The latest case on fairness and the Secretary of State’s duty within the Points-Based Syst ...

The BBC's Inside Out Yorkshire programme ran a  story tonight on sham marriages, trailed i ...

A plethora of immigration tweaks were announced yesterday, mainly of a technical natur ...

In D v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWCA Civ 39 (31 January 2012) the Court ...

A new decision from the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribu ...

Just a quick one to flag up a guest post I've written for the 1 Crown Office Row UK Human ...

Several important new cases have just emerged on the subject of marriage and the immigrati ...

Free Movement entirely retracts the article that was previously published here regarding t ...

Just a quick alert that Nicola Braganza of Tooks Chambers and Colin Yeo of Renaissance Cha ...

In parallel announcements the UK Border Agency has said that language requirements for Tie ...

The latest Country Guidance case on Zimbabwe finds, in essence, that despite vociferous an ...

Got a Kindle for Christmas? Wondering what to do with it now you've read the first couple ...

On 15th November 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union ('the CJEU') handed down ...

The Government has finally gotten around to amending the Immigration Rules to make the ...

Lord Justice Ward is at it again: This is another of those frustrating appeals which char ...

Today's report by the Children's Commissioner, Landing in Dover, exposes gross double stan ...

A few reported determinations from late last year have so far escaped comment here. There' ...

In the case of NS v UK (C-411/10) (see here for FM's earlier alerter post), the Court of ...

There was some coverage in the right wing press yesterday about a new Migration Watch 'rep ...

The Upper Tribunal in T (s.55 BCIA 2009 – entry clearance) Jamaica UKUT 00483 (IAC) has d ...

Regular visitors to the website will have noticed some changes over the Christmas period ...

Despite having already signed off for Christmas, I've been sitting waiting all morning to ...

Following on from last year's seasonal leak, Free Movement can exclusively reveal a new se ...

The Upper Tribunal haven't hung around in turning their attention to the recent case of ...

The Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency, John Vine, has published a global review of ...

The Court of Appeal last week handed down a very interesting judgment on the need for 'pro ...

What is the psychological effect upon employers of the increasing stringency of their obli ...

In a substantial judgment running to 149 paragraphs Mr Justice Beatson sitting in the High ...

As previously highlighted on this blog, fees are to be introduced for immigration appeals. ...

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has addressed risk to Sri Lankan Tamils facing enfo ...

EDIT 14/12/11: Treasury Solicitor letter to High Court regarding charter flight can be fou ...

The blog has been experiencing a few problems over the last few days, for which I apologis ...

After FM questioned his will to live following this analysis of the judgment in Sapkota v ...

There are two recent cases to cover on this subject. The first is AJ (India) v Secretary o ...

Looking at a few recent cases, there seems to be a trend emerging. In the face of over-com ...

The controversial Country Guideline case of HM and Others (Article 15(c)) Iraq CG UKUT 33 ...

Invalid immigration applications cause serious difficulties. The problem is that the UK ...

In a dense judgment that more than once has caused me to question my will to live the Cour ...

I have more or less finished building the new website and plan to switch over shortly. B ...

The Hegelian dialectic is sometimes expressed as thesis followed by anti-thesis followed ...

An interesting case on the use of electronic means (telephone, video link, Skype, Morse, t ...

The recent Court of Appeal decision in SH (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home ...

Just a quick one to flag up that HJT Training is running a series of skills workshops with ...

The Government's plan massively to increase the minimum income threshold required to spons ...

A new case from the High Court offers an interpretation of Pankina that might give hope to ...

There will be some changes coming on Free Movement. This has been absorbing quite a lot ...

UPDATE: correct link added for training notes Omotunde (best interests - Zambrano applied ...

My attention was drawn to this article in The Observer of 6 November 2011. It seems that ...

As well as formally lowering the spouse visa age back to 18 through a formal change to t ...

My old pupil master, Ian Lewis, helpfully reminded me the other day that the deadline fo ...

UPDATE: see later post for information on applying for a review if your case has already ...

Back on 6 April 2011 the UK Border Agency made a change to the settlement rules for work p ...

Perhaps not breaking news for some of you but I suspect not everyone has come across the r ...

NA (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWCA Civ 1172 This case concern ...

Regular readers will know that Free Movement practises from Renaissance Chambers, as do th ...

In a judgment handed down yesterday HH Judge Anthony Thornton QC has given some very int ...

The Upper Tribunal has reported a decision on the effect of the new section 85A of the N ...

The UK Border Agency has released the slightly more detailed guidance on Zambrano-based ap ...

UPDATE: SEE LATEST POST. Following a hell of a lot of confused, confusing and anguished ...

A Strategic Legal Fund for Refugee Children and Young People has been set up to fund strat ...

Theresa May and David Cameron have promised to crack down on the perversion of human rig ...

UPDATE: SEE LATEST POST. In a judgment just handed down the Supreme Court has by a majo ...

