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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In the absence of a reported decision on the matter (yet), we are writing to set out our recent experience and success in challenging Home Office refusals of leave to recognised victims of trafficking, in the hope that this will help others with similar cases. Shortly before what was set...
BY Freya Wainstein
Community Lawyer (Immigration) We are recruiting an immigration lawyer to take up the exciting new role of Community Lawyer within ATLEU. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering ATLEU’s community lawyering strategy to bring about meaningful change with and for survivors of human trafficking and exploitation. The...
BY Free Movement
Having been given a very hard time of it in the Court of Appeal, the Home Secretary has finally been vindicated in her series of appeals concerning the process for depriving people of their British citizenship. The Supreme Court has held that procedural fairness can be achieved through a statutory...
BY Sonia Lenegan
Unless and until a person has been notified that a decision has been made to make a deportation order against them, they are not liable to removal for the purpose of section 259 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. The importance of that point in this case was that it...
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
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...