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UK Visa and Immigration Application Services to Resume
By Paul Richmond - Immigration Barrister

Somewhat paradoxically, as the UK gets ready to impose a 14-day quarantine period on most travellers arriving in the UK from 8 June 2020 (see our earlier posts here and here), the Home Office and its partners...

 have announced that they are starting to resume UK visa and immigration application services again. Applications for leave to remain, settlement and citizenship in the UK Some UK Visa and Citizenship...

Public Funds Part 3: Change of conditions to allow access to public funds
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister

In this third post, following on from Public Funds Part 1: Public Funds and Coronavirus and Public Funds Part 2: Claiming Child Benefit we consider how to apply for a change of conditions to allow access to public...

 funds, for individuals who are in the UK with limited leave to enter or remain subject to a condition of having no recourse to public funds. No Recourse To Public Funds Condition Paragraph GEN.1.11A of...

A Guide to UK Visa and Citizenship Appointments
By Caspar Latham - Legal Associate

What is UKVCAS? UKVCAS stands for ‘UK Visa and Citizenship Application Services’. It is the system for processing immigration applications made from within the UK for leave to remain, including all extension...

 applications, and any switching between visas, as well as applications for both settlement and citizenship. What are “core service points”? There are three different types of UKVCAS centres, or...

Applying for further leave with no valid passport
By Geraldine Peterson - Immigration Barrister

There are a number of reasons why an applicant cannot provide a valid passport when making an application to the Home Office for further leave to remain in the UK.  Examples of this might be that an applicant...

 has come into the UK clandestinely without ever having had a passport or was trafficked, and was subsequently recognised as a refugee.  In such cases obtaining a passport from the authorities in the home...

Home Office Guidance on Coronavirus
By Zoe Bantleman - Immigration Barrister

The Home Office has published Guidance on the Coronavirus on 17 February 2020 for those unable to return to China from the UK, due to circumstances outside of their control.  If you are in the UK, and your immigration...

 status is affected by the coronavirus outbreak the guidance states that “most people” will receive an “automatic extension of their visa until 31 March 2020”. Coronavirus Guidance for Chinese...

Overstaying and applying for further leave to remain
By Olivia Waddell - Legal Associate

When it comes to overstaying, prevention is better than cure. Overstaying in the UK is a criminal offence, and without leave in the UK, you do not have the right to study or work and you are at risk of...

 removal. You are also exposed to the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ for overstayers, which means restrictions on the ability to rent accommodation, open a bank account, drive and access medical treatment.   It is...

Why does my BRP expire on 31/12/2024?
By Paul Richmond - Immigration Barrister

If you have been granted indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the past few years, you will probably have been issued with a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) with an expiry date of 31 December 2024. From 1 January...

 2020, applicants who are granted five years limited leave to remain have also started to receive BRP’s endorsed with an expiry date of 31 December 2024.  If this applies to you, you may be concerned that...

What is a Biometric Residence Permit?
By Wendy Barnes - Legal Associate

A Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) is an 86mm x 54mm polycarbonate card containing a chip to make it more secure against forgery and abuse.  A Biometric Residence Permit is proof of a right to reside, work...

 or study in the UK.  A Biometric Residence Permit can also be used as a form of identity, for example to open a UK bank account.  Information held on a Biometric Residence Permit A Biometric Residence...

Curtailment of leave to remain
By Zarina Rahman - Immigration Barrister

The Home Office has wide ranging statutory powers that allow caseworkers to curtail a migrant’s limited leave to remain in the UK.  These statutory powers are supplemented by guidance on curtailment of...

 leave which tells caseworkers whether to curtail leave and when to consider using discretion. What does curtailment of leave mean?  The Home Office has power to curtail i.e. reduce or cancel, your existing leave...

Travel outside the UK while waiting for an immigration decision
By Paul Richmond - Immigration Barrister

Recent changes to the immigration application process through UK Visa and Citizenship Application Services (UKVCAS) enables applicants to keep their passport while they wait for a decision on their...

 immigration application.  In this post, we look at the impact of travel outside the UK while waiting for a decision on a pending immigration application. Travel outside the UK while waiting for an immigration decision...

Court of Appeal considers failure to enrol biometrics
By Zoe Bantleman - Immigration Barrister

In R (on the application of) Jayaraman v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2545 (15 November 2018), Peter Jackson LJ (with Sharp LJ’s agreement) considered the requirement to provide...

 biometric information for an application for indefinite leave to remain and the grave consequences of failing to so do.  Jayaraman’s failure to enrol his biometrics led to the invalidity of his...

Grenfell Tower Update - Further Guidance
By Alexandra Pease - Immigration Barrister

A previous blog Home Office sets out Grenfell Tower Policy for survivors and directly affected individuals, 6 July 2017, analysed the directions given to caseworkers in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in West...

 London in June of this year. Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis announced an update on 11 October 2017: “The government believes it is right to provide this specific group of survivors greater certainty...
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