- Legal aid and care leavers with immigration cases, August 2019
- EU Settlement Scheme – European looked after children and care leavers
- Briefings on the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
- Guidance on supporting separated and unaccompanied children to access legal aid in immigration cases
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill: Citizenship Fees Amendment Briefing
Mother of two British children denied visa to move with them to the UK
The case of SD (British citizen children – entry clearance) Sri Lanka [2020] UKUT 43 (IAC) shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone following developments around Appendix FM and the rules relating to the rights of family members of British citiz ...
24th February 2020£1,000 child citizenship fee found unlawful
The High Court has ruled that charging a citizenship fee of over £1,000 to children is unlawful. The decision will be widely welcomed by campaigners who have long argued that the fee charged to register a child as British, which is set far above the ...
19th December 2019My client’s 13-year-old son is alone in Ghana and she can’t afford £2,500 in Home Office fees to bring him here
In July 2018, a Ghanaian lady named Florence* received a call to say that her 12-year-old son was about to be left on the streets of Accra unless she came to take him. The boy had been in the care of Florence’s sister, who had recently died. Flo ...
22nd November 2019Government drops appeal in citizenship case where girl’s mother married to someone else
A law preventing men from passing on British citizenship to their biological offspring where the child’s mother is married to someone else may now be reconsidered in light of a government decision to drop its appeal against a landmark ruling made la ...
19th November 2019EU children can be lawfully resident in the UK without exercising treaty rights
The Upper Tribunal judgment in MS (British citizenship; EEA appeals) Belgium [2019] UKUT 356 (IAC) confirms that certain EU citizen children in the UK can be considered lawfully resident for the purposes of Article 8 of the European Convention on Huma ...
19th November 2019British by descent: when the child of a British citizen is not themselves British
A story hit the news over the weekend of two-year-old Lucy, the child of British parents who has been told by the Home Office that she must leave the UK. It is always difficult to comment on news stories without knowing the full facts but it is certai ...
15th October 2019