Thread by @ILPAimmigration

🧵Great news! 👏👏On day 2 Report Stage of the #NationalityandBordersBill yesterday, the @UKHouseofLords voted to defeat the Government 8 times, on several important counts, in order to👇:

1⃣Remove Clause 15 which would give the Home Secretary powers to deem a person’s #asylum claim ‘inadmissible’, denying them access to the asylum system unless there are exceptional circumstances, if they travelled through or had a connection to a ‘safe’ third country (221-172)

2⃣Remove Clause 28(a) which would give the Government powers to remove people seeking asylum and detain them in offshore #detention centres (208-155)

3⃣Remove part of Clause 39 which would #criminalise people arriving in the UK, rather than entering the UK (101-96): bit.ly/3IIPjMC

4⃣Remove a subsection of Clause 40 to maintain the current position that the offence of helping an asylum seeker to enter the United Kingdom can only be committed if it is carried out “for gain” (86-84): bit.ly/3IIPjMC

5⃣Insert a requirement that the maritime enforcement powers in Schedule 6 to the Bill must not be used in a manner or in circumstances that could endanger life at sea (83-76): bit.ly/3CeaHa6

6⃣Insert a clause for a new #familyreunion route in the Immigration Rules to allow certain people in Europe to join a family member in the UK for the purposes of claiming asylum (178-130). Thanks to @AlfDubs @safepassageuk @SarahLudford @BishopPaulB and Lord Kerr of Kinlochard.

7⃣Insert a new #resettlement clause that will commit the UK to resettling a minimum of 10,000 refugees in the UK each year #TogetherWithRefugees (169-122)

8⃣Insert a new clause meaning those at risk of #genocide must be presumed to meet the conditions of claiming asylum in the UK, and would leave the adjudication of whether a genocide was under way to a judge of the High Court of England and Wales (172-120)

9⃣👏👏We are grateful to @BishopPaulB, @BishGloucester, Baroness Chakrabarti, Baroness Lister, @mcashmanCBE, Baroness Hamwee, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood & Lord Rosser for opposing Clauses 31 & 32, which alter the standard of proof and re-define a particular social group.

⚡️⚡️Day 3 of Report stage will take place on 8th March, #IWD2022, and we will be urging peers to:

🚨1. Amend the Overseas Domestic Worker visa to restore rights and provide protection to #domesticworkers so they may escape exploitation - see our joint briefing with @Kalayaan @kanlunganuk @JCWI_UK @libertyhq @thevoiceofdws: kalayaan.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

🚨2. We, along with @HRW @AfghanAgencies @SulhaAlliance @womenforwomenUK @TheHALOTrust @lhpiron, also urge members of the House of Lords to support an amendment expanding the Afghan Relocations Assistance Policy (#ARAP): bit.ly/3McKvkE

🚨3. We join @Amnesty and @PRCBC1 to support an amendment for looked after #children and victims of historic injustice to register as citizens for free, & to stop the Home Office from charging prohibitive registration fees that restrict citizenship rights: bit.ly/3C7bbie