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Colin Yeo

Immigration and asylum barrister, blogger, writer and consultant at Garden Court Chambers in London and founder of the Free Movement immigration law website.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg handed down judgment in two separate cases in December addressing the subject of family life between adult family members outside the “core” nuclear family of spouses, partners, parents and minor children. The court confirms that “additional elements of dependence, involving more than...

7th January 2025
BY Colin Yeo

What should happen where young children are carried in a small boat to the United Kingdom and thereby separated from their parents in France? Should the children be returned to France to be reunited with their parents there? Or should the parents be admitted to the United Kingdom to be reunited...

6th January 2025
BY Colin Yeo

Every year I put together a round up of what’s been going on in the immigration world and here on Free Movement over the last year. In last year’s review I predicted that the government would bring the Illegal Migration Act into force and that as a result “the backlog...

2nd January 2025
BY Colin Yeo

We are running a two week sale on Free Movement annual and small group memberships for new and lapsed members from 1 to 14 January 2025. The deal is half price for the first year and then membership automatically renews at full price unless cancelled in the meantime. Small groups...

1st January 2025
BY Colin Yeo

We’ll be increasing the prices of our webinars and workshops from 2 January 2025 to account for inflation. It’s not going to be a massive increase but we’ve set up as many of the courses as we can now to allow readers to book now to avoid the price hike...

23rd December 2024
BY Colin Yeo

After the ban on grants of leave to those in the inadmissibility process was lifted following the change in government earlier this year, there has finally started to be some progress on deciding asylum claims. However early signs are that that the emphasis on fast decision making is coming at...

19th December 2024
BY Colin Yeo

We are looking to recruit one or more consultant trainers to deliver our introductory and advanced four-week immigration and asylum law courses. We started delivering these in 2023 and they have proven to be very popular. Each one has sold out so far, in fact, so we’re planning to run...

18th December 2024
BY Colin Yeo

The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner, or OISC as we all call it, is to be abolished in the new year. It will be replaced by a new-look Immigration Advice Authority, or IAA. Not to be confused with the Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme (IAAS) run by the Law...

5th December 2024
BY Colin Yeo

They grow up so fast. As we will see, Paddington himself has almost certainly reached the age of ursine majority, whatever that might be. When I took my children to see the first Paddington film in 2014, they were aged just two and a half and four. Too young then...

11th November 2024
BY Colin Yeo

The Law Society is launching its latest round of reaccreditations for senior caseworkers and supervising senior caseworkers in immigration law. Here we take a look at what we know and do not know about the scheme and then turn to how we can help you at Free Movement. Before we...

24th October 2024
BY Colin Yeo
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