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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Zimbabwe: tuberculosis test clinics for a UK visa
- Guidance: Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 leave: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: China: tuberculosis test clinics for a UK visa
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Form: Windrush Scheme application form (UK)
- Form: Windrush Compensation Scheme: claim forms and guidance
- Guidance: Windrush Compensation Scheme: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: PBS sponsor licensing – certificates: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Asylum screening and routing: caseworker guidance
- Global Corporate Law
- Key Features of the Singapore Convention on Mediation
- What is the test for a ‘one man company’?
- LIBOR: The Final Nail in the Coffin?
- Banking and Misconduct: A Critique of the Cure of Culture
- Court of Appeal Opens the Door to LIBOR and Benchmark Misrepresentation Claims
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
- Immigration News
- A grownup debate, not game-playing, is the only way to address the refugee crisis | Letters
- The Guardian view on Sunak’s spending pledges: a Potemkin village of pretend policy | Editorial
- Senior C of E figure rejects claim of asylum-seeker baptism ‘conveyor belt’
- Don’t rescue people who scupper their Channel boats, says Reform UK deputy
- Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on Rwanda – but the electorate will punish him for it | Henry Hill
- Starmer must drain the poison from the immigration debate – it’s what the public wants | Rafael Behr
- ‘England is hope’: some say they will try again – despite Channel deaths
- Humanitarian groups demand safe routes to UK after five deaths in Channel
- The Guardian view on sending refugees to Rwanda: the UN is right – this law sets a bad example | Editorial
- Braverman dropping Windrush measures was unlawful, court told
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Increased fees from April
The immigration minister Mr Damian Green has issued a statement in which he proposes to increase fees for applications to study, visit, work or stay in the UK. The government will introduce the fees by laying two separate regulations in Parliament. … Continue reading
Latest immigration statistics
Overview The latest statistical bulletin produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on immigration is a very telling document. In its latest publication the ONS has observed that: In the year to September 2010 the overall number of entry … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Employment, Enforcement, ONS, PBS, Removals
Tagged Asylum, Immigration, ONS, Points Based System, Removals
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EU funding
European Union funding is available for projects lasting up to 3 years’ time under the European Refugee Fund (ERF) 2010 and European Integration Fund (EIF) 2010. ERF Under the ERF £1.8 million is available for new projects in 2010 in … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, European Union, Funding, Integration
Tagged Asylum, European Union, Funding
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April rules
The government has exempted niche professions such as bankers, lawyers and other migrants with high earnings from its immigration cap ( but only if they earn in excess of £150,000 per annum). This is redolent of the top-tier of the … Continue reading
Posted in AP (Russia), Employment, Immigration Rules, Pankina, PBS, Tier 1, Tier 2
Tagged AP (Russia), Immigration Cap, Immigration Rules, Points Based System, UKBA
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Economics of the Post Study Work visa
British educational institutions such as the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) are resisting the government’s plans to delete the PSW visa category from the immigration rules. It has been acknowledged by the Immigration Minister Mr Damian Green that … Continue reading
R (on the application of JCWI) v SSHD [2010] EWHC 3524
This is the judgment of the PBS judicial review. JCWI have posted a blog entry on the decision. Immigrants are very grateful to the Council for their leadership. At paragraph 37 the Court stated: It follows, in my judgment, that … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Immigration Cap, Immigration Rules, Pankina, PBS, Tier 1, Tier 2
Tagged AP (Russia), Article 8, Immigration Rules, Points Based System
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Prime Minister’s “speech”
History and political science are odd subjects. I recently posted on an Arab dictator who was universally acknowledged as a hero. But now I am forced, somewhat belatedly, to write about a leader of the western world – the British … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Egypt, France, Gandhi, Immigration Law, Islam, Muslims, Politics, Racism, Terrorism
Tagged Egypt, Immigration, Islam, Racism, Rule of law, Terrorism
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Immigration Minister’s speech
The Immigration Minister Mr Damian Green has made a rather long-winded speech on the government’s plans to reform the immigration rules in order to achieve a “sustainable” immigration policy for Britain. The full text of the minister’s speech is available … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Immigration Rules, PBS, Post Study Work, Settlement
Tagged Article 8, Migrant Workers, Points Based System
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Case Comment: ZH (Tanzania) v SSHD [2011] UKSC 4
While one Brenda (in Yarl’s Wood) awaits deportation from the UK to a certain death in Uganda, another Brenda in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (Baroness Hale of Richmond of course) has made some particularly telling observations regarding the … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Children, Citizenship and Nationality, Removals, s 55 BCIA, Tanzania, UKSC
Tagged Children, Removals, Tanzania, UK Supreme Court
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