- Man who won British citizenship by fraud gets to keep it thanks to Home Office inaction
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- Shamima Begum, legal aid and access to justice
- This is what the Court of Appeal decided about Shamima Begum – and what happens next
Man who won British citizenship by fraud gets to keep it thanks to Home Office inaction
An Albanian man who secured his British citizenship by fraud must be allowed to keep it because of the Home Office’s inexplicable nine-year delay in taking action after it found out, the Court of Appeal has held. The judgment in Laci v Secretary ...
24th May 2021New Plan for Immigration: the proposed changes to nationality law
The New Plan for Immigration Policy Statement of March 2021 (the New Plan) contains proposals to make significant changes to immigration and nationality law and policy. This article addresses the proposals set out in Chapter 3, which concern changes t ...
29th April 2021Good character requirement unlawfully applied in Windrush cases
From ‘Citizens of the UK and Colonies’, to ‘Commonwealth Citizens’, to ‘subject to immigration control’: the legislative erosion of the Windrush generation’s British citizenship rights is laid bare at paragrap ...
27th April 2021British citizenship, polygamy and paternity
Huson v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Entry Clearance Officer) (Rev 1) [2021] EWHC 885 (Admin) looks like a case about a 19-year- old’s entitlement to the right of abode. We don’t see many right of abode cases these days, mai ...
22nd April 2021Passports can be issued to British children abroad without abusive father’s consent
Her Majesty’s Passport Office was wrong to insist on signed consent for child passports from an abusive father, the High Court has held in R (GA & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 868 (Admin). British child ...
16th April 2021A first look at the “New Plan for Immigration”
Today the Home Office published a new plan for immigration with the title, somehow both grandiloquent and banal, New Plan for Immigration. It is mainly concerned with asylum and people who enter the UK illegally (those two concepts being subtly mashed ...
24th March 2021