The mantra of “safe and legal routes” is regularly repeated by the government when justifying increasingly draconian legislation in an attempt to prevent refugees from
Panicking about a Christmas present for the human rights lawyer in your life? Landmark Chambers have you covered with the excellent “The Law and Practice
This is one of those real train wrecks from the Home Office, where you may want to make yourself a large cup of coffee and
The Migration Advisory Committee is clearing its desk ahead of the holiday break, publishing not one but two reports today. The first is the review
The High Court has ordered the Home Secretary to grant indefinite leave to remain to a man who has held discretionary leave to remain for
In July to September this year, the number of appeals received by the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) increased by 123%, to 30,000, compared
Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 1491 has just been published. It is the seventh (!!) statement of changes we have had this
What a month. Sonia kicked off the podcast with a run through of the major policy proposals which came out in November, including the changes
The latest of the – apparently now annual – immigration and asylum Bills has completed its journey through parliament, as the Border Security, Asylum and
It appears that the Home Office has started writing out to Syrian refugees who have pending settlement protection (SET(P)) applications. I know this is causing
The mantra of “safe and legal routes” is regularly repeated by the government when justifying increasingly draconian legislation in an attempt to prevent refugees from travelling to the UK under their own steam. The argument is that refugees should use these safe and legal routes instead of arriving in small...
Panicking about a Christmas present for the human rights lawyer in your life? Landmark Chambers have you covered with the excellent “The Law and Practice of Human Rights”. This is the first (presumably of many) edition and is a huge achievement that was turned around in an impressively quick period...
This is one of those real train wrecks from the Home Office, where you may want to make yourself a large cup of coffee and read through the whole judgment. It features a person being wrongly told by the Home Office to make a No Time Limit application, followed by...
The Migration Advisory Committee is clearing its desk ahead of the holiday break, publishing not one but two reports today. The first is the review of the salary requirements for work visas, where the committee has recommended keeping the general threshold at £41,700 and that a single new entrant rate...
The High Court has ordered the Home Secretary to grant indefinite leave to remain to a man who has held discretionary leave to remain for 15 years, first granted under the pre-July 2012 policy. The Home Secretary had tried to rely on a conviction that pre-dated the first grant of...
In July to September this year, the number of appeals received by the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) increased by 123%, to 30,000, compared to the same period last year. Disposals (the number of concluded appeals) increased by 50% to 15,000 and the tribunal’s total open caseload increased by...
Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 1491 has just been published. It is the seventh (!!) statement of changes we have had this year. It is thankfully a short one. Visit visa requirement for Nauru: 3pm today Effective 3pm today, nationals of Nauru will no longer be able...
What a month. Sonia kicked off the podcast with a run through of the major policy proposals which came out in November, including the changes to refugee settlement periods and a look at the earned settlement proposals (though not in too much detail as she is doing a full webinar...
The latest of the – apparently now annual – immigration and asylum Bills has completed its journey through parliament, as the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 received Royal Assent yesterday. You should read Colin’s write up of the Bill as first published here for an overview of the...
It appears that the Home Office has started writing out to Syrian refugees who have pending settlement protection (SET(P)) applications. I know this is causing a lot of fear and worry and so I have tried to explain what is happening and give a bit of guidance on what to...
