious order or filling […]

The Immigration Advice Authority has launched a new awareness campaign to protect people against dishonest and unregulated immigration advisers. It is a criminal offence under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to provide immigration advice or services to someone without being properly authorised. Only qualified and regulated solicitors, barristers (or advocates in Scotland), C...

In the April round-up, Jasmine is joined by Mala Savjani, an associate solicitor at Wilsons. They cover April’s most significant developments, which includes a Court of Appeal decision on what past ill-treatment actually has to look like to amount to persecution, a landmark European Court of Human Rights ruling on returns to Afghanistan, and a […]

The Upper Tribunal handed down judgment in R (FH and Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (JR-2025-LON-000118 & Ors), a case challenging the certification of asylum claims as inadmissible on the basis that Bulgaria was a safe third country. I have previously written about this case – believed to be the first […]