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Katherine Soroya

Katherine Soroya is a Senior Immigration Caseworker at Turpin & Miller, an Oxford-based specialist immigration firm. Katherine undertakes a wide range of Legal Aid immigration work and has a particular interest in complex trafficking matters.

Freedom of information request shows increase in multiple asylum interview invites for applicants

A recent response to a Freedom of Information request shows that there has been a sharp increase in the number of people being invited to more than one substantive asylum […]

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23rd July 2024
BY Katherine Soroya

The Home Office’s updated guidance on ‘voluntary departures’ including to Rwanda

The Home Office has updated its guidance on voluntary returns, now re-named voluntary departures which now includes the possibility of sending those who agree to a safe third country. Although […]

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21st March 2024
BY Katherine Soroya

How is the Home Office prioritising asylum claims?

The Home Office has explained in newly published guidance ‘Asylum decision-making prioritisation‘ how they will decide the order for decision making of asylum claims. This provides some much-needed clarity to […]

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1st November 2023
BY Katherine Soroya

What next for evacuated Sudanese nationals?

Following the outbreak of the conflict in Sudan earlier this year the UK government evacuated thousands of people. This included a number of Sudanese nationals, some of whom were single […]

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23rd August 2023
BY Katherine Soroya

New country guidance on Democratic Republic of the Congo

On 22nd May 2023 the Upper Tribunal published a new country guidance on case on Democratic Republic of Congo, PO (DRC – Post 2018 elections) (CG) [2023] UKUT 00117. PO […]

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2nd June 2023
BY Katherine Soroya

New policy: temporary permission to stay for victims of human trafficking

The Home Office’s new policy temporary permission to stay for victims of trafficking and slavery was published on 30 January 2023. It accompanies the new appendix to the Immigration Rules […]

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7th February 2023
BY Katherine Soroya

A guide to making fresh claims

Further submissions or a ‘fresh claim’ is a process for submitting an asylum (or human rights) application where there has been a previous failed claim and all appeal rights have […]

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6th December 2022
BY Katherine Soroya

Briefing: Inadmissibility in asylum claims after the Nationality and Borders Act 2022

The government’s new rules on inadmissibility in asylum claims have come into force and now apply to asylum claims made on or after 28 June 2022. These rules set out […]

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5th September 2022
BY Katherine Soroya

How does the Home Office assess sexual identity in asylum claims?

People claiming asylum based on their sexual orientation, including homosexuality and bisexuality, may form part of a “particular social group” which qualifies for protection under the Refugee Convention. In deciding […]

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22nd October 2021
BY Katherine Soroya

Briefing: the Nationality and Borders Bill, Part 4 (modern slavery)

Part 4 of the Nationality and Borders Bill addresses modern slavery and human trafficking. The Home Office’s goals for reform in this area are, as ever, focused on criminality. The […]

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19th July 2021
BY Katherine Soroya
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