We’re hiring an Team Assistant. This post will be based in our Manchester office, providing administrative support to our team. If you have direct experience of immigration or asylum, we particularly want you to apply. We’re committed to support you to develop in this role and if you want to…
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. You will conduct immigration and asylum casework within a team of advisers and representatives and…
GMIAU has been awarded funding by the Strategic Legal Fund (SLF) to research the delays in the asylum system, with a particular focus on young people. This builds on our earlier work highlighting the impact of delays on children and young people – in our March 2021 report which showed a deterioration in the…
Four years on, and with Windrush survivors still experiencing barriers to compensation, more legal support is available. On 22 June, to mark the annual Windrush Day, we are raising awareness of the free legal support available to help more than 11,000 survivors of the Windrush scandal. The programme aims to…
Today we are publishing a new report – ‘”Living in constant fear”: The impact of reporting conditions on children, young people and families in Greater Manchester.’ Click here to download our report. Part of the Hostile Environment, reporting is a system of immigration control imposed on people, requiring them to…
In April 2021 JCWI, in partnership with eight leading law firms (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Charles Russell Speechlys, Debevoise & Plimpton, Dechert, Latham & Watkins, Linklaters, Taylor Wessing and White & Case) set up the Windrush Legal Initiative to provide advice and support for people to apply to the Windrush…
GMIAU is looking for two volunteers to assist us with our Refugee Family Reunion Project. More information about the Project can be found here. Volunteers will help to prepare family reunion applications and gather evidence in support of applications. The successful candidates will need to commit to one day or…
Below we have collated the information currently available about routes to safety in the UK for people fleeing Ukraine. The UK government response has been inadequate and unclear. We will update this page with new information when it is published. Last updated 30.03.22 Ukrainians need a visa to enter the…
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…