- 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
My 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 2019Disclosure of documents from family court proceedings
The recent – and by now infamous – case of Re Nasrullah Mursalin [2019] EWCA Civ 1559, in which a paralegal was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for disclosing papers from family proceedings to an immigration tribunal judge, has generated m ...
9th October 2019Why can’t my children join me in the UK?
Earlier this week, the Guardian published the story of Amber Murrey, a US academic who got a job at Oxford as an associate geography professor, but whose two daughters, aged 4 and 9, were refused visas to join her in the UK. The story explains that Ms ...
4th October 2019