- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Citizenship Fees Amendment Briefing
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal): No Recourse to Public Funds Exemption Amendment Briefing
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal): Children’s Rights Impact Assessment Briefing
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal): Best Interests Assessment Safeguard for Removals Amendment Briefing
- Immigration legal advice and representation for children, young people and families
Law Commission proposals could transform international surrogacy
The Law Commission has proposed a new surrogacy pathway, replacing the “outdated” existing laws about having a child on behalf of somebody else. The key provisions of the current legislation have remained relatively constant for almost thirty year ...
11th June 2019Important new judgments on KO (Nigeria) case and removing migrants with children in the UK
The immigration tribunal has, once again, grappled with the public interest considerations which must be taken into account in all private and family life appeals against a migrant’s removal from the UK. It is now clear that, even where a child ...
15th April 2019Unrecognised adoptions can attract EU free movement rights
Assiduous Free Movement readers and European law aficionados may remember the case of SM (Algeria) v Entry Clearance Officer [2018] UKSC 9, covered in this previous post. The case has now gone from the Supreme Court to the Court of Justice of the Eur ...
28th March 2019Home Office put eight-month-old baby with British citizenship in immigration detention centre
The High Court has allowed a Home Office appeal arguing that it is not necessarily unlawful to put British citizens in immigration detention. The judgment in Home Office v TR & Anor [2019] EWHC 49 (QB) concerned an eight-month-old baby d ...
18th January 2019Children of single parents: the sole responsibility and exclusion undesirable tests
Where parents have already or are relocating to the United Kingdom and both parents will end up in the UK (or one parent will and the other is deceased) then the Immigration Rules permit them to bring their children. The main requirements are that the ...
3rd January 2019Scottish court muddies the waters following KO (Nigeria)
Regular readers of this blog will, by now, be well aware of the Supreme Court’s decision in KO (Nigeria) which determined the correct approach in immigration cases involving children who are either British or who have lived in the UK for seven years ...
17th December 2018