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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The new Employment Rights Bill has been published. It is a substantial document: it weighs in at 158 pages. There are several aspects of the
New figures published today show the asylum appeals backlog had risen to 33,227 cases at the end of June 2024, under the last government. In
Making a mistake on an immigration application form can be disastrous. If the mistake is interpreted by officials as an attempt to mislead or deceive,
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...
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...
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...
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...
The new Employment Rights Bill has been published. It is a substantial document: it weighs in at 158 pages. There are several aspects of the Bill relevant to immigration issues. Before I go any further, the context to this legislation includes gross and widespread exploitation of migrant workers in sectors...
New figures published today show the asylum appeals backlog had risen to 33,227 cases at the end of June 2024, under the last government. In the period April to June 2024, the immigration tribunal received 9,318 asylum appeals and disposed of 3,598 asylum appeals. These figures look bad as they...
Making a mistake on an immigration application form can be disastrous. If the mistake is interpreted by officials as an attempt to mislead or deceive, the application may be refused and can also lead to a ten-year ban on re-entry to the UK. Following a Court of Appeal decision that...