In the case of R (on the application of Sino) v Secretary of State for the Home Department ...

Prime Minister David Cameron has made yet another keynote speech on immigration. He seems ...

I have so far refrained from any mention of cats, although I came THIS close to asking in ...

I've previously posted up the publicly available UKBA guidance on Zambrano, but a commente ...

The case of R (on the Application of Atapattu) v The Secretary of State for the Home Depar ...

After what felt like something of a hiatus early in the year, the tribunal has been chur ...

I finished work on the 10th edition of the HJT Immigration Manual just before going on hol ...

Damian Green's speech on immigration on 15 September 2011 revealed various proposals which ...

The first of my catch-up posts comes courtesy of the indefatigable Mr T - many thanks, Mr ...

Passing through immigration control on my return to the UK yesterday, my wife had to restr ...

I'm off on holiday and am delighted to say that I won't be back for three weeks. I'd hoped ...

I'm a bit behind on tribunal determination updates, but here's the latest batch of diktats ...

The Home Office have published a new piece of research they commissioned, entitled Marriag ...

Free Movement has just hit one MILLION, er, hits. As with Dr Evil, that isn't actually a l ...

The Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) have substantially re-vamped their ...

I have seen many country of origin information (COI) reports in my time, and I am generall ...

In his speech on Monday addressing the long term causes behind the recent looting, David C ...

Pierce Glynn and Stephen Knaffler QC have broadened the path (pun intended*) with SL and W ...

Mark Symes has posted an article over at the HJT Immigration Blog on a new case from the C ...

R (on the application of Elayathamby) v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWHC 2 ...

The news coverage over the weekend reporting on the very recent deaths of three men in de ...

It turns out that the muppets* at the Ministry of Justice have laid regulations that at ...

It is now possible to claim CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points through the b ...

I have started to think about the Herculean (perhaps Sisyphean a better analogy? - ed.) ta ...

The Chief Inspector of UKBA, John Vine, two weeks ago released a new report on the use o ...

The Court of Appeal has given judgment in an extremely important new case on costs, R (on ...

The UK Border Agency can be very generous and understanding when it wants to be. For some ...

The Exceptional Talent route attracted a lot of attention and comment when it was announce ...

Another series of edictsreported cases has been handed down by the Upper Tribunal. Offic ...

Amnesty International have put together a training video for potential recruits to the pri ...

The Government yesterday launched another consultation on restricting immigration, this ...

Free Movement is planning to launch a scheme to allow regular readers who are barristers, ...

The minister with responsibility for legal aid, Jonathan Djanogly MP, has made a statement ...

Some or all of the staff at the IAS Bristol office have put together a press release and m ...

Following the terrible news about the Immigration Advisory Service going into administrati ...

Rumours have been circulating over the weekend but the Legal Services Commission has now ...

Amnesty International has launched a campaign to change the way that the UK Border Agency ...

HM Inspectorate of Prisons yesterday published two reports based on unannounced inspection ...

Am slightly behind the drag curve but I could not let pass that the chain of stores Lush C ...

The previously mentioned Migration Museum Project '100 Images of Migration' competition ...

The legal luggage carousel of the tribunal's reporting committee has deposited a large b ...

Last week, while I was away, the Supreme Court held that the Upper Tribunal can be judic ...

The cases of Sufi and Elmi v UK (Applications nos. 8319/07 and 11449/07) have been allow ...

BAILII, the invaluable resource which provides much of the material for this blog, is unde ...

Further to Shivani's last post on this, the numbers facing removal on the charter flight t ...

An investigation is required as a matter of extreme urgency into an accepted breach of con ...

Tune in to Supreme Court Live! on the web for live coverage provided by Sky News of th ...

Last weekend I finally read the Refugee Council report Lives in the Balance: The quality o ...

Not much to report on this one, just that I tried a Freedom of Information request on the ...

In an earlier post I highlighted the new Ministerial Authorisation permitting race discrim ...

The Supreme Court yesterday handed down judgment in the case of Shepherd Masimba Kambadz ...

Quick plug for a new publication from the Immigration Law Practitioners Association, to ...

My post on Friday about the Amos case may have been a little o'er hasty. The excellent Man ...

Quick heads up for an interesting post by Mark Symes on the HJT Training blog. In the re ...

I'm full of good news today! The rumours were true and section 19 of the UK Borders Act 20 ...

It looks like the 14 year rule may be for the chop. See this question and answer from Prim ...

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that fees will be charged for lodging appeals in the ...

I'm currently working on materials for a general immigration update course for HJT Trainin ...

Ever since the mysterious disappearance of the IAA Gender Guidelines from the old IAA webs ...

On Tuesday I speculated on whether section 19 of the UK Borders Act 2007 might be brought ...

The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (shortly to become Freedom From ...

It looks like family visit appeals may be axed. Again. Those who have been doing this a wh ...

I've been asked to give a mention to the Migration Museum Project and am delighted to do s ...

