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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Powers and operational procedure: caseworker guidance
- Visit the UK for medical treatment
- Guidance: Criminality guidance in article 8 ECHR cases: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT)
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Cases involving pending prosecution: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Returns preparation: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: endorsed funders (Global Talent visa)
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: employing or hosting institutions (Global Talent visa)
- 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
- Rwanda deportation law should not apply in Northern Ireland, court rules
- UK politics: government to appeal against ruling that blocks Rwanda deportations in Northern Ireland – as it happened
- Chelsea flower show hosts garden designed to help survivors of torture
- UK universities report drop in international students amid visa doubts
- ‘We had money! It was brilliant!’ Margaret Hodge on Labour governments, life as a migrant and quitting as an MP
- Child refugees using people smugglers to reach family in UK, report warns
- Rishi Sunak: UK is facing some of the most dangerous years in its history
- Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work? | Sunder Katwala
- ‘If Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to join us’ … Was Natalie Elphicke’s defection a step too far for Labour?
- Home Office faces legal challenge over risk of lone children being sent to Rwanda
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Category Archives: Settlement
Somali ILR holder stranded in Africa for 16 years succeeds in Cart judicial review in Court of Appeal
Ali v Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 372 (17 April 2024) Andrews LJ described this case as “most extraordinary”. The Court of Appeal held that FTTJ Rhys Davies had erred in his interpretation of … Continue reading
Court of Appeal disapproves of tribunal’s decision in Capparelli
R (Roehrig) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 240 (12 March 2024) The Court of Appeal has held that a child born to a French national mother who was ordinarily resident in the UK while … Continue reading
HC 590: Changes to MIR, Skilled Worker and other rules
Statement of Changes in the Immigration Rules HC 590 introduces much higher new minimum income requirements (MIR) which were announced by the Home Office on 4 December 2023 in what the Home Secretary James Cleverly called his “five-point plan” to reduce … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix EU, Appendix FM, Article 8, ECHR, Immigration Rules, MIR, Settlement, Skilled Worker, Spouses
Tagged Article 8, Immigration Rules
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Appendix FM leave knocks out Zambrano right of residence
R (Akinsanya & Anor) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWHC 469 (Admin) (11 March 2024) Eyre J has held that before Brexit, the right to reside in the UK available to carers under the decision in … Continue reading
One-application-at-a-time policy: Court of Appeal differentiates ‘human rights claim’ from ‘leave to remain’
MY (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 1500 (15 October 2021) The Court of Appeal has held that an ILR application as a victim of domestic violence does not inherently involve a human rights … Continue reading
Revival of section 3C leave approved by Court of Appeal
R (Akinola & Anor) v Upper Tribunal & Anor [2021] EWCA Civ 1308 (26 August 2021) In these judicial review proceedings, the Court of Appeal decided that in circumstances where an extension of time had been granted for an out-of-time … Continue reading
Supreme Court dismisses deportation appeal of settled Iranian national who lawfully entered the UK as a child
Sanambar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 30 (16 July 2021) The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed Mr Sanambar’s appeal and held that the Upper Tribunal correctly approached the balancing exercise required by article 8 of the ECHR and it … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Automatic Deportation, Deportation, ECHR, ECtHR, Families, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, Iran, Public Interest, Removals, Settlement, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Üner, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Immigration Rules, Maslov, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Government prevails over sexual offender in Court of Appeal
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Starkey [2021] EWCA Civ 421 (26 March 2021) In the SSHD’s appeal against a decision of the UT overturning a deportation order made in respect of Mr Deon Starkey, the Court of … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Court of Appeal, Deportation, Permanent Residence, Settlement, Sexual Offences, South Africa
Tagged Anonymity, Article 8, Deportation, Part5A NIAA
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Local authority can apply for EUSS settled status for children in care without court approval
W and Re Z (EU Settled Status for Looked After Children) [2021] EWHC 783 (Fam) (31 March 2021) In these proceedings the court was required to determine whether local authorities needed its authorisation to apply for immigration status or passports … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix EU, Brexit, Children, European Union, EUSS, Family Court, Free Movement, Settled Status, Settlement, Windrush
Tagged Brexit, Children, European Union, Passports, Settled Status, Withdrawal Agreement
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Refusal of ILR but grant of leave means no right of appeal
R (M Aleem Mujahid) v First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) [2021] EWCA Civ 449 (31 March 2021) These proceedings turned on the question where a person who is in the UK makes an application for indefinite leave to … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Appeals, Article 8, Court of Appeal, Curtailment, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Pakistan, Paragraph 322(5), PBS, Post Study Work, Settlement, Tier 1, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged ILR, Immigration Rules, PBS, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court, Upper Tribunal
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SSHD succeeds against BNO in Court of Appeal
The Secretary of State for the Home Department v Tariq [2021] EWCA Civ 378 (16 March 2021) In these proceedings the Court of Appeal held that Helen Mountfield QC, sitting as as a Deputy High Court Judge of the Administrative … Continue reading
Government can retain passport without removing citizenship
R (Xhelilaj) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 408 (Admin) (24 February 2021) Mr Edmir Xhelilaj, a British citizen whose stated place of birth is now in the Republic of North Macedonia, sought judicial review of … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Citizenship and Nationality, ECHR, Judicial Review, Settlement
Tagged British Citizenship, Identity, Naturalisation, Passports
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Court of Appeal refuses to reopen paragraph 322(5) appeal
R (Akram) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1072 (12 August 2020) The Court of Appeal has refused to reopen the appeal of a Pakistani Tier 1 (General) Migrant who had been refused indefinite leave … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Court of Appeal, Hostile Environment, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Pakistan, Paragraph 322(5), PBS, Settlement, Tier 1, Tribunals
Tagged Case Law, Court of Appeal, Earnings discrepancy, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Points Based System, Tribunals
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