BY Sonia Lenegan
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My name is Colin Yeo and I am a barrister, writer, campaigner and consultant specialising in immigration law. I founded Free Movement in 2007.
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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...
BY Sonia Lenegan
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...
BY Sonia Lenegan
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...
BY Sonia Lenegan
The immigration skills charge is an additional fee payable by a sponsoring employer when a certificate of sponsorship is issued prior to a worker beginning their employment. The sponsor is required to pay the immigration skills charge and cannot pass liability onto the sponsored worker. Doing so could risk revocation...
BY Imogen Scoular
Training Manager Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) Location: Hybrid. Primarily remote with one weekly hub day in London. Working arrangements may change. Salary: £33,000-£35,00 Hours: 35 hours/week Contract: permanent Closing date: 3 January 2026 ILPA is a charity and professional membership body working to improve immigration, asylum and nationality law....
BY Free Movement
Sonia Lenegan has decided to move on as Editor of Free Movement with effect from 28 January 2026. Sonia has done an incredible job in her time here. She has published or republished an article every single day other than holidays, many of which she has written herself, often at...