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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Iraq: country policy and information notes December 9, 2016
- Guidance: Algeria: country policy and information notes December 9, 2016
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students November 13, 2013
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers November 13, 2013
- Collection: Archive: Immigration Rules January 22, 2014
- Policy paper: Immigration Rules archive: 1 May 2017 to 9 August 2017 September 21, 2017
- Guidance: Sponsor guidance appendix F: Tier 5 (International Agreement) April 6, 2013
- Guidance: Bangladesh: country policy and information notes December 9, 2016
- Collection: Detention and reporting (asylum instructions) June 11, 2014
- Guidance: Asylum claims in detention September 19, 2017
UK Immigration Law Blog
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- Integration is Multidimensional: ‘Generic Factors’ Count in Calculating Integrative Links in Deportation Cases
- Statelessness: Ethnic Cleansing and the Rohingya
- The Bad Citizen and EU Law
- Zambrano Carers: ‘Benefits Tourism’ and EU Law
- The Home Office Must Prove Abuse Of EU Law Rights
- Aligning the Immigration Rules with MM (Lebanon)
- Off the Hook: New Guidance on HOPOs and WCOs
- Inherent Jurisdiction: Article 8 and Adoption
- Case Preview: Sadovska and another (Appellants) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) (Scotland)
- ‘Human Marketplace’: New Libya Country Guidance
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- Global Corporate Law
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York September 9, 2017 mkp
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown September 3, 2017 mkp
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight August 25, 2017 mkp
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards August 21, 2017 mkp
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court August 17, 2017 mkp
- Andrew Bailey on the Death of LIBOR August 2, 2017 mkp
- Early Redemption of ‘Cocos’: Win for LBG in Supreme Court June 26, 2016 mkp
- “Land Banks” and Collective Investment Schemes: Supreme Court on s.235, FSMA May 6, 2016 mkp
- Supreme Court on the ‘Houdini Taxpayer’ April 24, 2016 mkp
- Catalyst for Change: Towards a Model of Conduct Costs in Pakistan April 24, 2016 mkp
- Pakistan Horizon
- Seven Decades of Publishing September 22, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- The Rohingya Tragedy September 22, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- Who Am I: Understanding Pakistan’s Political Dynamics? September 21, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- A Change of Approach is Needed in the Study of Indo-Pak Relations September 3, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam September 3, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- The Indus Waters Treaty and the Need to Broaden its Scope to Mitigate Climate Change and Global Warming August 28, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- Panama Papers Scandal: Disqualifying Nawaz Sharif for Deception is Fair July 30, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- Dr. Muhammad Reza Kazimi: U.S. – Pakistan Relations: The Downside July 29, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- M.A. Shiwani: Democratic Witch Hunts July 24, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- M.A. Shiwani: A New Weapon to Fight the War on Terror July 19, 2017 pakistanhorizon
- Law and Democracy Blog
- Dr Masuma Hasan: In Memory of the Legendary Fatehyab Ali Khan, Federal Urdu University, 30 September 2015 October 15, 2015 mkp
- Honouring Fatehyab Ali Khan: The 2015 Debate September 28, 2015 mkp
- Happy Birthday Fatehyab Ali Khan May 19, 2015 mkp
- Voices of Resistance and Dissent in the Politics of Pakistan April 10, 2015 mkp
- Mahmood Shaam Remembers Fatehyab March 1, 2015 mkp
- Dr Masuma Hasan: In Memory of Fatehyab Ali Khan: I.A. Rehman’s Address on ‘The Politics of Dissent’ January 27, 2015 mkp
- State’s Anti-India Posture Caused Gradual Transfer of Power to Military January 26, 2015 mkp
- Objectives Resolution Bade Farewell To Quaid’s Ideals: I.A. Rehman January 26, 2015 mkp
- In Memory of Fatehyab Ali Khan: ‘The Politics of Dissent in Pakistan’ January 26, 2015 mkp
- Elite Pakistani Judiciary Unapproachable For Common Man February 26, 2014 mkp
UK Immigration Law Blog
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- Illegal immigration? Banks don’t even tackle slavery and trafficking | Prem Sikka September 23, 2017 Prem Sikka
- Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck review – humanising migration September 23, 2017 Eileen Battersby
- Head of G4S detention centre quits after abuse allegations September 22, 2017 Caroline Davies
