- Failure to carry out proper medical assessment makes detention unlawful
- New guidance on costs awards against the Home Office could transform immigration appeals
- No costs awarded despite “clearly unfounded” certification being withdrawn
- Tribunal opens door to awards of costs against Home Office for unreasonable behaviour
- Court of Appeal to Home Office: go away
The new UK in-country visa application system
On 2 November 2018, UK Visas and Immigration launched a new system for visa applications made within the UK. It involves an overhauled online application process and new Visa and Citizenship Application Service centres operated by outsourcing firms S ...
12th November 2018New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 1534
A new statement of changes to the Immigration Rules was laid yesterday, 10 October. There is some very welcome news, including more flexibility given to caseworkers on whether and when they can write to applicants to ask for missing documents. (Wheth ...
12th October 2018Above-inflation increase in immigration and nationality fees for 2018/19
New fees for immigration and nationality applications came into effect on 6 April 2018 and a slightly expanded list of fees applies from 8 October 2018. This post, originally published in April but now updated to reflect those mid-year additions, show ...
20th September 2018Comment: migrants need the right to work while fighting immigration cases
I am quoted in a recent Guardian story about the notorious, if niche, paragraph 322(5) of the Immigration Rules. This is the rule being used to refuse leave to remain to migrants because of alleged discrepancies between their tax returns to HMRC and t ...
28th August 2018Upper Tribunal’s error of law reasoning can very rarely be altered when a decision is re-made
In AZ (error of law: jurisdiction; PTA practice) Iran [2018] UKUT 245 (IAC) the determination makes heavy weather of restating some settled principles of law and practice. The judge granting permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal had raised the q ...
8th August 2018Of course an online immigration application is valid, Court of Appeal says
R (Singh) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 1669 is about how the transitional provisions in the Immigration Rules apply to online applications which must be supported with further evidence sent later by post. The appell ...
7th August 2018