The hotly anticipated (er, by EC law geeks and the parties mainly) judgment in McCarthy ...

A very good solicitor I know nearly came a cropper on this the other day, so I thought I w ...

The recent scrapping of the old AIT website has rendered my old page of links to procedure ...

Finally one piece of good news to share: the Certificate of Approval (COA) scheme has been ...

Last week was the annual Renaissance Chambers immigration lecture, and I promised to post ...

The full text of the speech (yet to be delivered at the time of writing, which seems rathe ...

The Court of Appeal shows its despair at the immigration tribunal in the case of RM (Zimba ...

In a clear signal of a return to Victorian values of the undeserving poor and salvation th ...

It had escaped my attention that Free Movement was four years old on 7 March 2011. The fir ...

I have had to redraft this post, which had been intended to be a good news story about a p ...

Only this morning I was making extensive use of the websites of both the First Tier and Up ...

A raft of cases has come out in the last week or so, so it is high time for a round up. ...

In the case of Lumba v Secretary of State for the Home Department UKSC 12 the Supreme Cou ...

The Government would like students to come to the UK, pay their overseas tuition fees (and ...

This interesting snippet of information recently came my way and I thought it was worth ...

Permission has been granted to the Secretary of State to appeal to the Supreme Court aga ...

Firstly, I should apologise for getting behind with my updates. I have nominally been on ...

The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case of Zambrano (C- ...

A slightly belated post to highlight another important decision of the Court of Appeal tha ...

The Chief Inspector of UKBA has today published critical reports of the entry clearance ...

The Government has announced a new 'red carpet' approach to immigration for the super rich ...

The long awaited new Country Guidance case on Zimbabwe is finally out: EM and Others (Retu ...

The team behind the iLegal legislation app for iPhones and iPads has been kind enough to p ...

The Home Office has introduced a new way of dealing with the return of families from the U ...

In a judgment just out, Zambrano v ONEm Case C-34/0 the European Court of Justice seems ...

Mr Justice Collins has rejected a claim for damages by an asylum seeker who was kept waiti ...

“You don’t know what you are doing there, you don't know how long you will be there. Somet ...

The Upper Tribunal has finally referred the vexed question of the rights of 'other family ...

The date has finally been announced for transfer of fresh claim judicial reviews into the ...

The advice page on the UK Border Agency website for Libyans in the UK has been updated so ...

There have been a number of interesting announcements by UKBA today, which I will add to t ...

This is a problem that has been addressed previously on the blog: what can be done when a ...

Remarkable: "The UK Border Agency is aware that the visas of some Libyans may expire bef ...

The Home Office have published the results of a survey on the Points Based System (full re ...

This is stomach turning stuff, I'm afraid, and has left me quivering with anger. A new cas ...

An important case from late last year has so far escaped comment here on Free Movement but ...

Quick alerter post, to be amended later: judgment in R (on the application of Daley-Murdoc ...

There have been several quite distraught sounding commenters on my previous piece on the ...

Immigration Minister Damian Green has authorised discrimination by visa officers on the ba ...

After a grand total of 50 votes, 74% of which were in favour of the new look, the new look ...

There are many illegal immigrants who have come forward to the Home Office, made themselve ...

As you may be aware, the deadline for responding within the Legal Aid Proposed Cuts consul ...

As some may have noticed, I've made a few minor changes to the blog in the last few days. ...

I've just been in court doing yet another case where a solicitor has advised a client to d ...

In what to me is a shocking development, we learn through the case of R (on the applicatio ...

The host of the UK Human Rights Blog, 1 Crown Office Row, is a chambers that claims "23 At ...

The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in a major case on the best interests of ...

There have been a few quite interesting tribunal determinations recently, which I have ove ...

In his report late last year on the entry clearance operation based in Abu Dhabi, the ‘h ...

The European Court of Human Rights has just held that it is unlawful to send asylum seek ...

I gave a short presentation this morning to John Vine, the Chief Inspector of UKBA. I thou ...

The routine detention of immigrant children by the last Government was a disgrace. Claimed ...

With New Year Celebrations follow the dreaded New Year Resolutions, well for most of us ...

Happy New Year to you all. May 2011 usher in a new era of sanity in UK immigration law and ...

Although not quite on the scale of Wikileaks, Free Movement can today publish a confidenti ...

Many thanks to David Chirico for showing me this case (who I understand was in turn tipped ...

I'm a bit behind the times at the moment for all sorts of reasons (giving up blog, lots ...

The Court of Appeal has declared unlawful the application of the increased spouse visa age ...

Quick post to flag up a piece over on the HJT Training blog which may be of interest to Fr ...

There have been two big developments in the last week or so: the 'ending' of child deten ...

I thought I'd start putting together a list of the myriad ways in which the Home Office wa ...

I have struggled to write anything that would do justice to the late David Burgess, who di ...

Welcome to the first post on Free Movement not by freemovement! Several of us in the immig ...

