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Zinhle
Legal cases 24 Feb 2026

Pregnancy, poverty, and precarious visas: how migrant women are punished for having children

Gaps in protections left a pregnant migrant carer abandoned by her sponsor, her employer, and the state, pushing the new mother and her baby into dire straits.

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Dr Madeleine Sumption
Policy 19 Feb 2026

Experts warn Parliament that ‘earned’ settlement proposals are risky for all

Across 12 oral evidence sessions, leading experts from academia, industry, the legal sector and civil society told the Commons and Lords: "earned" settlement plans risk causing serious damage to our society and economy.

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All Other Passports
Policy 19 Feb 2026

A fundamental rejection: our submission to the Home Office’s “earned” settlement

We have submitted supplementary evidence to the Home Office fundamentally rejecting the "earned” settlement proposals as they would undermine integration, increase poverty, and fuel systemic exploitation.

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Neil Duncan Jordan
Policy 12 Feb 2026

Over 70 parliamentarians join our call to axe retrospective settlement plans

A broad coalition of parliamentarians, unions, and civil society have joined the Work Rights Centre and Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan in an open letter urging the Home Secretary to halt the consultation on "earned" settlement.

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Shabana Mahmood (1)
Policy 2 Dec 2025

'Earned' settlement proposals: an extraordinary betrayal of migrant communities

New Home Office plans to retroactively double the baseline waiting period for settlement, and impose additional English and financial requirements for all, have delivered the biggest blow to migrant communities in a generation.

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