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…
This position is now closed. GMIAU is hiring a Project Worker! The main purpose of the post is to assist people who are in need as part of our project ‘Connecting People, Preventing Crisis’. Specifically, this includes people who are homeless and destitute, children and young people, people who have…
Today we’ve published a new report, “Wasted childhoods: the impact of COVID-19 asylum delays on children in the North West of England”. You can download it here. Don’t have time to read the full report? Scroll down for our key findings and recommendations. It’s also been reported in the Guardian…
In this post, we’re sharing information about the 2021 UK Census. People who are already vulnerable, like those with insecure immigration status, may be less likely to complete the census. But this means that not only are those people at risk of being fined – they’re at risk of being…
Denise McDowell, GMIAU’s Director, was interviewed as part of a blog series by the Legal Education Foundation. She spoke about the overwhelming early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when it became clear that we were facing “something bigger and different from anything we had experienced before”. Since then, flexibility from…
The NHS is vaccinating millions of people against Covid-19. But people with insecure immigration status, or no status at all, may incorrectly think that they can’t go to a doctor. You are entitled to register with a GP and receive the vaccine, regardless of your immigration status. You do…