Today, we’re part of a coalition of campaign groups – Greater Manchester Patients Not Passports – who have delivered an open letter calling for an end to migrant charging in the NHS. The letter is addressed to local NHS Trusts, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and Andy Burnham,…
25 child and migrant rights organisations have written to key people involved in the safeguarding of children on their own in the UK seeking asylum. Collectively we are extremely concerned that without urgent action, delays in the asylum process are leaving children at significant risk of dying by suicide, self-harm and exploitation. This has been reported…
Do you want to build relationships with people who have personal experience of immigration and asylum support people to organise and campaign about immigration injustices work within a committed team who will support you all the way You could be our new Community Organiser! Job Title Community Organiser Reports to…
We’re recruiting an Operations Director! This is an exciting opportunity to increase GMIAU’s management capacity so that we can maximise our impact in support of people living in north west England who are affected by the immigration system. The post-holder will be responsible for strengthening our internal processes, developing income…
We’re hiring an Immigration Solicitor or Senior Caseworker to strengthen our team. This post will be based in Manchester (with some remote working) providing legal immigration advice and representation to people across North West England. This person will conduct immigration and asylum casework within a team of advisers and representatives.…
The government’s new Nationality and Borders Bill will criminalise the RNLI and Afghan women fleeing the Taliban. We need to throw it out. Here’s how. It is impossible to forget the scenes at Kabul airport this summer. Desperate husbands, wives, parents, daughters, sons, trying to save loved ones and flee…
Overnight on 1 July 2021, tens of thousands of people lost their right to be in the UK lawfully. Today we’ve published our new report exploring what’s happened in the weeks since the 30th June EU Settlement Scheme deadline and who in the North West has been left behind. The…
Who we are GMIAU are proud to be joining the campaign Greater Manchester Patients Not Passports (GMPNP) to end the Hostile Environment within the NHS. We have formed a coalition with local organisations Medact Manchester and Greater Manchester Keep Our NHS Public (GMKONP) to fight for equal access to healthcare, which has even more relevance during the current…
Today we’re publishing our 2021 Report: Covid-19 and the Hostile Environment in the North West of England. In the 12 months from March 2020, Covid-19 collided with the Government’s Hostile Environment policies to leave people across the North West facing poverty, domestic abuse, anxiety and immigration uncertainty. You can download…
A Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report published today reveals the appalling treatment of a member of the Windrush generation who was represented by GMIAU. Rupert Everett came to the UK aged 19, in the early 1960s. He lived and worked as an HGV driver for many years, had children…