A doctor ‘is no longer considered an acceptable professional person’ by the Home Office. T ...

I won a case in the Upper Tribunal the other day that I think is worth sharing. Despite, ...

It is a shame to come back on a sour note, but it is difficult not to be cheerful about th ...

I have decided that I will revive Free Movement in some shape or form in the near future, ...

I have taken the surprisingly easy decision to wind down Free Movement. For reasons that c ...

New Immigration Rules have just been laid in Statement of Changes CM 7944. The main change ...

As recently as 14 September 2010 the Government's position was that it is not enforcing re ...

Practitioners have seen a considerable increase in the number of applications for entry cl ...

UKBA has published a new fact finding report on the situation in Zimbabwe. It is, probably ...

The methods and reports of controversial linguistic analysis company Sprakab, based in Swe ...

The tribunal has held that it is safe to return to Iraq. In HM and Others (Article 15(c)) ...

The Government has confirmed that removals to Greece under the Dublin II Regulation have b ...

UKBA has published a new policy on dealing with children, specifically asylum applications ...

Substantial rises are set for most immigration fees on 1 October 2010, on the basis of the ...

It has come to my attention that Google Ads sometimes (or possibly always) show on Free Mo ...

The tragic demise of Refugee and Migrant Justice, formerly known as the Refugee Legal Cent ...

The tribunal has allowed two appeals on the basis that Pankina does not only apply to th ...

I am back from my very pleasant holidays and thought I would kick off what feels like a ne ...

UKBA has laid Statement of Changes CM7929 to give effect (or, at least, limited effect) to ...

Following Pankina, UKBA laid Statement of Changes HC 382, different parts of which came in ...

I still use this blog as my own personal note book of developments I might well want to lo ...

Anyone with recent experience of applying for settlement may wish to help UKBA by completi ...

Yet more good news, this time for children and their parents. In LD (Article 8 best intere ...

Some tremendously good news for many refugees: in the new case of FH (Post-flight spouses) ...

Plainly the ratio of HJ is not limited just to sexual orientation cases but will apply to ...

I've been silent on this so far for fear of losing my rag. There is much distress still, a ...

R (on the application of Medical Justice) v Secretary of State for the Home Department EW ...

An unpublished UKBA internal investigation has rejected the complaints made by Louise Perr ...

The Home Office has announced that Certificates of Approval will be scrapped in late 2010 ...

The Home Office appeal to the Supreme Court in ZO (Somalia) UKSC 36 has been dismissed. ...

The concisely monikered Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency yesterday published two ...

I can't keep up! If things ever quieten down I'll do a few more weighty analysis posts but ...

The Government has laid a new Statement of Changes (HC 382) that incorporates the parts of ...

The Points Based System test case, Pankina, is not being appealed by UKBA. This has been c ...

The related House of Lords decisions of June 2008 (Beoku-Betts, Chikwamba and EB (Kosovo)) ...

I've been so busy I forgot to post a link to this recent piece on The Guardian's Comment I ...

The Court of Appeal has adopted a helpfully limited approach to the meaning of 'false repr ...

HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department UKSC 31 represen ...

Firstly, I am well aware that this blog is seriously behind with a lot of the developments ...

UPDATE: see proper post here with analysis. Sorry for the headline, which is in fact an a ...

The appeal against the Home Office interpretation of the Points Based System has succeed ...

The union at RMJ is organising a demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice tomorrow. S ...

Refugee and Migrant Justice, formerly known as the Refugee Legal Centre, has gone into adm ...

The new Government is making it a requirement that all spouses coming to the UK will need ...

I re-Tweeted this a few days ago but thought it was worth highlighting for those who (argu ...

UPDATE: challenge successful. Penningtons have dropped me a line with some interesting in ...

HJT Training have set up a blog for updates and developments on immigration law and practi ...

I dropped into court this afternoon to see how the PBS challenge was going. Unfortunatel ...

Attorney General Trstenjak has given his opinion in the Lassal case (referred to the ECJ b ...

No-notice removals have been suspended following a legal challenge brought by Medical Just ...

The more detailed coalition government programme is now available. The immigration section ...

This bit of BBC research will come as no surprise to anyone who has attempted to use a UKB ...

A sign of things to come: Following the UK general election on 6 May 2010, the UK Border A ...

Supreme Court press release here and judgment here. The reasoning is remarkably short: th ...

Well, the Tories are in. I can't imagine their Lib Dem stooges voting for an immigration ...

Quick alert courtesy of the Supreme Court website. Judgment in ZN (Afghanistan) is at last ...

Today seems an auspicious day to examine Labour’s recent immigration history. At first gl ...

I have received the following email and I'm happy to bring it to the attention of readers: ...

I'm up late this evening with plenty more work still do to, and like many bloggers (er, al ...

UKBA got away with an appeal against a finding of misfeasance in public office in the new ...

The Court of Appeal has again revisited the vexed question of removals to war torn count ...

