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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.

Certificates of Approval

Just a quick post to highlight the fact that charges are no longer made by the Home Office for Certificate of Approval applications. The other

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No PO

There was an interesting article in The Telegraph last Saturday about immigration appeal hearings that go ahead with no Home Office Presenting Officer (HOPO or

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Steve Cohen

I was very sad to hear that Steve Cohen has died. Some of the obituaries that have been published so far can be found here:

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Shifting goal posts

The Home Office do like to shift the goal posts. Sometimes this is because they lost another legal case and want to get around it,

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Mind your language

The flunky that writes the Home Office press releases really needs to tone it down and get a grip. One of the latest batches of

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The Truth

I’ve come across some interesting articles on ‘credibility’ through the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog. This is an excellent blog which records various publications on

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In an unusual example of the Court of Appeal being less liberal than the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, the AIT’s rather good decision in YS and YY (Paragraph 352D – British national sponsor former refugee) Ethiopia [2008] UKAIT 00093 was overturned by the Court of Appeal in DL (DRC) v...

6th May 2009
BY Free Movement

This Hello! style headline is perhaps the clearest sign yet that the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal will be abolished and amalgamated into the unified tribunal. The Home Office planning documents now state that the AIT will be scrapped, the AIT stakeholder meetings keep getting postponed and now the President of...

23rd April 2009
BY Free Movement

Just a quick post to highlight the fact that charges are no longer made by the Home Office for Certificate of Approval applications. The other old requirements to get Certificates of Approval still apply and are covered in an old post on this blog. This is relatively old news as...

22nd April 2009
BY Free Movement

There was an interesting article in The Telegraph last Saturday about immigration appeal hearings that go ahead with no Home Office Presenting Officer (HOPO or PO) present to defend the Home Office or Entry Clearance Officer position. I’m not quite sure from where the headline came, though, as there are...

21st April 2009
BY Free Movement

Someone brought this job advert to my attention. It’s been fun writing this blog and representing immigrants and asylum seekers, but duty calls. You have to be part of it to change it, as Steve Cohen undoubtedly would not have said. I’m confident I’ll get the job and very much...

20th April 2009
BY Free Movement

I was very sad to hear that Steve Cohen has died. Some of the obituaries that have been published so far can be found here: Indymedia London Red Pepper Institute of Race Relations Steve Cohen was one of the legendary giants of immigration law. I never met him nor did...

17th April 2009
BY Free Movement

The Home Office do like to shift the goal posts. Sometimes this is because they lost another legal case and want to get around it, sometimes it appears to be for no reason at all and sometimes, just sometimes, it seems to be for clearly explained and understandable policy reasons....

14th April 2009
BY Free Movement

The flunky that writes the Home Office press releases really needs to tone it down and get a grip. One of the latest batches of press releases is entitled ‘Tough new rules target bogus colleges and education cheats‘. The words ‘bogus’ and ‘cheats’ are very strong indeed. Yet there is...

31st March 2009
BY Free Movement

A new Operational Guidance Note for Zimbabwe has been published by the Home Office. These OGNs are basically central guidance to asylum decision-makers in the Home Office. They contain the Home Office policy on what categories of person from different countries might qualify for asylum. The new Zimbabwe OGN is...

24th March 2009
BY Free Movement

I’ve come across some interesting articles on ‘credibility’ through the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog. This is an excellent blog which records various publications on all sorts of interesting subjects and effectively catalogues them, making future access possible. Links often appear on Free Movement in the bottom left hand feed...

24th March 2009
BY Free Movement
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