Praxis, for migrants and refugees
@praxisprojects.bsky.social
We're the largest provider of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
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Hi new followers! We're an award-winning human rights charity fighting for migrant rights since 1983.
We do this by providing free legal advice, giving community support, and campaigning for change.
When politicians seek to divide us and treat migrants with cruelty, we refuse to accept it.
We do this by providing free legal advice, giving community support, and campaigning for change.
When politicians seek to divide us and treat migrants with cruelty, we refuse to accept it.
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If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social
The number of people migrating to the UK is down, again.
Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.
Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The number of people migrating to the UK is down, again.
Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.
Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.
Today’s budget simply doesn’t meet the scale of the challenges facing our country. You can’t build strong public services while proposing migration policies that drive out the people who deliver them. You can’t cut waiting lists without doctors, nurses, carers, & support staff who make the NHS run.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Today’s budget simply doesn’t meet the scale of the challenges facing our country. You can’t build strong public services while proposing migration policies that drive out the people who deliver them. You can’t cut waiting lists without doctors, nurses, carers, & support staff who make the NHS run.
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The proposed settlement changes are really difficult to understand and very stressful if you or someone you know is a migrant. Read our explainer below so you can stay up to date with what's happening.
Last week the Government announced changes to settlement, turning the lives of millions of people upside down. Here's what we know so far 👉 www.praxis.org.uk/news/explain...
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Explainer: statement and consultation on “earned settlement” — Praxis
On Thursday 20th November, the government published a statement and a consultation on their planned changes to settlement in the UK (also known as indefinite leave to remain or ILR). In sh...
www.praxis.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The proposed settlement changes are really difficult to understand and very stressful if you or someone you know is a migrant. Read our explainer below so you can stay up to date with what's happening.
“By rushing through these draconian immigration reforms now – at precisely the same moment the Government proclaims it is investing to end homelessness – we know the very opposite will happen: more people at risk of destitution and even sleeping on the streets." @josephinewy.bsky.social
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“By rushing through these draconian immigration reforms now – at precisely the same moment the Government proclaims it is investing to end homelessness – we know the very opposite will happen: more people at risk of destitution and even sleeping on the streets." @josephinewy.bsky.social
Last week the Government announced changes to settlement, turning the lives of millions of people upside down. Here's what we know so far 👉 www.praxis.org.uk/news/explain...
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Explainer: statement and consultation on “earned settlement” — Praxis
On Thursday 20th November, the government published a statement and a consultation on their planned changes to settlement in the UK (also known as indefinite leave to remain or ILR). In sh...
www.praxis.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Last week the Government announced changes to settlement, turning the lives of millions of people upside down. Here's what we know so far 👉 www.praxis.org.uk/news/explain...
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
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📢 Migrant Workers' Rights – National Emergency Demonstration
⏰ Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📍 Birmingham City Centre
Join us in solidarity with ALL migrants, people seeking asylum & refugees.
Pass it on.
Follow for updates @regulariseuk.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @migrantsrights.bsky.social
⏰ Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📍 Birmingham City Centre
Join us in solidarity with ALL migrants, people seeking asylum & refugees.
Pass it on.
Follow for updates @regulariseuk.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @migrantsrights.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
📢 Migrant Workers' Rights – National Emergency Demonstration
⏰ Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📍 Birmingham City Centre
Join us in solidarity with ALL migrants, people seeking asylum & refugees.
Pass it on.
Follow for updates @regulariseuk.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @migrantsrights.bsky.social
⏰ Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📍 Birmingham City Centre
Join us in solidarity with ALL migrants, people seeking asylum & refugees.
Pass it on.
Follow for updates @regulariseuk.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @migrantsrights.bsky.social
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"Despite their hollow words, this Government is betraying it’s promises to millions of people who have lived and worked here for years. This is a retreat into a smaller, meaner England - one where belonging is rationed, and diversity is punished.” 2/2
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Despite their hollow words, this Government is betraying it’s promises to millions of people who have lived and worked here for years. This is a retreat into a smaller, meaner England - one where belonging is rationed, and diversity is punished.” 2/2
“These earned-settlement changes will devastate the lives of people across the UK and are completely at odds with the realities of this country’s economic needs. You cannot talk about growth and belonging while building a two-tier immigration system." @josephinewy.bsky.social, Head of Advocacy 1/2
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“These earned-settlement changes will devastate the lives of people across the UK and are completely at odds with the realities of this country’s economic needs. You cannot talk about growth and belonging while building a two-tier immigration system." @josephinewy.bsky.social, Head of Advocacy 1/2
🚨Making it harder for migrants to settle in the UK is yet another act of economic vandalism🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🚨Making it harder for migrants to settle in the UK is yet another act of economic vandalism🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Stripping possessions from people who've already lost their homes; forcing families apart; refusing refugees stability and denying support to people who are destitute.