There was another story on the scarcity of Home Office Presenting Officers, this time in T ...

A sea change is needed on the detention of foreign nationals in the United Kingdom. Period ...

There have been two interesting recent cases on Article 8. The most recent and far and aw ...

Free Movement has been asked to highlight the I ? MIGRANTS campaign and upcoming launch ev ...

No responsible politician or political party would have a section of their manifesto for ...

Just a quick alerter post. This actually happened a couple of weeks ago but I was insanely ...

BA (Nigeria) UKSC 7 in the Supreme Court did not create a right of appeal against refusal ...

In the really very small world of UK immigration websites, someone has seen fit to set up ...

The Big Fat Greek Test Case has been dismissed. Read all about it here. Permission has bee ...

This falls firmly into the gossip category. Please accept my apologies, the more serious m ...

A new previously undisclosed UKBA policy on children has come to light, brought to you cou ...

This is brilliant. Looks like a fun day at the Public Enquiry Office to me. It is In Yo ...

Yet more changes to the rules. Haven't had a chance to look properly as I am on my way to ...

The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights has intervened in a Strasbourg case ...

Judgment is out in JS (Sri Lanka), an appeal to the Supreme Court from KJ (Sri Lanka) in t ...

Further to my alerter post on this last month, the judgment is now available in the damnin ...

In the case of MD (Jamaica) & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWCA ...

The Court of Appeal has re-visited the proper approach to deciding whether fresh asylum cl ...

I've just seen the first half decent cross examination by a Presenting Officer that I can ...

That's Twitter for you. Or so I thought... Long term and very observant readers may have ...

Hugh Southey of Tooks Chambers, Stephen Knafler of Garden Court Chambers and Raza Husain o ...

The Lib Dems have tabled an objection to the latest Immigration Rules changes, covered ear ...

Mr Justice Collins has given a scathing judgment in a grant of permission to a judicial re ...

I've just come across an interesting little judgment on mandatory refusal cases. It is onl ...

I've been working on new training notes and having fun (noooooo!) deleting all of the refe ...

The appeal to the Supreme Court against the Court of Appeal judgment in DL (DRC) and ZN (A ...

After being trailed on breakfast TV, the new rules on students were eventually more formal ...

There were developments last week in the world of third country removal cases, and now see ...

No time for proper posting right now, too much to do. Although I do have some long train j ...

Claims have emerged from a UKBA staff member previously based at Cardiff that her colleagu ...

I thought I'd highlight another case that came out before Christmas and which I didn't h ...

I'm reluctant to post on this as it causing so much anger in the sector at the moment and ...

The first case I've seen dealing with the notorious Immigration Rule 320 no-return provisi ...

I'm back and even have time on my hands to do some catching up, as a three day case just w ...

I've just visited the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia. It is based in one of th ...

Free Movement is leaving for warmer climes and will return embarrassingly late in January. ...

Just a quick warning to practitioners. There have been a small number of examples recently ...

This is another from last week's luggage carousel - I'm still catching up, I'm afraid. In ...

UKBA have changed their removals policy, and not in a nice way. The announcement letter to ...

Further to my earlier posts on this, the judgment in Mahad and Others UKSC 16 (as it can ...

The case of TK (Tamils, LP updated) Sri Lanka CG UKAIT 00049 is next on the carousel. As ...

The luggage carousel of the UK courts has deposited a collection of interesting new cases. ...

It seems that news of this has circulated fast. After what must be fifteen years at the ...

Many thanks to the encyclopedic John O of NCADC for this information. The Court of Appeal ...

The JCWI challenge to the increase to the spouse and partner visa age from 18 to 21 has be ...

Following on from my earlier alerter post, I've now had time to properly read and start di ...

I've just been drafting a skeleton argument for yet another Points Based System student re ...

Permission has been granted in the case of R (on the app of Darboe) v SSHD EWHC 3100 (Adm ...

Permission has finally been granted for an appeal to the Court of Appeal on the current ...

As you can see, I've made some presentational changes to the blog over the weekend. Votes ...

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of claimants in two immigration cases today. In R ( ...

I've made a few slight changes to the blog I thought I ought to explain. The UKBA press ...

I've been to a couple of AGMs in the last couple of weeks -- Hammersmith and Fulham Comm ...

Enough is enough. I've deleted the earlier Cambridge College of Learning posts and comment ...

I've just seen that judgment is now available on BAILII* in a recent successful challenge ...

The new president of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the new Upper Tribunal has been ...

My bad, as I believe some young people today sometimes say. Many thanks to the excellen ...

News just in, more to follow tomorrow, if there's anything to say. AM (Somalia) was heard ...

The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) is currently consulting on th ...

My my, one gets more comments on The Guardian website than on Free Movement! I've been bus ...

Do not be fooled by the first judgment in AS (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Ho ...

UPDATE: see this judgment. There have been some interesting developments on permission ...

