Author: Djamilla Hitchins

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Djamilla Hitchins

Djamilla Hitchins is a solicitor and the Statelessness Project Supervisor at Asylum Aid.

Asylum Aid’s legal challenge to the lawfulness of the statelessness family reunion rules has been comprehensively upheld. The judgement was handed down by the High Court on 14 February and has not been appealed. The case is Asylum Aid v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 316...

28th April 2025
BY Djamilla Hitchins

Appendix Statelessness replaced Part 14 of the immigration rules in January 2024. It provides a pathway for stateless people to obtain leave to remain in the UK. The application is free of charge and leads to settlement after five years. The Home Office guidance on statelessness “Permission to stay as...

22nd January 2025
BY Nath Gbikpi

In January 2024 the immigration rules were changed and statelessness family reunion was brought into Appendix FM. The new rules make no special provision at all for the families of stateless people and treat them in the same way as any family member of any other sponsor applying under Appendix...

20th January 2025
BY Djamilla Hitchins
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