Immigration and Asylum Bill

What this bill does

Currently at Committee stage in the Commons.

Overhauls immigration appeals, asylum rules and modern slavery law.

This bill would remake major parts of the UK immigration and asylum system, including appeals, human rights claims, protection rules and asylum support recovery. It also changes modern slavery law by expanding orders, monitoring and reporting, while reducing some existing routes to leave and recovery support. The latest version replaces earlier structures with a new Independent Immigration Appeals Authority and a broader ‘core protection’ model.

• Set up a new Independent Immigration Appeals Authority to take over immigration, nationality and asylum appeals from the current tribunal system.
• Give the new appeals body powers to manage cases, set procedure rules, review some of its own decisions, and allow onward appeals to the Upper Tribunal on points of law.
• Create a claim notice system requiring people liable to removal or deportation to set out all reasons they wish to stay in the UK by a deadline.
• Run late claims through a separate process where the person missed the deadline.
• Narrow how Article 8 family life claims are assessed and give greater weight to public interest factors such as immigration status, financial independence and criminal history.
• Extend the deportation-related Article 8 framework to cover all people liable to deportation, not only foreign criminals.
• Allow sponsor-based human rights claims for overseas family members through a UK sponsor.
• Replace current asylum, refugee and humanitarian protection arrangements with a new 'core protection' model using regulations made by the Secretary of State.
• Allow the Home Home Office to recover some asylum support costs from people who later become able to pay, with exemptions and a no-destitution safeguard.
• Expand modern slavery prevention and risk orders, including on acquittal, and add electronic monitoring and notification requirements.
• Expand who can apply for modern slavery orders, including police and British Transport Police.
• Change how modern slavery victims are identified and how credibility is assessed, including greater scrutiny of late disclosure.
• End the general duty to grant temporary leave to remain for recovery, while keeping some leave for compensation or cooperation with investigations.
• Expand modern slavery reporting duties, require specific statement content and electronic submission, and create financial penalties for non-compliance.

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Progress

1. 1st reading · Commons
2. 2nd reading · Commons
3. Programme motion · Commons
4. Money resolution · Commons
5. Ways and Means resolution · Commons
6. Committee stage · Commons