Two more things on this topic. One, I've belatedly discovered that UKBA released a draft v ...

In the recent case of MS and others (family reunion: "in order to seek asylum") Somalia ...

There has been a spate of big cases in the last few days. I'll deal first with what is p ...

A tad sensationalist, I know, but true enough, you will find. The Chief Inspector of UKB ...

In an unusually dramatic move, the Presenting Officer in the recent case of KB (para: 320( ...

News just in: Mr Justice Davis sitting in the High Court has ordered the Home Office to di ...

It appears that UKBA have genuinely gone nuts. From tomorrow, 14 October 2009, they are re ...

The policy instruction to UKBA staff on the sinister sounding Human Provenance Project (wh ...

Further to my earlier post on the alleged relaxing of asylum rules, see the Government res ...

The Daily Telegraph has claimed that there is a new policy that asylum seekers may be gran ...

It looks like UKBA have suspended the isotope analysis testing programme ominously called ...

In another development that would be shocking were we not so used to it by now, it has eme ...

It sounds like the title of a dystopian science fiction film, and it is every bit as bad a ...

Back to this old chestnut. I've been doing a bit more work on the subject and thought I'd ...

I've been following with some interest the establishment of the snappily-entitled Office o ...

I'm sorry to harp on about this and will return to some substantive legal blogging next we ...

I'm sitting on the fence on this one. One the one hand it would be a tragedy if someone of ...

The media coverage on this story has been interesting. The Telegraph is running a short st ...

Since 2005, refugees have been granted five years of limited leave, at the end of which th ...

In the recent case of AK (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWCA Civ 941 ...

I've heard a couple of reports of dissent in different ranks this week. Firstly, I've hea ...

I've created a new category on the visa age to keep track of the different posts I've writ ...

Courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act, I can exclusively report (I've never written t ...

I'm going to be away for a while and will begin posting again at the beginning of Septembe ...

There has been a noticeable trend recently for the Home Office to refuse applications but ...

Permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal has been granted in at least three cases to lo ...

An interesting judgment has been handed down today: NR (Jamaica) v SSHD EWCA Civ 856. It ...

This is a question many immigrants and immigration lawyers are asking themselves about the ...

Just a quick post on this to highlight an extremely useful case that's been handed down to ...

There have been several important judgments from the Court of Appeal in the last few weeks ...

On Thursday the Immigration Law Practitioners Association celebrated its 25th anniversary, ...

On a day where there are several appalling linked stories in the press about the horror an ...

No time for a proper post on this new case from the tribunal, NA & Others (Tier 1 Post ...

This is becoming something of a hot topic, no doubt because of the number of Sri Lankan an ...

I was very sorry to hear last week that Sir Henry Hodge, President of the Asylum and Imm ...

There are two recent important developments on this front. The first is that the Home Off ...

Wending my way north on the train at an ungodly hour this morning, I found my reserved sea ...

The determination concerns the award of a qualification for the purposes of Tier 1: Post S ...

There has been a rush of cases in recent weeks on the subject of the Refugee Convention ...

The Home Office have today announced some changes to the Points Based System for Tier 4 st ...

I recently wrote a post on fresh claims for asylum explaining what they are and summarisin ...

The Home Office have announced that they plan to impose all sorts of new requirements on ...

There are reports that the Home Office just conceded a judicial review against the mainten ...

The Home Office recently increased the minimum age for both spouses to 21 if a foreign spo ...

In some ways it was heartening to read yesterday and this morning about the Government cli ...

Odelola v SSHD has been dismissed in the House of Lords. The immigration rules that apply ...

I thought it was high time for a general advice post, as it's been a while since the last ...

Few will lament its passing, announced today by still Immigration Minister Phil Woolas. Th ...

In an unusual example of the Court of Appeal being less liberal than the Asylum and Immigr ...

This Hello! style headline is perhaps the clearest sign yet that the Asylum and Immigrat ...

Just a quick post to highlight the fact that charges are no longer made by the Home Office ...

There was an interesting article in The Telegraph last Saturday about immigration appeal h ...

Someone brought this job advert to my attention. It's been fun writing this blog and repre ...

I was very sad to hear that Steve Cohen has died. Some of the obituaries that have been ...

The Home Office do like to shift the goal posts. Sometimes this is because they lost anoth ...

The flunky that writes the Home Office press releases really needs to tone it down and get ...

A new Operational Guidance Note for Zimbabwe has been published by the Home Office. These ...

I've come across some interesting articles on 'credibility' through the Forced Migration C ...

Just heard this at court this morning. Apparently fire broke out at 3.40pm yesterday. Did ...

It very much looks like the AIT is about to be scrapped and merged into the new unified Tr ...

The Government's disregard for the rule of law grows more and more alarming. I confine mys ...

I noticed in the policy feed in the left panel on this blog that there was an item about t ...

Following a comment on the comments system, I thought I better do a quick update. Firstly, ...

