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Changes to asylum process and procedure

5 March 2015 By Colin Yeo

The circumstances in which an asylum claim may be treated as abandoned by an applicant have been extended with effect from 27 February 2015. Statement of Changes HC 1025 has inserted new wording into paragraph 333C of the Immigration Rules so that it provides: An application may be treated as impliedly withdrawn if an applicant leaves the United Kingdom without authorisation at any time prior to the conclusion of his or her asylum claim, or fails to complete an asylum questionnaire as … Read More >>

Full immigration appeals ended: Immigration Act 2014 brought into force

2 March 2015 By Colin Yeo

Full appeal rights for applications under the Points Based System are being ended with effect from today, 2 March 2015, and for all other cases from 6 April 2015. The initial change applies to those who make an application on or after 2 March 2015 under Tiers 1, 2 or 5, and of course has already … Read More >>

Why is the immigration tribunal so uniquely impervious to modernity?

26 February 2015 By Colin Yeo

Immigration tribunal communication tool?

In a recent determination, the President of the Upper Tribunal suggested that documents and submissions could be sent electronically to the tribunal in order to facilitate efficient justice: ...parties and their representatives are strongly encouraged to communicate electronically with the … Read More >>

Benefits to be withdrawn from EEA jobseekers previously unaffected by the January 2014 changes

24 February 2015 By Desmond Rutledge

In January 2014, the Government introduced a number of measures aimed at restricting EEA migrants’ access to income-based JSA. A key change was the introduction of a statutory presumption that entitlement to income-based JSA (‘JSA(IB)’) would be limited to a period of three months (or six months for … Read More >>

Out with the old, in with the new: Edgehill, Haleemudeen and now Singh

23 February 2015 By Helen Foot

Where an application for leave to remain is made before 9 July 2012 but decided after that date, which Immigration Rules should apply to it? The answer, according to Court of Appeal in Singh v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 74, is the ‘old’ Rules, but only for decisions … Read More >>

Operation Nexus for dummies: happening now, in our time

20 February 2015 By Nick Nason

Two men are suspected of robbing a bank. Let’s call them Ken, a British national, and Boris, a non-British national. Boris arrived in the UK from somewhere in the Caucasus when he was 3, about 27 years ago. He holds Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK but, being a bit scatty, never applied for … Read More >>

Updates and commentary on immigration and asylum law

Changes to asylum process and procedure

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Tribunal pronounces on statutory human rights considerations

New immigration rules for visitors to the United Kingdom

Full immigration appeals ended: Immigration Act 2014 brought into force

Why is the immigration tribunal so uniquely impervious to modernity?

Benefits to be withdrawn from EEA jobseekers previously unaffected by the January 2014 changes

Out with the old, in with the new: Edgehill, Haleemudeen and now Singh

Operation Nexus for dummies: happening now, in our time

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