General information - August 2021 Deportation and Voluntary Departure From the UK Asylum Backlog Passes 70,000 Shortage Occupation List Review in 2022 is too late Immigration Statistics - Year Ending June 2021 Home Office Urged to Concede Afghan Tribunal Appeals Extensive Update: Criminal Convictions and Immigration Applications Confirmed: Dependency for Extended Family Members Must be Unbroken New Home Office Policy: Medical Evidence in Asylum Claims Offshore Processing Doesn’t Stop the Boats, Australian Experts Warn Switching Immigration Category While Present in the UK Home Office Did Not Carry Out Safety Checks on Hotel Where Afghan Boy Died Afghan Asylum Seekers Who Enter UK Without Permission Would be Criminalised Under Nationality and Borders Bill Afghan Resettlement Scheme - Immediate Status Now for Those Afghans Already Here UK Proposal for Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers, Ineffective, Costly and Cruel Court of Appeal Lays Down Hyper-Strict Approach to EU Asylum Claims AM (Zimbabwe) Test Now Applies to Destitution Too Criminal Convictions and Immigration Applications Cost Per Deportee Surges 200% Under Home Office’s ‘Incompetent’ Flight Removal Policy UK Deportation Flight to Jamaica Leaves With Just Seven People on Board Passports Can be Issued to British Children Abroad Without Abusive Father’s Consent Dependent Children to be Treated as Having Made Their Own Asylum Claim Upper Tribunal Forced to U-Turn on “New Matters” Appeal Loophole Support Don’t Deport - Foreign Nationl Rough Sleepers Home Office Records 70 Racist Incidents by Far Right at Asylum Accommodation Home Secretary Priti Patel Coughs up £35,000 Damages Home Office Failed To Put in Place System to Protect Detainees With HIV No-Notice Citizenship Deprivation Ruled Unlawful Supreme Court Upholds Home Office Age Assessment Policy Home Office set Up Fake Website to Deter Asylum Seekers Home Office Failed to Put in Place System to Protect Detainees With HIV Continuing Conflicts That Create Refugees - August 2021 Deteriorated Situations: Ethiopia, South Africa, Zambia, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Syria, Tunisia Conflict Risk Alerts: Ethiopia, Zambia, Armenia, Azerbaijan Ethiopia’s spreading Tigray war is spiraling into a dangerous new phase, which will likely lead to more deadly violence and far greater instability countrywide. Fighting along the state border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the deadliest since the Autumn 2020 war, could escalate further. More violence could surge in Zambia as tensions between ruling party and opposition supporters are running high ahead of the August general elections. Resolution Opportunities: None Source: International Crisis Group