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Why focus *only* on Nigerians? Would Nick be outraged if 50,000 white Canadians brought their dependents to the UK?
Right-wing pundit, Nick Timothy, is using the 'bogus student' line to promote disastrous Tory policies that will harm working class migrant students.
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Right-wing pundit, Nick Timothy, is using the 'bogus student' line to promote disastrous Tory policies that will harm working class migrant students.
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Bringing dependants as a migrant student is both not easy & very expensive. One has to pay visa fees which amount to £1,538 if the dependent is applying outside of the UK. Additionally, dependents have to pay the international health surcharge fee to access the NHS.
In total, if you are family of four, one migrant PGR student, three dependents applying from out of the UK, you are looking at spending £4,977 in visa fees and an additional £10,940 for the international health surcharge fee. And these fees are increasing each year.
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As @UnisNotBorders approaches another yr of organising during the Covid pandemic, we want to share highlights of what we've done in 2021 & what we hope to accomplish approaching our 6th yr of advocating for migrant university staff & students against #HostileEnvironment.
As @UnisNotBorders approaches another yr of organising during the Covid pandemic, we want to share highlights of what we've done in 2021 & what we hope to accomplish approaching our 6th yr of advocating for migrant university staff & students against #HostileEnvironment.
January 20201
@UnisNotBorders kept the pressure by amplifying in @FT the how UK universities were putting migrant student into destitution & how #NRPF, #HostileEnvironment & marketised higher education are all harming migrant students during pandemic: ft.com/content/3ab6be…
@UnisNotBorders kept the pressure by amplifying in @FT the how UK universities were putting migrant student into destitution & how #NRPF, #HostileEnvironment & marketised higher education are all harming migrant students during pandemic: ft.com/content/3ab6be…
February 2021
@UnisNotBorders commences the #EmmaHardlyWorking campaign targeting @UKLabour Shadow Education Minister (from January 2020-March 2021) who failed to respond to our letter around migrant student destitution, & forced withdrawals. More here: facebook.com/UnisResist.Bor…
@UnisNotBorders commences the #EmmaHardlyWorking campaign targeting @UKLabour Shadow Education Minister (from January 2020-March 2021) who failed to respond to our letter around migrant student destitution, & forced withdrawals. More here: facebook.com/UnisResist.Bor…
1/ JUST OUT: New FLEX research with @IWGBunion @UVWunion on the experiences of migrant workers in low-paid & insecure work during #COVID19 finds high risk of labour #exploitation
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2/ The report shows how workers already vulnerable to labour abuse & exploitation because of low pay & job insecurity were made more so by the UK’s social security system & immigration restrictions like #NRPF.
3/ Participants faced issues including:
- Not being paid wages owed (44%)
- Being exposed to Covid-19 at work (17%)
- Being asked to work without social distancing or PPE (12%)
- Being forced to work when ill (8%)
- Redundancy (33%)
- Excessive workload (16%)
- Sexual harassment
- Not being paid wages owed (44%)
- Being exposed to Covid-19 at work (17%)
- Being asked to work without social distancing or PPE (12%)
- Being forced to work when ill (8%)
- Redundancy (33%)
- Excessive workload (16%)
- Sexual harassment
The death of Mercy Baguma is appalling - don't let anyone tell you that it is just a one-off though. This has happened before, and without urgent policy change it is likely to happen again. Here's why (Thread) #NRPF #UKDestitution #HostileEnvironment
It seems impossible that this could happen in the UK, let alone repeatedly, but here are two other examples. In 2016, a mother and her two-year-old daughter starved to death in Kent: mirror.co.uk/news/world-new…
In 2010, a baby starved to death in London. His mother died soon after: ibtimes.co.uk/uk-border-agen…
To understand the full impact that the #NoRecourseToPublicFunds policy has in people in the asylum system like this destitution grant recipient of ours (see story below), here is the full list of public funds that you cannot access under the #NRPF condition:
Here is a definitive list of what counts as “public funds” for the purposes of U.K. Immigration Rules:
attendance allowance
carers allowance
child benefit
child tax credit
council tax benefit
council tax reduction
disability living allowance
attendance allowance
carers allowance
child benefit
child tax credit
council tax benefit
council tax reduction
disability living allowance
- discretionary support payments by local authorities or devolved administrations in Scotland and Northern Ireland
- housing and homelessness assistance
- housing benefit
- income-based jobseeker’s allowance
- income related employment & support allowance
- housing and homelessness assistance
- housing benefit
- income-based jobseeker’s allowance
- income related employment & support allowance
/// THREAD on Chancellor @RishiSunak's announcement tonight on the future of the income support schemes. 1/
After considerable media speculation, the Chancellor has finally pronounced on the economic future of millions, by detailing the changes to be made to the #JobRetentionScheme (JRS) and the #SelfEmployedIncomeSupportScheme (SEISS). theguardian.com/politics/2020/… 2/
These have been the two most important income support measures in what is likely to be the biggest economic recession in modern history. Both had serious shortcomings from the get-go. 3/
On the 12th March we outlined our position that the Immigration Health Surcharge should be scrapped, not increased - read our statement at: docsnotcops.co.uk/scrap-the-immi… (1/THREAD) #ScrapTheSurcharge #PatientsNotPassports
This was the day after @RishiSunak announced that the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) – paid at point of visa application/renewal would rise from £400/year to £624/year (disgustingly, as he announced Coronavirus measures)
2/Thread #ScrapTheSurcharge #PatientsNotPassports
2/Thread #ScrapTheSurcharge #PatientsNotPassports
On 12th March we said:
* #ScrapTheSurcharge in its entirety
* Charging for NHS access is about govt tearing up universal care, not raising money
* IHS is an additional tax on migrants
* The IHS is motivated by furthering xenophobic & racist narratives /3 #PatientsNotPassports
* #ScrapTheSurcharge in its entirety
* Charging for NHS access is about govt tearing up universal care, not raising money
* IHS is an additional tax on migrants
* The IHS is motivated by furthering xenophobic & racist narratives /3 #PatientsNotPassports