Here's what we know so far about today's new raft of terrifying anti-refugee laws 👇
asylummatters.org/2025/11/17/n...
Here's what we know so far about today's new raft of terrifying anti-refugee laws 👇
asylummatters.org/2025/11/17/n...
New anti-refugee laws put asylum rights under more threat than ever - Asylum Matters
New asylum law changes announced by the Home Secretary put refugee rights at risk - here's what we know so far
asylummatters.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Stripping possessions from people who've already lost their homes; forcing families apart; refusing refugees stability and denying support to people who are destitute.
Here's what we know so far about today's new raft of terrifying anti-refugee laws 👇
asylummatters.org/2025/11/17/n...
Here's what we know so far about today's new raft of terrifying anti-refugee laws 👇
asylummatters.org/2025/11/17/n...
📢 @minnierahman.bsky.social “Stripping migrants of basic human rights isn’t 'reform', it’s the first step down a dangerous slope. Today it’s migrants. Tomorrow it’s anyone who becomes politically inconvenient”.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Asylum seekers only allowed to stay in the UK temporarily, Mahmood to announce
Shabana Mahmood promises ‘the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times’ in Monday speech
www.independent.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📢 @minnierahman.bsky.social “Stripping migrants of basic human rights isn’t 'reform', it’s the first step down a dangerous slope. Today it’s migrants. Tomorrow it’s anyone who becomes politically inconvenient”.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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🚨🚨🚨
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Asylum Hotels Report
Our new report, Profiting from People: Inside the UK’s Asylum Hotels , exposes the true horrors that refugees face whilst housed for years on end in asylum hotels. We’ve long known this, and now...
www.ramfel.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🚨🚨🚨
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Today we joined over 100+ organisations calling on the Government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the same chance to thrive, no matter their background.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap
‘Abolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of children’s lives on a path to a brighter future’, major organisations say
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Today we joined over 100+ organisations calling on the Government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the same chance to thrive, no matter their background.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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🚨ACT NOW: Stand with NHS nurses facing deportation!
300 Band 3 Nursing Assistants employed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust may lose their jobs & right to stay in the UK due to the Trust's inaction.
👉Tell the Trust to safeguard jobs NOW:
patientsnotpassports.co.uk/nurses-in-ma...
300 Band 3 Nursing Assistants employed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust may lose their jobs & right to stay in the UK due to the Trust's inaction.
👉Tell the Trust to safeguard jobs NOW:
patientsnotpassports.co.uk/nurses-in-ma...
Nurses in Manchester at Risk of Deportation – Patients Not Passports
patientsnotpassports.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨ACT NOW: Stand with NHS nurses facing deportation!
300 Band 3 Nursing Assistants employed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust may lose their jobs & right to stay in the UK due to the Trust's inaction.
👉Tell the Trust to safeguard jobs NOW:
patientsnotpassports.co.uk/nurses-in-ma...
300 Band 3 Nursing Assistants employed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust may lose their jobs & right to stay in the UK due to the Trust's inaction.
👉Tell the Trust to safeguard jobs NOW:
patientsnotpassports.co.uk/nurses-in-ma...
BREAKING: High Court finds no evidence that asylum seekers in Epping hotel are a strain on local GPs or social services.
Regardless of this decision, hotels & military sites are wholly unsuitable for housing people seeking asylum who are fleeing persecution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Regardless of this decision, hotels & military sites are wholly unsuitable for housing people seeking asylum who are fleeing persecution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
High Court rules asylum seekers can stay at Epping hotel
A council has lost its legal battle with the government in a landmark High Court ruling.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
BREAKING: High Court finds no evidence that asylum seekers in Epping hotel are a strain on local GPs or social services.
Regardless of this decision, hotels & military sites are wholly unsuitable for housing people seeking asylum who are fleeing persecution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Regardless of this decision, hotels & military sites are wholly unsuitable for housing people seeking asylum who are fleeing persecution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Adopting a Denmark-style immigration model is a dangerous new low from our Government. Pushing temporary status, harsher family reunion rules and “parallel society” labels throws basic rights under the bus in a bid to win cheap votes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Adopting a Denmark-style immigration model is a dangerous new low from our Government. Pushing temporary status, harsher family reunion rules and “parallel society” labels throws basic rights under the bus in a bid to win cheap votes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
We've been blown away by the response to our survey about the Government's proposed changes to settlement - almost 1,500 people have got in touch to share their thoughts.
