- 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
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal): No Recourse to Public Funds Exemption Amendment Briefing
Disclosure 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 2019Family courts have no power to prevent removal of children at risk of FGM abroad
The President of the Family Division has decided that the family courts have no jurisdiction to interfere with immigration control, even if they think it is necessary to protect a girl from female genital mutilation (FGM). The most they can do is to a ...
1st October 2019Change in law for European families offers temporary hope for unrecognised adoptions
A small amendment to UK law could soon make a big difference to European families resident here who are struggling to bring home children adopted in Muslim countries abroad. A change to the legal definition of who counts as an EEA citizen’s “fam ...
7th August 2019Comment: Britain’s unaccompanied migrant children should be supported, not abandoned
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children often get short term leave to remain in the UK for only 30 months or until they turn 17-and-a-half, whichever is the shorter period of time. While they may get extensions at the end of such periods often they simp ...
25th July 2019Court of Justice to rule on eviction of children from asylum shelters
States have domestic and international legal obligations to provide suitable housing for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. But a vulnerable young client at the Refugee Legal Support (RLS) clinic in Athens was last month kicked out of his accommod ...
4th July 2019