An overview of immigration advice services in England and Wales

This was to be addressed by providing an overview of the immigration legal sector, examining the diff erent types of immigration advisers, assessing the impact of the changes to legal aid and considering the groups most vulnerable to harm or injustice due to a lack of immigration advice and representation. [...] To evaluate existing immigration legal provision, the report looks at the diff erence between the two main types of immigration advisers – solicitors and advisers regulated by the Offi ce of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) – and examines the areas of immigration law in which they are allowed to practise. [...] The purpose of the scheme is to allow EU citizens resident in the UK prior to the end of the transition period after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU to apply for status to remain in the UK after Brexit. [...] Politics drives changes in the immigration system and criticisms of both the system and the implementation of the Immigration Rules by the Home Offi ce are widespread and well known. [...] But the nail in the coffi n of justifi cation is that, on the evidence I have seen, the scheme has had little or no effect.” 26 “I n my judgement, the experience of the implementation of the scheme throughout England has been not that there will be merely a risk of illegality should the scheme be extended to the devolved territories but a certainty of illegality because landlords in those territor.