The BBC’s Inside Out Yorkshire programme ran a story tonight on sham marriages, trailed in a BBC News item the day before. There are six days left to watch the programme on iPlayer if for some reason you would like to see it.
As with Team UK Border Force: World Police [...]
A plethora of immigration tweaks were announced yesterday, mainly of a technical nature. There is still no sign of the introduction of a minimum income level nor the ending of Tier 2 settlement applications. It is beginning to seem likely that these will be announced at short notice, probably to avoid encouraging applications under the [...]
A new decision from the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal offers relief to work permit holders caught out by a sneaky change to the Immigration Rules in April last year. This topic has been covered here on the blog before, here and here.
Before the new [...]
Just a quick one to flag up a guest post I’ve written for the 1 Crown Office Row UK Human Rights Blog. It covers Abu Qatada, indefinite detention and the irrelevance of the Human Rights Act to the decision that he must be released.
Several important new cases have just emerged on the subject of marriage and the immigration rules for spouses. They all deal with the evidence and burden of proof in such cases. The President of the Upper Tribunal’s Immigration and Asylum Chamber, Mr Justice Blake, has had a hand in all three.
The first of [...]
Free Movement entirely retracts the article that was previously published here regarding the Chapti case and apologises to those involved. The comments in the article went considerably beyond fair, were unreasonably speculative and were misleading as to the true circumstances of the litigation. No contact was made with those responsible prior to publication.
Just a quick alert that Nicola Braganza of Tooks Chambers and Colin Yeo of Renaissance Chambers are delivering training this Monday night (6 February) for HJT Training on the recently announced scrapping of paragraph 395C of the Immigration Rules and tying that in with an update on the end of [...]
In parallel announcements the UK Border Agency has said that language requirements for Tiers 1, 2 and 4 of the Points Based System (highly skilled, skilled and students) are being tightened up slightly.
The concession that allowed Tier 1 and 2 applicants to make an in-country immigration application before sitting the language test is [...]
The latest Country Guidance case on Zimbabwe finds, in essence, that despite vociferous and violent pronouncements about homosexuality at the highest level in that country, Zimbabwe is a safe haven for lesbians and gays. The case is LZ (homosexuals) Zimbabwe CG [2011] UKUT 00487 (IAC) and it was reported on 26 January [...]
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Immigration cases- SS (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 155 (21 February 2012) 21 February 2012
- Secretary of State for the Home Department v SP (North Korea) & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 114 (16 February 2012) 16 February 2012
- Sanade and others (British children - Zambrano Dereci) [2011] UKUT 48 (IAC) (07 February 2012) 10 February 2012
- YF (China) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 77 (10 February 2012) 10 February 2012
- A v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 117 (Admin) (08 February 2012) 8 February 2012
- Masih (deportation - public interest - basic principles) Pakistan [2012] UKUT 46 (IAC) (07 February 2012) 7 February 2012
- Othman v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSIAC B1 (6 February 2012) 6 February 2012
- Moussaoui, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 126 (Admin) (03 February 2012) 3 February 2012
- UK Border Agency
- Online appointment bookings in UK unavailable on 21 February 2012 21 February 2012
- Gatwick airport drugs smuggler 17 February 2012
- Biometric residence permits are being introduced for more immigration categories 14 February 2012
- Changes to Tier 1 application requirements 13 February 2012
- New student rules to welcome the brightest and best while tackling abuse 13 February 2012
- Immigration news
- 35 years for Nikitta Grender's killer 22 February 2012
- S Korea urges China on refugees 22 February 2012
- Somalia: UK weighs up air strikes against rebels 22 February 2012
- Letters: The UKBA and child asylum seekers 22 February 2012
- Somali community in Britain begins to find its voice 22 February 2012
- Policy and research
- New migrants need better quality private rented housing 22 February 2012
- Shock Horror News! Inspection shows it doesn’t really matter that not all passengers are subjected to the full rigour of identity checks at borders 21 February 2012
- A manifesto on migration and integration for the next Mayor of London 20 February 2012
- The story of MRN (so far...) 20 February 2012
- The Legal Aid Bill - last chance to act 20 February 2012
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