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The Free Movement blog was founded in 2007 by Colin Yeo, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers specialising in immigration law. The blog provides updates and commentary on immigration and asylum law by a variety of authors.

Hopeless helpline

This bit of BBC research will come as no surprise to anyone who has attempted to use a UKBA helpline. The waiting time for a

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Clean sweep

A sign of things to come: Following the UK general election on 6 May 2010, the UK Border Agency website has undergone some changes. All

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New Government

[UPDATE: The ‘Lib’ ‘Dems’ have agreed to a cap on non-EU immigration as part of the coalition deal. So, if too many people bring spouses

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A poor immigration history

Today seems an auspicious day to examine Labour’s recent immigration history. At first glance it may appear that Labour has been generous on immigration policy

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Driven From Home

I have received the following email and I’m happy to bring it to the attention of readers: I am writing to alert you the recent

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Stats

I’m up late this evening with plenty more work still do to, and like many bloggers (er, all of us, I suspect) will check my blog

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Removals to war zones

The Court of Appeal has again revisited the vexed question of removals to war torn countries like Somalia in the major new case of HH

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This bit of BBC research will come as no surprise to anyone who has attempted to use a UKBA helpline. The waiting time for a phone call to the UK Border Agency is almost seven minutes and then 70% of calls are abandoned or go unanswered. It is all but...

13th May 2010
BY Free Movement

A sign of things to come: Following the UK general election on 6 May 2010, the UK Border Agency website has undergone some changes. All news stories published before April 2010 have been removed from this website, as has information about our strategies and aims under the previous government. This...

13th May 2010
BY Free Movement

Supreme Court press release here and judgment here. The reasoning is remarkably short: the Court simply disagrees with Laws LJ on the ordinary and natural meaning of the words ‘has been granted asylum’.

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12th May 2010
BY Free Movement

[UPDATE: The ‘Lib’ ‘Dems’ have agreed to a cap on non-EU immigration as part of the coalition deal. So, if too many people bring spouses and children in, the rest will have to wait until next year, and multi-national businesses will not be able to transfer employees to the UK?...

11th May 2010
BY Free Movement

Quick alert courtesy of the Supreme Court website. Judgment in ZN (Afghanistan) is at last to be handed down tomorrow, and the Court is today starting a three day hearing of appeals against HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) [2009] EWCA Civ 172, on the issue of homosexuality and refugee status....

10th May 2010
BY Free Movement

Today seems an auspicious day to examine Labour’s recent immigration history. At first glance it may appear that Labour has been generous on immigration policy in recent times. In some respects this is right. Immigration has certainly increased since 1997. As Don Flynn wrote so perceptively in 2002 in Tough...

6th May 2010
BY Free Movement

I have received the following email and I’m happy to bring it to the attention of readers: I am writing to alert you the recent publication of Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants by David Hollenbach, SJ, a book that may be of interest to readers of...

30th April 2010
BY Free Movement

I’m up late this evening with plenty more work still do to, and like many bloggers (er, all of us, I suspect) will check my blog stats in idle moments. It’s all part of the narcissistic nature of the beast. An old colleague once teased me about reaching the half...

30th April 2010
BY Free Movement

UKBA got away with an appeal against a finding of misfeasance in public office in the new case of Muuse v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 453, but lost on the award of exemplary damages. In the course of judgment Lord Justice Thomas held that...

28th April 2010
BY Free Movement

The Court of Appeal has again revisited the vexed question of removals to war torn countries like Somalia in the major new case of HH (Somalia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 426. The issues at stake have also been the subject of a major...

27th April 2010
BY Free Movement
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