There have been a number of recent determinations and judgments, not all of which quite ...

News from ILPA is that the recent trend towards rejecting in-country applications to switc ...

Apparently the Refugee Legal Centre are to change their name to Refugee and Migrants' Just ...

I posted on this relatively recently but another important judgment has just come out: ZH ...

The news on the strikes against foreign workers has made depressing reading: British worke ...

It was already clear but now it could not be clearer: you do not have to show that ther ...

But lacks the energy to write anything intelligent. Par for the course, some might claim.  ...

After a long day in court fighting a losing battle and with plenty of work still to do bef ...

News just in: the Home Office's secret policy of a presumption of detention in almost all ...

The Immigration Advisory Service has been around since 1972, although, out of the ashes of ...

UKBA have announced a limited concession to the rise in the visa age to 21 for spouses and ...

An interesting judgment has just come out in which the High Court has held to be unlaw ...

Free Movement may be cursed. Almost as soon as I blogged about DP3/96 it was scrapped, and ...

This post is definitely one for other immigration lawyers. Anyone else will be left thin ...

Apparently there are currently long waits for initial asylum interviews and decisions from ...

I am acutely conscious that this is a controversial, difficult subject and there have been ...

       Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu has strongly criticised Phil Woolas for his ...

Damian Green, the Conservative frontbench spokeman on immigration, has been arrested tonig ...

The Home Office is apparently not going to appeal the recent Zimbabwean test case, RN (Ret ...

I want briefly to acknowledge the passing of the Working Holiday Maker scheme today. It wa ...

UPDATE: the seven year children rule has been scrapped. Read more here. --- There are tw ...

This post falls firmly into the 'gossip' category and cannot be taken as reliable because ...

This news will be welcomed by Zimbabweans in the UK. The decision in the latest test case, ...

UPDATE: I've calmed down slightly -- although I'm still fuming -- and amended the original ...

Well, this is a bit of a surprise. "Cameron, David" has lodged an Early Day Motion opposin ...

A few higher court immigration cases came out recently, on which I will post in due course ...

The Home Office has announced that major changes to the student rules will apply from Marc ...

Only yesterday I was telling someone there is no timescale for the Home Office to introduc ...

It's taken a while, and attendance on a training course, but I feel better equipped to com ...

There are still quite a few people coming across this blog by searching for news about 'Le ...

The Tribunal have just issued a determination holding that proxy marriages in Brazil must ...

There has been a fascinating little story unfolding around a case called SD (expert eviden ...

In the case of EM (Lebanon) v SSHD  UKHL 64 the House of Lords looked at Article 8 again ...

In a case called AM (Ethiopia) & Ors v Entry Clearance Officer EWCA Civ 1082 the Co ...

The new Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas, yesterday announced the announcement of new rul ...

The Country of Origin Information Service (COIS) at the Home Office is the successor to th ...

UPDATE: It would seem that Mark Ockelton has been sitting in the Administrative Court as a ...

Further to my last post on this subject, it turns out that my surprise was entirely justif ...

Since the introduction of fees for immigration applications in 2003, the Home Office has ...

In the selfless pursuit of immigration-related gossip and news, last Friday I went along t ...

So, Phil "Muslims are Inbred" Woolas (left) is the new immigration minister, and Liam "Des ...

I've just come across another good case from the Court of Appeal that came out over the su ...

The government is currently consulting on yet another fundamental overhaul of the immigrat ...

I tried, but I just couldn't think of a good title for this post. This is a follow up to a ...

It should not be a shock that the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal have in a case called HB ...

I've decided to make a few changes to the blog, which I hope are improvements. Comments fr ...

The BBC is reporting that the government will announce we are finally going to sign up pro ...

Bail for Immigration Detainees recently obtained statistics from the Ministry of Justice o ...

Shocker: the Home Office appear to have accepted what the Lords say in Chikwamba (see prev ...

I've just been looking at the Transpondia website. I first came across it a few months ago ...

I have come across four secret Home Office policies since I returned at the start of Septe ...

It sounds from various internet forums as if the British High Commission at Canberra is ge ...

Favourite shortage occupation: meteorologists It's official: we don't have enough home-gr ...

UPDATE: THIS RUMOUR DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE TRUE There is a reasonably credible rumour doin ...

I took no risks as I walked through immigration control. No point in aggravating them with ...

Normal service will resume in September - sorry folks!

The House of Lords have just issued four judgments today, three of which are good news for ...

I just came across a surprising Home Office press release. Usually, Home Office immigratio ...

News from the front line is that Entry Clearance Officers (ECOs) are overturning refusals ...

One of the annoyingly frequent changes to the immigration rules has just been issued and c ...

Thanks for those who posted comments pointing the way to updated guidance to visa officers ...

News just in from Mark Henderson, the barrister behind the Zimbabwe test case litigation,  ...

I found it necessary to polish off a bottle of wine before writing this post (Charon QC wo ...

