APPG Inquiry into the Impact of the EU Settlement Scheme on EU citizens in the UK - report available
February 2023
The EU Settlement Scheme opened in 2019 and the deadline for applications was 30th June 2021. Those with pre-settled status are required to re-apply for settled status; there remain 188,170 outstanding applications; and there are individuals yet to make an initial application. It therefore remains important to continue to monitor how the scheme is operating. The report, which is based on submissions from frontline organisations working with EU citizens to secure their status, offers an evidence-based overview of the current concerns associated with the EU Settlement Scheme. The launch will include the presentation of recommendations from the inquiry together with organisations providing direct support to EU citizens in the UK EUSS. The APPG inquiry surveyed over 30 organisations across the UK that provide advice to EUSS applicants. We are aware that, with over 6.9 million completed applications, the EUSS has been the biggest immigration regularisation scheme ever implemented in British history. It’s presumption of ‘saying yes’ rather than ‘saying no’ to applications, and a digital application process which was, for many, simple and straightforward, has meant that the EUSS has been successfully able to honour our responsibilities to many EU citizens and their families after we left the EU. However, the report identified some outstanding challenges, and in consultation with experts working in this field, a number of key recommendations have been formulated. A downloadable version of the inquiry's full Report is now available.
RAMP Report 'Delivering on Operation Warm Welcome’: Reflections on the Welcome and Integration support provided to Afghans evacuated under Operation Pitting'
June 2022‘Operation Warm Welcome’ was launched by the UK government as a cross-departmental integration package to help Afghans who arrived in the summer of 2021 to settle and integrate in the UK. Support was promised on education, housing, employment and English language classes. As more than ten months have passed since Afghans have been relocated to the UK, RAMP has produced a research report that aims to provide a snapshot of the realities of the reception and welcome that Afghan families have encountered on the ground. Based on a review of existing studies and interviews with local authorities, national and local voluntary organizations and Afghans, the report aims to assess the progress on integration made by this cohort in relation to established markers of refugee integration. The report suggests a number of policy recommendations to the government to improve the integration prospects of this cohort and offers insights into how to strengthen the UK integration and resettlement infrastructures.
Read the report by clicking here.
NRPF and The Bristol Model: Bristol City Council Briefing Paper and Policy Recommendations
January 2022
Over the last year, the RAMP Team in Bristol and Bristol Refugee Rights (BRR) have worked in partnership to ensure that individuals living with the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition in Bristol are supported by the local Council and voluntary-sector organizations. Based on the ‘Bristol Model’ - an approach agreed by Bristol City Council leaders which combines listening from those with lived experience of the NRPF condition, learning from best practice in local authority across the country, and developing concrete policy recommendations - BRR and RAMP have published this policy briefing (external website) on how to improve the welfare of those subject to NRPF in Bristol.
Inquiry into the Impact of the New Immigration Rules
September 2021
On 1 January 2021, the new UK’s Points Based System came into effect, as part of an effort by the Government to ensure that the immigration system prioritises those who come to our country based on their skills. Working with Fragomen LLP, the APPG on Migration then conducted an inquiry to hear the effects that employers from different sectors, and in different parts of the country, were starting to experience. Based on a survey and follow-up interviews with employers of different sizes, the inquiry contains feedback about the positive and negative impacts of the new Immigration Rules on employers, employees, the wider economy and communities, to understand how they are responding and adapting to the new system. A version of the inquiry’s Report (external website) is now available.
Assessing the support given to people with No Recourse to Public Funds through the “Everyone In” initiative
21 June, 2021
This research is based on a Freedom of Information Request (FOI) from Neil Coyle MP, and supported by RAMP, to local authorities who took part in the “Everyone In” rough sleeping initiative. It outlines some of the different ways local authorities funded the support they provided to those rough sleeping, including those with the No Recourse to Public Funds visa condition.
Read a summary of the findings and linked data by clicking here.
RAMP Submission to the Home Office on Safe and Legal Routes
10 Feb, 2021
Four of RAMP’s parliamentary Principals sent a joint submission to the Home Office on 9th February 2021, ahead of the Department’s planned review of the safe and legal routes that people requiring protection from war and persecution can use to travel to the UK. This submission was created following a consultation process where the Parliamentarians listened to views and proposals from a range of around 20 NGOs, think tanks and academics. It summarises the areas of greatest consensus amongst this cross-party group.
RAMP Bristol Evaluation Report
31 Mar, 2020
Renaisi conducted an external evaluation of RAMP Bristol, an initiative funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation to second two Inclusion Advisors into the Mayor of Bristol’s Office, to help make inclusion a key theme of the Mayor’s administration. The initiative was launched in 2018 and has been funded until March 2021. Engaging a range of key stakeholders, the evaluation assesses the impact of the initiative on different stakeholders in the city, and collates suggestions and ideas for the remaining year of funding.
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RAMP Submission to Citizenship Inquiry
21 Oct, 2019
This report is the RAMP Project's submission to the British Future Citizenship Inquiry. It sets out areas for reform of citizenship policy that we believe can command widespread support across Parliament and the country. It also draws on research conducted by David Atter for the RAMP Project on the Customer Experience of citizenship application, which argues that the Home Office should apply Customer Experience methodology to address what for many, at present, is a demoralising and confusing process.
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The Work and Recommendations of Parliamentary Select Committees on Immigration Policy since 2010
7 Sep, 2018
This study by Peter Haddock comprises an overview of the work of House of Commons select committees as they have focused on the migration policies over the last 8 years. Concentrating primarily on the Home Affairs Select Committee, Haddock argues that the need for the legislature to hold the executive to account is ever more important, especially at a time when migration policy is at the front and centre of political argument.
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