- Immigration legal advice and representation for children, young people and families
- Integrated Communities Strategy green paper consultation
- Windrush and the need for shorter routes to regularisation
- Home Office consideration of children’s ‘best interests’
- A strong and united voice for refugee and migrant children
Children 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 2018Briefing: how lawyers can help young people in the asylum system
Claiming asylum can be a traumatic experience. Having to relive the worst events in your life while you undergo a series of interviews and hearings is bad enough. It is even worse when Home Office officials are highly sceptical about a young person’ ...
10th December 2018Supreme Court: bad behaviour by parent irrelevant to best interests of children
The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in four linked cases all concerning the best interests of children who themselves face removal from the UK or whose parent faces removal from the UK. The case is likely to be referred to as KO (Nigeria) ...
24th October 2018Immigration and nationality law for adopted children
Immigration and nationality law as it relates to international adoption is undoubtedly complex and a topic with which only a few practitioners are familiar. There are numerically very few international adoption cases, after all. The inevitable cross o ...
17th October 2018Upper Tribunal tackles the law on the parent/child relationship
In SR (subsisting parental relationship – s117B(6)) Pakistan 2018 UKUT 3345 (IAC), the Upper Tribunal examines the various pieces of law relevant to deciding whether someone who has a child in the UK should be allowed to stay here. The case is helpf ...
16th October 2018