For a year, we've asked the UK Home Office to allow migrants to use a physicaI ID to prove their right to be in the UK.
This latest eVisa fiasco shows why this is urgently needed.
Write to your MP to demand this change ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-allow-physical-proof-immigration-status
#migrants #migrantdigitaljustice #evisa #immigration #digitalrights #ukpolitics #ukpol #hostileenvironment
What's the problem? Until recently, migrants from outside the EU had physical documents to prove that they and their families could live, work or study in the UK. These could be physical cards or stamps or stickers in their passports. The Home Office planned to replace these physical documents with e-Visas by the end of December 2024. These plans failed and now millions of people are having to use expired documents to prove their right to be in the UK.
The UK eVisa scheme gets even worse.
Migrants have been made to get an eVisa and then get told it's not accepted as valid ID or proof of immigration status!
This hostile scheme is pushing people into uncertainty and risks creating another Windrush scandal.
#migrants #migrantdigitaljustice #evisa #immigration #digitalrights #ukpolitics #ukpol #hostileenvironment
Migration: Reimagining the Conversation Around Movement, Labour & Identity.
ORG's Migrant Digital Justice Programme Manager @sarahalsherif is on the panel to discuss migrants' rights in the UK, including the hostile and broken eVisa scheme.
🗓️ Monday 30 June,
🕕 6.15pm BST
📍 UK House of Commons
Register now ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-reimagining-the-conversation-around-movement-labour-identity-tickets-1420893714349
The Digital Hostile Environment is expanding 🚨
The UK Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill gives broad powers to impose conditions on a person with lawful leave in the UK, including electronic monitoring and any other conditions the Home Secretary sees fit.
We demand #DigitalSanctuary for all migrants!
#DigitalHostileEnvironment #hostileenvironment #migrants #migrantdigitaljustice #immigration #surveillance #ukpolitics #ukpol
"The increasing use of biometric surveillance risks automating the inequality and discrimination already baked into the immigration services and policing."
Find out more about the UK government's digital hostile environment impacts migrants and refugees in the latest blog from the Migrants' Rights Network.
#surveillance #migrantdigitaljustice #ukpolitics #migrants
https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/digital-hostile-environment/
Migrants' data rights are under attack.
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will exacerbate the existing power imbalances of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers over their data, leading to significant harm.
Read our latest blog by @sarahalsherif – ORG Programme Manager – and the full briefing on the harms of the Bill.
#DPDIBill #MigrantDigitalJustice #dataprotection #GDPR #privacy
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/migrants-data-rights-under-attack/
What does the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill mean for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees?
@sarahalsherif – ORG Programme Manager – explains how the #DPDIBill will weaken data protection and put vulnerable communities at greater risk.
We demand strong data rights!
The police have collected biometric data of 2,400 unaccompanied child asylum seekers under 'Operation Innerste'. This data is shared with immigration enforcement and can be held for at least five years. A huge and outrageous violation of data rights.
We’re welcoming @sarahalsherif to Open Rights Group as the Migrant Digital Justice Programme Manager!
Sara joins us to work with migrants’ rights communities and movements to challenge the government’s digital hostile environment.
#MigrantDigitalJustice #humanrights #dataprotection
Find our more about Sara here: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/introducing-sara-alsherif/
The UK government’s refusal to address the harms caused by the immigration exception shows that its priority is "maintaining the hostile digital environment rather than a fair and transparent immigration system.”
@meg, ORG's Head of Policy and Litigation on today's second judicial review against the government with the3million.
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