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Bail for Immigration Detainees has published their latest report looking at access to legal advice for people in immigration detention and has found that levels of representation are the lowest they have been since the charity started their monitoring fifteen years ago. The report found the following: 64% of participant...
BY Sonia Lenegan
A person refused a skilled worker visa because they were on immigration bail at the time of their application has lost their challenge in the Court of Appeal. The case is R (Kaur & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 1474. Background The appellant...
BY Sonia Lenegan
Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! As if last Monday’s proposals were not bad enough, on Thursday the Home Secretary also published the consultation on “earned settlement”. Describing the sky as yellow does not make it so. And slapping the word “fairer” onto the worst immigration policy proposals the UK has seen...
BY Sonia Lenegan
If the Home Office seeks to deport a foreign criminal and certifies their human rights claim, but that foreign criminal successfully challenges the decision to deport (and to certify), what is the immigration status of the foreign criminal afterwards? The Upper Tribunal gives guidance on this question in MM, R...
BY Nick Nason
There are a number of quirks to the process of becoming an accredited immigration adviser under the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA). In this post we clarify who is required to apply for Immigration Advice Authority accreditation, who is exempt, and – for those who must apply – who is not...