Irene Tsherit
@irenetsherit.bsky.social
Immigration and asylum lawyer. Own views, mainly immigration law and policy.
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This is the cycle that fuels populist. It perpetuate policy failure while encouraging a narrative of scapegoating. The prime minister came to power promising to address it. Instead he now supports it.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This is the cycle that fuels populist. It perpetuate policy failure while encouraging a narrative of scapegoating. The prime minister came to power promising to address it. Instead he now supports it.
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And it’s not immigration that has caused this. These problems AND the immigration crisis are the result of government inertia and slow and bad decision making, wasting money on unworkable policies and austerity policies.
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
And it’s not immigration that has caused this. These problems AND the immigration crisis are the result of government inertia and slow and bad decision making, wasting money on unworkable policies and austerity policies.
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This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
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(3) Long term leave is crucial to secure safety, rights and recovery. Yet, in 2024, just 4% of survivors received a grant of VTS leave. Without stable immigration status, non-British survivors experience constant fear and anxiety and are pushed into poverty and destitution.
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
(3) Long term leave is crucial to secure safety, rights and recovery. Yet, in 2024, just 4% of survivors received a grant of VTS leave. Without stable immigration status, non-British survivors experience constant fear and anxiety and are pushed into poverty and destitution.
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PS Exactly this - whether deliberately or otherwise the Home Office just fail to co-operate in trying to manage appeals fairly or efficiently until everyone else loses patience. But somehow it's the fault of asylum seekers, or the judiciary, that the system is so dysfunctional
I don't do loads of appeals nowadays but the last one I did the tribunal eventually gave up trying to get the HO to carry out the review and just moved us on to the rest of the directions...
It’s also worth pointing out that the existing tribunal system, though underfunded, has made progress in making appeals run more smoothly- see 👇- often by trying to make the HO co-operate better in case management. The HO’s reaction to this is probably most charitably described as recalcitrant 11/
August 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
PS Exactly this - whether deliberately or otherwise the Home Office just fail to co-operate in trying to manage appeals fairly or efficiently until everyone else loses patience. But somehow it's the fault of asylum seekers, or the judiciary, that the system is so dysfunctional