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Private Life Exception to Deportation: Domestic Framework Insights

In This Article 1. Introduction: The Private Life Exception to Deportation 2. Eligibility and Criteria  3. Lawful Residence Under the Private Life Exception: Meeting the First Requirement 4. Key Factors in Assessing...

Domestic Deportation Framework: Key Provisions & Considerations

In This Article 1. Understanding the Domestic Deportation Framework: An Overview 2. Deportation Under the Immigration Act 1971: Exemptions and Conditions 3. The Evolution of Deportation Law: From Discretion to Duty 4....

Deportation Protections for Long-Resident EU Nationals

In This Article 1. Introduction to Deportation Protections for European (EU) Nationals 2. Deportation Protections for EU Nationals Under UK Law 3. The Bouchereau Test and Deep Public Revulsion 4. Case Background:...

UK Supreme Court Considers Deportation (Again)

In HA (Iraq), RA (Iraq) and AA (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 22, the Supreme Court was called to consider one more time the statutory provisions of section 117C of the Nationality,...

Is the public interest in deporting foreign offenders a ‘fixed quality'?

In this post, we consider the approach that the courts have adopted when considering the public interest in deporting foreign offenders. Section 117 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 Section 117A(1)...

Deportation - Part 3: Detention

In the first entry in this series of blogs, we clarified what deportation is, how deportation procedures can be engaged, and what the Secretary of State (via the Home Office) can do to enforce their decision...

Deportation - Part 2: Appeals and Judicial Review

In the first entry in this series of blogs, we clarified what deportation is, how deportation procedures can be engaged, and what the Secretary of State (via the Home Office) can do to enforce their decision to...

Deportation - Part 1: An Overview

In ensuring the myriad of laws, rules and policies that make up the UK’s immigration system have bite, the Secretary of State is afforded the power to remove foreign nationals to their countries of origin....

Deportation Update

In NA (Pakistan) v SSHD [2016] EWCA Civ 662, the Court of Appeal corrected the obvious drafting error in section 117C(3) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as amended by the Immigration Act 2014),...

Deportation and the application of Zambrano

The European Court of Justice will soon make clear the basis on which Zambrano carers can be deported in answering questions referred to it by the Upper Tribunal (IAC) of the UK and Supreme Court of Spain. Advocate...

Zambrano and being compelled to leave the EU

Ordinarily, UK immigration law governs the rights of entry and leave to remain of non-EU family members of UK nationals and the Immigration Rules, with their strict financial requirements, apply. Even though British...

Independent Review of Welfare in Detention

An independent review of policies and procedures affecting the welfare of those held in immigration removal centres has been announced by the Home Secretary. The purpose of the review is to identify whether improvements...