Welcome to the June 2018 edition of the Free Movement immigration update podcast. I start this month with a whistle-stop tour of some of the latest changes to the Immigration Rules before highlighting a couple of procedural changes, including the end of special deadlines for the Home Office in judicial review cases. Then to Brexit, as the government published something approaching a plan on citizens’ rights, and then to some judgments around children and families. I then note some case law on trafficking, deportation and asylum before ending on a note of alarm on immigration bail accommodation. This month we published a lot of new or updated explainers on many of these topics, which I won’t attempt to summarise in the podcast but will flag up as we go through.

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The main content of the downloadable 25-minute audio podcast follows the (non chronological) order of content below:

Immigration Rules

New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC1154

Procedure

Tribunal belatedly ends Home Office exemption from judicial review time “rules”

Immigration tribunal Practice Statements re-issued almost unchanged

Leave to remain application date: how to calculate it and why it is important

Brexit

Settled status scheme slowly taking shape as ministers reveal new details

How to apply for “settled status” for EU citizens (updated)

Briefing: What are the barriers to British citizenship for EU nationals?

Families

Same-sex spouses should benefit from free movement rights, says CJEU

Residence rights for divorced non-EU citizens improve as Home Secretary concedes appeal

Tribunal decides on Immigration Rules for overseas adoptions, rescues “feral” child

How to apply for a visa as the parent of a child in the UK

Trafficking

Court of Appeal explains protection duty after Home Office loses trafficked child

Guidance on trafficking cases in absence of a Conclusive Grounds decision

Deportation

Tribunal contradicts itself on meaning of “foreign criminal”

“Lawfully resident” in deportation exceptions includes residence after leave invalidated by deportation decision

Asylum

Refugee status not lost because part of home country is now safe

Opening a window into the soul: how to prepare asylum claims based on religion

Immigration bail

Migrants detained indefinitely or made homeless by new immigration bail system

Long delays in Home Office provision of immigration bail accommodation are lawful