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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Returns preparation: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: endorsed funders (Global Talent visa)
- Guidance: Powers and operational procedure: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: UKRI endorsement: employing or hosting institutions (Global Talent visa)
- Guidance: Pakistan: country policy and information notes
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and leaving care: funding instructions
- Guidance: Visitors and transit: customer service standards
- Guidance: Visa processing times: applications outside the UK
- 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
- Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work? | Sunder Katwala
- ‘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
- ‘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
- ‘Self-defeating’: senior Tories warn Sunak against clampdown on international students
- Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK
- Labour government would halt Rwanda deportations from day one, Starmer says
- ‘Cringeworthy’: what people in Dover think of Labour and Keir Starmer – video
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Tag Archives: Immigration Rules
False representations made in pending application don’t ‘simply disappear’ by varying it to an ILR application
Al-Azad v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 407 (25 April 2024) The Court of Appeal has rejected the argument that the SSHD should not have refused Mr MN Wohhab Al-Azad’s application for indefinite leave to … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Bangladesh, Court of Appeal, Deception, Entrepreneurs, False Statements and Misrepresentations, Immigration Rules, Long Residence, Paragraph 322(5), Proportionality, Section 3C Leave, Tier 1, Tribunals
Tagged Case Law, Court of Appeal, Deception, False Representations, ILR, Immigration Rules, Long Residence, Settlement, Tier 1, Tribunals
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Home Office wins in Supreme Court against Belarusian man with “limbo” status
R (AM (Belarus)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] UKSC 13 (24 April 2024) The Supreme Court has allowed the Home Office’s appeal in the case of AM who was a Belarusian who stayed in “limbo” by … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Crime, Deportation, ECHR, ECtHR, False Statements, Hostile Environment, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Public Interest, Statelessness, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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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
Court of Appeal rejects invitation to treat EUSS family permit application as an EEA permit application
Siddiqa v Entry Clearance Officer [2024] EWCA Civ 248 (14 March 2024) The Court of Appeal has held that the Upper Tribunal had not erred in finding that where the extended family member of an EU national had sought to … Continue reading
Three year delay in making decision on application is lawful
Zhou & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 81 (07 February 2024) The Court of Appeal has held that UT Judge Frances had not erred in refusing a family … Continue reading
Appendix FM and changes of £29,000 and £38,700 to MIR
“MIR”, an acronym for “Minimum Income Requirement”, has become a menacing buzzword in the hostile world of UK immigration law which is required as annual income to sponsor a spouse. From 11 April 2024, MIR will be increased from £18,600 … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix FM, Article 8, Immigration Rules, Spouses, UKSC
Tagged Appendix FM, Article 8, ECHR, Immigration Rules, UK Supreme Court
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Court of Appeal quashes Upper Tribunal’s article 8 decision in deception case
Kaur v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 1353 (17 November 2023) In this case, the Court of Appeal remitted to the Upper Tribunal an Indian national’s claim based on the right to respect for family … Continue reading
Court of Appeal: ‘Very significant obstacles to integration’ is an objective test
NC v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 1379 (22 November 2023) The Court of Appeal has held that the First-tier Tribunal had erred in its application of the “very significant obstacles to integration” test set … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Tribunals
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Tribunals
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SSHD’s Rwanda policy appeal dismissed by Supreme Court
R (on the application of AAA (Syria) & Ors) v SSHD [2023] UKSC 42 (15 November 2023) In this judgment, unanimously dismissing the SSHD’s appeal, the Supreme Court agreed with the Court of Appeal’s conclusion that the Rwanda policy is … Continue reading
MQM London member wins in Court of Appeal
WAS (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 894 (26 July 2023) In a difficult case, Elisabeth Laing LJ allowed the appeal of “WAS” against the dismissal of his asylum claim by the Upper Tribunal … Continue reading
Tier 1 (Investor) Migrant: Supreme Court stresses ‘unblinkered’ approach to analysing facts
Wang & Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 21 (21 June 2023) The Supreme Court has allowed the SSHD’s appeal, and restored her decision to refuse leave to remain to … Continue reading
Winning for JO: An Afghani ADR case
Obtaining entry clearance for an Adult Dependant Relative (ADR) is a difficult task these days. The rules are stringent and applications are routinely refused and appeals take ages to get heard. But in credible cases it is possible to secure … Continue reading
Posted in ADR, Afghanistan, Appendix FM, Article 8, Court of Appeal, Deception, ECHR, ECOs, Immigration Rules, Pakistan, Proportionality, Public Interest, Tribunals
Tagged ADR, Afghanistan, Article 8, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Tribunals
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Court of Appeal on credibility, standard of proof and appellate court’s role
MAH (Egypt) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 216 (28 February 2023) The central issue in this appeal was whether the Upper Tribunal was entitled to reach the conclusion that the appellant’s claim for international … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Credibility, Egypt, Fairness, High Court of Australia, Immigration Rules, Refugee Convention, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Egypt, Immigration Rules, UK Supreme Court
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Court of Appeal rejects wide reading of Chikwamba principle
Alam & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 30 (19 January 2023) The Court of Appeal found in these cases that Chikwamba is only relevant if the SSHD refuses an application on the narrow procedural … Continue reading
Policy of removing asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful
AAA v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Rwanda) [2022] EWHC 3230 (Admin) (19 December 2022) The High Court has held that the SSHD’s policy of removing asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their asylum claims determined there rather … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Article 3, Asylum, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Israel, Judicial Review, MEDP, Parliament, Refugee Convention, Removals, Rwanda
Tagged Asylum, ECHR, Human Rights Act 1998, Immigration Rules, Judicial Review, MEDP, Rwanda, UK Supreme Court, UNHCR
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