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Free Movement
Updates and comment on UK immigration law
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Immigration roundup: September 2025
September brought us a new Home Secretary who immediately made some inaccurate comments about “last minute” legal challenges to removal and the modern...
Immigration roundup: August 2025
Let's face it, August was a rough one and hopefully most of you managed to escape it for a summer holiday at some point, in which case you definitely...
Immigration roundup: July 2025
July was actually a fairly busy month! Join Sonia and Barry as they run you through what happened, including the changes to the skilled worker route,...
Immigration roundup: June 2025
Time for your June round up of all things Free Movement - and Barry is back! In this month's episode both Sonia and Barry divulge some rather niche in...
Immigration roundup: May 2025
May is over and the immigration white paper has finally been published, so Sonia spends a bit of time at the beginning of this month's podcast relivin...
Immigration roundup: April 2025
It was a relatively quiet April ahead of what looks to be a busy May. Sonia is joined by Andrew again this month. Sonia runs through the amendments ma...
Immigration roundup: March 2025
This month Barry is away and so his colleague Andrew Jones has stepped up and stepped in to co-host with Sonia, and frankly made it all look rather ea...
Immigration roundup: February 2025
The February podcast is here! We kick off with Sonia briefly summarising the recently published statistics for 2024. There was then a lot to cover on...
Immigration roundup: January 2025
Sonia and Barry are back already to celebrate the end of January! There is a brief look back at 2024 and look forward to 2025 which of course now incl...
Immigration roundup: December 2024
It’s goodbye to 2024 in this month’s podcast, with Sonia and Barry wrapping up December. They spend a bit of time discussing eVisas at the beginning o...
Immigration roundup: November 2024
Barry returns and joins Sonia to run you through November on Free Movement. It was statistics galore for Sonia who covered the latest immigration, asy...
Immigration roundup: October 2024
Colin's back! But for how long? All is revealed in our October roundup podcast. Plus Sonia and Colin discuss hot topics such as the new practice direc...
Immigration roundup: September 2024
In this episode of the podcast Barry does everyone a big favour by taking us through the autumn statement of changes in detail. Sonia and Barry also h...
Immigration roundup: August 2024
Barry joins Sonia again this month to look back at what happened in August. We cover the latest statistics on asylum, immigration and trafficking. The...
Immigration roundup: July 2024
It's August and Colin is away on holiday so Sonia was joined by a very special guest, Barry O'Leary, for the July roundup. Sonia and Barry discussed t...
Immigration roundup: June 2024
Here is your June round up of Free Movement. In this episode Colin and Sonia discuss why the Illegal Migration Act should be repealed, an appalling de...
Exploitation of overseas domestic workers
In this podcast Sonia discusses Kalayaan's new report "12 years of modern slavery" with Avril Sharp, immigration lawyer and policy officer. The report...
Immigration roundup: May 2024
Here is your May round up of Free Movement. In this episode Colin and Sonia look at the latest immigration, asylum and trafficking statistics, includi...
Immigration roundup: April 2024
In the April roundup Colin and Sonia cover the new Rwanda Act and the process for sending a person to Rwanda, challenges to the use of the inadmissibi...
Immigration roundup: March 2024
In the March roundup, Sonia and Colin discuss the latest with Albanian cases as uncovered in the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigratio...
Immigration roundup: February 2024
Your February roundup is here as promised. Colin and Sonia discuss Shamima Begum's latest appeal, the pause on some asylum cases, a run of decisions i...
Immigration roundup: January 2024
Colin and Sonia have rounded up January 2024. We cover the government's claims to have cleared the 'legacy' asylum backlog and look at the three backl...
Immigration roundup: December 2023
In our December 2023 round up, Colin and Sonia discuss the latest developments with Home Office evictions and withdrawals, as well as the new Rwanda l...
Immigration roundup: November 2023
Our November roundup is here, where Colin and I cover the latest asylum and trafficking statistics, changes to the way late applications to the EUSS a...
Rwanda discussion and immigration roundup: October 2023
Our October immigration round up is here and we have also included discussion of the Supreme Court's decision in the Rwanda litigation. As well as tha...
Exploitation and the seasonal agricultural workers scheme
This week, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism published an article on the exploitation of people in the seasonal agricultural workers scheme. It i...
Immigration roundup: September 2023
Our September roundup is here, featuring the latest statement of changes and new parts of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 being brought into force. We...
Immigration roundup: August 2023
Here is our August roundup, and the first podcast with Sonia both leading and at the editing helm (eek!). This month we cover statistics, illegal work...
Immigration roundup: July 2023
We are a bit behind the times this month, catching up from the summer. This time Sonia and I cover not one but two statements of changes, the Illegal...
Immigration roundup: June 2023
This month Sonia and I discuss the Rwanda judgment (we're saving that to the end as our good news story), a couple of fairly lengthy immigration and a...
Immigration roundup: May 2023
This month Sonia and I start with the Big Free Movement News (spoiler: Sonia is joining the team as the new Editor) and then cover a bunch of visa new...
Immigration roundup: April 2023
This month we talk more about the Illegal Migration Bill and its potential consequences, the right way to go about tackling the asylum backlog, Colin'...
Immigration roundup: March 2023
For this month's roundup podcast, Sonia and I manage to rattle through a huge volume of updates in a mere 36 minutes. We cover a load of cases, some i...
Podcast special: the Illegal Migration Bill
Colin Yeo and Sonia Lenegan discuss the Illegal Migration Bill. They talk through what is in it, what will it do, how is it intended to work, whether...
Immigration roundup: February 2023
This month Sonia and I talk a bit about denaturalisation generally and the case of Shamima Begum specifically, we cover the new streamlined asylum pro...
Immigration round up: January 2023
This month Sonia and I talk through various government policies all about being horrible to migrants. It's a seemingly inexhaustible vein. Indeed, the...
Immigration roundup: a look back at 2022 and ahead to 2023
Colin and Sonia take a look back at 2022 and ahead to 2023 as well as covering the immigration updates from December 2022. Looking back, they talk abo...
Immigration roundup: November 2022
This month, Colin and Sonia mainly talk about an avalanche of asylum related news, law and updates. It's not all asylum, though, there's also some blo...
Immigration roundup: October 2022
Welcome to the October 2022 episode of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month, Colin and Sonia talk politics, asylum, the statement...
Immigration update podcast: September 2022
Welcome to the September 2022 episode of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. This month Colin is joined again by “immigration lawyer about t...