- Brexit talks: how things stand after May's Florence speech September 22, 2017 Seán Clarke
- Home Office wrongly denying people bank accounts in 10% of cases September 22, 2017 Alan Travis Home affairs editor
- UK banks to check 70m bank accounts in search for illegal immigrants September 21, 2017 Alan Travis Home affairs editor
- More than a million of Europe's asylum seekers left in limbo September 20, 2017 Jon Henley European affairs correspondent
- Dubs scheme refugee children left on hold for a year in Greece September 20, 2017 Amelia Gentleman
- If Amber Rudd can’t explain why she defied the courts, she should go | Charles Falconer September 19, 2017 Charles Falconer
- Asylum seeker thanks judges after return to UK from illegal deportation September 18, 2017 Diane Taylor
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Tag Archives: Pakistan
Statelessness: Ethnic Cleansing and the Rohingya
UNHCR estimates that at least 10 million people around the world are stateless. People who are denied a nationality are automatically disentitled from everyday activities most of us take for granted. The inability to access banking, education, employment and healthcare … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Bangladesh, Brexit, Citizenship and Nationality, Deportation, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, India, Karachi, Myanmar, Pakistan, Persecution, Politics, Racism, Refugee Convention, Rohingya, Statelessness, Terrorism, UKSC, United Nations, United States
Tagged ARSA, Asylum, Children, CRS61, CSSP54, ICC, Pakistan, Rakhine, Rohingya, Terrorism, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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The Home Office Must Prove Abuse Of EU Law Rights
Sadovska & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Scotland) [2017] UKSC 54 (26 July 2017) During these proceedings, the Supreme Court said it was “delighted” to hear its first appeal in Scotland. Without a doubt, the appellants … Continue reading
Posted in Article 12, Article 8, Brexit, Citizens Directive, ECHR, Enforcement, European Union, Permanent Residence, Proportionality, Spouses, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged 2004/38/EC, Article 8, Brexit, European Union, Free Movement, Pakistan, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Asylum and Sexual Orientation: HJ (Iran) Guidance ‘Not Given in a Legal Vacuum’
LC (Albania) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (UNHCR Intervening) [2017] EWCA Civ 351 (09 May 2017) HJ (Iran) [2010] UKSC 31 was a landmark judgment. The Supreme Court held that asylum should not be refused to a … Continue reading
Posted in Ahmadis, Article 3, Asylum, CJEU, ECHR, European Union, Homophobia, Pakistan, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, European Union, Pakistan, Persecution, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Indo-Pak Family is Successful in ‘Pure Article 8 Claims’
CS and Others (Proof of Foreign Law) India [2017] UKUT 199 (IAC)(2 May 2017) Relations are particularly strained between India and Pakistan. Short of an actual war, things could not be worse between the historic rivals. The Indian government maintains … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, ECHR, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, India, Pakistan
Tagged Article 8, Children, ECHR, Expert Evidence, Immigration Rules, Pakistan, Spouses
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Deception and the Immigration Rules: Dishonesty is Necessary for a Document to be ‘False’
Agha v SSHD (False Document) [2017] UKUT 121 (IAC) (21 February 2017) The officials of the Federal Investigation Agency are much maligned in the West. In my encounters with FIA officials, in their role as immigration officers in Pakistani ports, … Continue reading
Lone Women and Ostracism in Pakistan
SM (Lone Women – Ostracism) Pakistan [2016] UKUT 67 (IAC) (2 February 2016) Like his clever creator, Kipling’s fictional character of the orphaned/vagabond Irish immigrant child Kimball O’Hara – the devoted chela (disciple) of a lama – lived in late … Continue reading
Posted in Article 3, Article 8, Asylum, Hale JSC, Immigration Act 2014, Islam, Pakistan, Persecution, Politics, Refugee Convention, s 55 BCIA, Tribunals, Women
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, ECHR, Pakistan, Persecution, Refugee Convention, Tribunals
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Case Preview: Rahmatullah v MoD and FCO
Nabbed by British forces in Iraq – where he was seeking work – in 2004 only to be handed over to the Americans and rendered to Bagram Airbase, Yunus Rahmatullah, a Pakistani national who grew up in the Gulf, was … Continue reading
