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Supreme Court dismisses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship by woman in Syria
Challenge to refusal of visitor visa dismissed by Court of Appeal
Court of Appeal dismisses Vietnamese humanitarian protection appeal
Fresh claim rejection successfully challenged in Upper Tribunal
‘Life in Germany is not significantly different from life in the UK’: EU nationals and the ‘insurmountable obstacles’ test

Supreme Court

Supreme Court dismisses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship by woman in Syria

Supreme Court adopts “nuanced” approach in deprivation of citizenship appeal

Supreme Court says that statutory duty regarding children does not apply to the First-tier Tribunal

Supreme Court finds no human right to legal status if it’s your own fault you can’t be removed

Reflections on the Supreme Court’s Rwanda judgment

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Court of Appeal

Challenge to refusal of visitor visa dismissed by Court of Appeal

Court of Appeal dismisses Vietnamese humanitarian protection appeal

‘Life in Germany is not significantly different from life in the UK’: EU nationals and the ‘insurmountable obstacles’ test

Court of Appeal dismisses Albanian woman’s asylum claim

Court of Appeal rejects student’s attempt to switch into skilled worker route

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Upper Tribunal

Fresh claim rejection successfully challenged in Upper Tribunal

Successful challenge to cancellation of skilled worker leave after Home Office errors

Home Office concede that Dutch man was wrongly excluded from UK in case of mistaken identity

Home Office decision to “correct” grant of indefinite leave made in error held to be lawful

No damages for failure to grant leave to survivor of trafficking

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High Court

Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules

Refugee succeeds in High Court challenge to negative trafficking decision

Home Office guidance on discretionary indefinite leave for children held to be unlawful

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European Court of Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights finds strong evidence that Greece engaged in unlawful pushbacks to Turkey

Two recent Strasbourg cases on family life between adults

States cannot refuse asylum claims by LGBTQI+ people based on the ‘discretion test’ alone

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Court of Justice of the European Union

CJEU: designation of a third country as a safe country of origin must cover its entire territory

CJEU: discriminatory measures faced by women under the Taliban regime constitute acts of persecution

CJEU: Women who are victims of gender-based violence can qualify for refugee status

Court of Justice confirms British citizens lost their EU citizenship because of Brexit

Asylum in the European Courts: a case roundup

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Cases, Nationality

Supreme Court dismisses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship by woman in Syria

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal, which had agreed with the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision to dismiss an

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21st May 2025

BY Sonia Lenegan

Cases, Visit visa

Challenge to refusal of visitor visa dismissed by Court of Appeal

An unhappy Court of Appeal has warned against the “the type of informal case expansion that was deprecated by this Court in R (Talpada) v Secretary

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20th May 2025

BY Sonia Lenegan

Asylum, Cases

Court of Appeal dismisses Vietnamese humanitarian protection appeal

The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision of the Upper Tribunal to allow the Home Secretary’s appeal against a First-tier Tribunal decision allowing the

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19th May 2025

BY Sonia Lenegan

Asylum, Cases

Fresh claim rejection successfully challenged in Upper Tribunal

The Home Secretary has had an absolute howler in the Upper Tribunal, it is one of those decisions that is worth a read in full

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8th May 2025

BY Sonia Lenegan

Cases, Deportation, EU Free Movement

‘Life in Germany is not significantly different from life in the UK’: EU nationals and the ‘insurmountable obstacles’ test

The Court of Appeal has considered in Ackom v SSHD [2025] EWCA Civ 537 an appeal by a German national against deportation. The key point

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7th May 2025

BY Nick Nason

Asylum, Cases

Court of Appeal dismisses Albanian woman’s asylum claim

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by an Albanian women in a protection claim where she initially succeeded in the First-tier Tribunal but

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2nd May 2025

BY Sonia Lenegan

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