Recently, we were thrilled to be awarded ‘Best New Pro Bono Activity’ at the LawWorks awards 2025 and ‘Frontline Agency of the Year’ at the Greater Manchester Pro Bono Awards 2025 for our eVisa pro bono project. We were also ‘Highly Commended’ in LawWorks’ Most Effective Pro Bono Partnership category…
On the 2nd October, we as GMIAU staff were horrified and heartbroken to hear news of the deadly attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, the area where we have been based for 23 years. We know the effects of this antisemitic attack were felt not only in Manchester but across…
A message to people living in asylum hotels in Greater Manchester We are voluntary and community organisations based in Greater Manchester. We are writing to say that you are WELCOME here in our communities. We understand that you may not have chosen to come to Greater Manchester, but we hope…
Guide for young people In 2020, young people in the All4One youth group, supported by GMIAU, worked together to create a Guide to Age Assessments. This guide was written by young people, for young people, based on their lived experience of having their ages assessed. Through supporting each other as…
This week a new report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) found appalling failings in the Home Office’s age assessment process. At the same time, the Home Office announced they would attempt to start using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assess children’s ages. At GMIAU we recently…
Dear Yvette Cooper, We are a group of young people from the All4One group. We all arrived as unaccompanied children to seek safety in the UK. We were all sent to adult asylum accommodation after having our ages disbelieved by the Home Office. We want to talk to you about…
Over recent years, thousands of children have been wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office. These children are in the UK on their own seeking asylum. Following decisions made by UK border officials that they are “significantly over 18” they have been sent alone to adult asylum accommodation, usually…
A new report from JUSTICE reveals that Windrush survivors are receiving far less compensation than they are entitled to under the Windrush Compensation Scheme. The key reason? A lack of access to free legal advice. The scheme was created to compensate for the government’s failure to recognise the lawful residence…
“They don’t help, they don’t listen, they’ve got their own answers. They don’t come to understand you” Summary At GMIAU, we support children who have had their ages assessed by the Home Office’s National Age Assessment Board (NAAB). Their experiences have rarely been heard. We spoke to children and found…
This paper has a focus on ‘legal migration’ which covers people who come to the UK to work, study, and for some other reasons. This paper should not be confused with the ‘Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill’ that is currently passing through Parliament, which focuses on people to who…