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HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a report following an unannounced inspection of the Home Office’s short-term holding facilities in immigration reporting centres in October last year. Concerningly, right at the outset of the report the Chief Inspector notes that the use and average length of detention in these...
BY Sonia Lenegan
The Senior President of Tribunals has published his annual report for 2025. The section on the Upper Tribunal (IAC) notes that it “appears very likely” that workloads in the Upper Tribunal “will increase significantly” because of the increase in the number of appeals in the First-tier Tribunal “arising from government...
BY Sonia Lenegan
The case concerns a settlement application made on behalf of a child under paragraph 297 of Part 8 which was instead granted as limited leave under Appendix FM because although her father was a British citizen resident in the UK, her mother only had limited leave. The Court of Appeal...
BY Alex Piletska
A claimant has been refused permission for judicial review to challenge the refusal of his naturalisation application on good character grounds. The decision followed an oral permission hearing and the case is R (BSD) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 3333 (Admin). BSD arrived in the...
BY Sonia Lenegan
In this briefing we will take a look at what is really going on with the main features of the contemporary asylum system: arrivals, the backlog, detention, removal and resettlement. The information is drawn mainly from the quarterly immigration statistics and transparency data for the year ended September 2025, the...