Six lessons from my spouse visa application

Making an immigration application for clients is all in a day’s work, but working on your own wife’s visa is enough to reduce even an expert to tears, writes an anonymous Free Movement contributor. While courting my wife during a sabbatical abroad, I would worry about things like whether I had bits of food on …

Osinbajo committee and Fulani herdsmen terrorism by Olubode Olusesan

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THE Federal Government finally roused itself from its tepid, partisan response to the orgy of killings and arson by Fulani militia late in January by empanelling a committee of 10, headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. With nine state governors on board, it is expected to address the lingering problem of frequent attacks by Fulani herdsmen …

As a doctor, I can see that denying NHS care to immigrants is inhumaneby Dr Kitty Worthing

Last week, the Guardian reported on the case of Albert Thompson, a man who came to London 44 years ago from Jamaica, at a time when many people from Commonwealth countries were migrating to the UK. This includes, of course, the thousands of nurses from Jamaica recruited in response to the NHS staffing crisis of …

Home Office broke its own rules by taking children into care by Diane Taylor

The Home Office broke its own rules when British children had to be taken into care after officials arrested their father. The children, aged eight, six and five, were expecting to be collected from school near their home in Manchester by their father, Kenneth Oranyendu, 45, on Friday afternoon but instead social workers took them …

Memorandum of memorandum

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released to the public a redacted, previously classified memorandum prepared by the Democratic Minority that corrects the record about the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections and links between the Russian government and individuals associated …