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My name is Colin Yeo and I am a barrister, writer, campaigner and consultant specialising in immigration law. I founded Free Movement in 2007.
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Salary: £34,650 – £41,500 gross per annum at 1.0 FTE. Working pattern: 1.0 FTE (37.5 hrs per week), or 0.9 or 0.8 FTE. Flexible working requests will be considered. Contract: Permanent with a 6 months probationary period Team: UK Legal Team Location: This role can be hybrid, or office based....
BY Free Movement
The latest quarterly immigration and asylum statistics have been published, covering the period January to March 2025. The asylum backlog is down, but that is fairly meaningless given how atrocious decision making is at the moment, those cases are now the First-tier Tribunal’s problem. Syrians seeking asylum in the UK...
BY Sonia Lenegan
We often get questions about how to become an Immigration Advice Authority (‘IAA’ – previously known as the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner / OISC) adviser so we have compiled all the essential information in one place for you. The first thing to say is that if you are...
BY Jasmine Quiller-Doust
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal, which had agreed with the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision to dismiss an appeal against deprivation of British citizenship and an application for entry clearance by a woman in Syria. The case is U3 v Secretary of State...
BY Sonia Lenegan
An unhappy Court of Appeal has warned against the “the type of informal case expansion that was deprecated by this Court in R (Talpada) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 841” and reminded litigants of the need to make formal applications when wanting to amend...
BY Sonia Lenegan
The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision of the Upper Tribunal to allow the Home Secretary’s appeal against a First-tier Tribunal decision allowing the appeal of a Vietnamese national on humanitarian protection grounds. The court held that the First-tier Tribunal had not given sufficient reasons for finding the appellant...