Following on from the parliamentary debate last week, the Entry Clearance Guidance (ECG, u ...

Some great news on the re-entry ban saga. There was an unusually good debate in the Commo ...

The Home Office has managed to change the online guidance on DP3/96 surprisingly rapidly a ...

There was more evidence at the weekend that a shortage of Polish plumbers will soon hit th ...

The Government has lost yet again. I'm beginning to feel embarrassed for them. These repea ...

In terms of scraping the bottom of the barrel, this is beaten only by the withdrawal of th ...

Bastards. ...

An interesting case is circulating amongst immigration lawyers at the moment but has not b ...

Liam Byrne, the Immigration Minister, has written to the Immigration Law Practitioners Ass ...

It was with considerable pleasure that I read in the paper this morning that the HSMP Foru ...

The Home Office and UK Visas have published guidance on their website about how their deci ...

The letter setting out the settlement reached between the Law Society and the Legal Servic ...

There have been two important developments on returns to Iraq in the last week. The firs ...

In response to a comment left on my last post, I should make it clear that the concession ...

Immigration lawyers have been shocked by Government proposals to introduce from 1 April 20 ...

A fascinating article has appeared in The Irish Times. Several tribunal chairmen -- the Ir ...

I'm back, after a prolonged absence and thoughts of ending it all etc etc. The blog, not m ...

A very well sourced rumour has it that 95% of the outstanding 450,000 asylum ‘legacy’ case ...

JCWI have put out a press release stating that the Home Office has been granted permission ...

The official version of the determination, with explanatory headnote, has now been made av ...

Permission was granted today by Mr Justice Sullivan in a judicial review of the decision t ...

It has taken me a while to get around to posting on the House of Lords judgment in the Sud ...

Since I posted last night about the outcome of the HS (Zimbabwe) test case (we lost) the A ...

Many thanks to the leaver of a comment left on an earlier post on HS (Zimbabwe) for this. ...

I heard a great story the other day about the country guideline case that had been listed ...

There was a great article in The Guardian yesterday (yes, of course I read The Guardian) a ...

I've been spurred back into blogging by a report I just saw from The Independent. It's abo ...

Further to previous posts on this subject, there have been suggestions that the legacy 'ca ...

There have been some excellent and well-informed posts about this case already in the lega ...

The Court of Appeal has given the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal another good ticking off ...

An entertaining couple of articles appeared in The Mail on Sunday over the weekend. I'm no ...

I said some time ago that I would do a post on this subject and here it is… The maintenan ...

There's no amnesty. That's all. I wish it wasn't necessary to repeat this, but good immigr ...

There have been a lot of hits on this site from people looking for news about the Zimbabwe ...

Exactly one year ago, on 25 July 2006, then Home Secretary John Reid announced that his of ...

There have been a few emails flying around amongst refugee lawyers recently about a court- ...

UPDATE 19/4/09: The Home Office has stopped charging for Certificates of Approval. They sa ...

I've just seen press reports that the Home Office is suggesting that immigration enforceme ...

I've updated the Borders Bill page here with a little more up to date information. This fo ...

I've just been doing the appeal on a not-terribly-well-prepared spouse case. It was a frus ...

A few weeks ago, Channel 4 showed a documentary as part of the Unreported World series. Th ...

The framework for immigration control is mainly contained in the Immigration Act 1971. Thi ...

Via a comment left on this site, I've been made aware of an excellent blog called EU Case ...

It is a question faced by all immigrants. To be uprooted from your own country, culture an ...

Co-incidentally, after my last post on Unaccompanied Asylum Seeker Children (UASCs) an exc ...

In the fourth quarter of 2006, the most recent statistics available on asylum applications ...

On 1 May 2007 a new immigration category was created, called the International Graduates S ...

The title of this post is a reference both to the excellent organisation, Bail for Immigra ...

The test case of AA (Zimbabwe), mentioned in previous posts, is being dropped by the Asylu ...

Yesterday the Foreign and Commonwealth Office launched a new forced marriage survivor’s ha ...

A little too reminiscent of Cromwell's New Model Army, perhaps, the New Asylum Model is su ...

The Home Office has been planning a shift to a points-based system for assessing immigrati ...

A number of people seem to have come across this site while looking for information about ...

I'm still catching up on a few developments while I was away over Easter, and have just re ...

Until 2002 or thereabouts, the minimum age for the fiance in the UK who was to marry the p ...

This has been a sorry business. The background is that in mid 2006 it came to light that f ...

The fees for immigration applications made from both inside the UK (often referred to by i ...

There was some sort of riot at Campsfield Detention Centre last week, as anyone following ...

I went to a debate and discussion at the Royal Society of Arts on Tuesday and it proved in ...

I went for a drink last night with a couple of immigration lawyer friends and they had a l ...

The Court of Appeal has yet again overturned the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal's attempt ...

Oh dear, another crackdown has been announced by the good Dr Reid. Read all about via the ...