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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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The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has disclosed some further details on the new immigration and asylum appeal body. The plans are contained in a letter to the chair of the Justice Committee. Some further hints at the process behind the scenes separately emerged in live questions to Sarah Sackman, Minister...
BY Colin Yeo
The Upper Tribunal has heard a challenge by a cohort of Syrian nationals regarding the certification of their asylum claims on the basis that they could be returned to a safe third country, in this case Bulgaria. It is believed that this case is the first of its kind since...
BY Jamie Bell
That’s officially a wrap on 2025, as Sonia and Barry run through December’s various happenings, including the final statement of changes for the year and our latest resources on the earned settlement proposals. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force and the latest tribunal statistics show...
BY Sonia Lenegan
In the first substantive judgment concerning the use of “public order disqualification” powers in trafficking cases under s.63 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, the High Court has found that the Home Secretary’s general approach has been unlawful to date and requires significant revision. The case is R (ABW)...
BY John Crowley
In Majera v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 1597, the Court of Appeal considered the right approach to the ‘very compelling circumstances’ test in deportation cases where the foreign criminal claims to have been rehabilitated. This is a useful reminder of the limited weight that...