It's not too late to share yours - tell us before it closes this Sunday: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF
It's not too late to share yours - tell us before it closes this Sunday: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF
Survey: changes to settlement and citizenship in the UK
If you think you'll be affected by the changes proposed by the UK government to settlement and citizenship, please tell us what you think.
www.surveymonkey.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We've been blown away by the response to our survey about the Government's proposed changes to settlement - almost 1,500 people have got in touch to share their thoughts.
It's not too late to share yours - tell us before it closes this Sunday: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF
It's not too late to share yours - tell us before it closes this Sunday: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF
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While headlines focus on how many people claim asylum in the UK, there's one number that's not even officially counted:
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
While headlines focus on how many people claim asylum in the UK, there's one number that's not even officially counted:
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
NEW MERCH: We're so excited to share our new collection, designed by youth community group Brighter Futures. All designs are printed on organic cotton using renewable energy and available to buy from the Praxis Store. Just in time for Christmas!
Shop now: praxis-store.org.uk/collection/b...
Shop now: praxis-store.org.uk/collection/b...
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NEW MERCH: We're so excited to share our new collection, designed by youth community group Brighter Futures. All designs are printed on organic cotton using renewable energy and available to buy from the Praxis Store. Just in time for Christmas!
Shop now: praxis-store.org.uk/collection/b...
Shop now: praxis-store.org.uk/collection/b...
“People have the right to depend upon the law and not changing that substantially retrospectively. It undermines the basic rule of law if you can change the law at any time and apply it retrospectively.” Bethan Lant, lawyer at Praxis
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage’s plan to scrap ILR would be blocked in the courts, lawyers say
Exclusive: Tory former solicitor general and justice secretary warns plan ‘runs counter to our British values’
www.independent.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
“People have the right to depend upon the law and not changing that substantially retrospectively. It undermines the basic rule of law if you can change the law at any time and apply it retrospectively.” Bethan Lant, lawyer at Praxis
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
📢 @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social "In Parliament, I was able to call Pochin’s comments racist, but I was unable to call the person making the comments racist. Pochin’s comments cannot go unpunished."
metro.co.uk/2025/10/28/c...
metro.co.uk/2025/10/28/c...
I called Reform MP's comments racist - I was told I couldn't call her one
It seems clear that Pochin doesn't think of Black or Brown families as being representative of this country.
metro.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social "In Parliament, I was able to call Pochin’s comments racist, but I was unable to call the person making the comments racist. Pochin’s comments cannot go unpunished."
metro.co.uk/2025/10/28/c...
metro.co.uk/2025/10/28/c...
Military sites are unfit to house people fleeing war & persecution.
Falsely sold as 'cost-cutting', these plans come at huge financial & human cost.
Write to your MP - tell them people seeking asylum should be welcomed as our neighbours, not warehoused in camps: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Falsely sold as 'cost-cutting', these plans come at huge financial & human cost.
Write to your MP - tell them people seeking asylum should be welcomed as our neighbours, not warehoused in camps: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
#CommunitiesNotCamps
I've written to my MP to ask them to oppose all camp-style asylum accommodation and house people seeking asylum in safe and suitable housing within communities where they can rebuild their lives in di...
actionnetwork.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Military sites are unfit to house people fleeing war & persecution.
Falsely sold as 'cost-cutting', these plans come at huge financial & human cost.
Write to your MP - tell them people seeking asylum should be welcomed as our neighbours, not warehoused in camps: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Falsely sold as 'cost-cutting', these plans come at huge financial & human cost.
Write to your MP - tell them people seeking asylum should be welcomed as our neighbours, not warehoused in camps: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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Military sites are never suitable for people seeking protection. We've been here before.
Only yesterday, the Home Affairs Committee pointed out the costs of cruelty - financial and human - warning against 'rushing to deliver short-term solutions that later unravel'.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Only yesterday, the Home Affairs Committee pointed out the costs of cruelty - financial and human - warning against 'rushing to deliver short-term solutions that later unravel'.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two military sites named as ministers aim to close asylum hotels
Housing asylum seekers in hotels has cost billions, while they have also become a focal point for protests.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Military sites are never suitable for people seeking protection. We've been here before.
Only yesterday, the Home Affairs Committee pointed out the costs of cruelty - financial and human - warning against 'rushing to deliver short-term solutions that later unravel'.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Only yesterday, the Home Affairs Committee pointed out the costs of cruelty - financial and human - warning against 'rushing to deliver short-term solutions that later unravel'.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.