Grenfell Tower Update - Further Guidance

A previous blog Home Office sets out Grenfell Tower Policy for survivors and directly affected individuals, 6 July...

Making a Fast-Track Subject Access Request via the Pilot Scheme

An individual is entitled to exercise their right to obtain information that is held about them under the Data Protection Act 1998. This process is known as a Subject Access Request. The ‘subject’ or ‘data subject’ means an individual. ‘Access’ is...

Home Office possession of a passport indicates that an immigration application was made

In  Ufot, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department[2016] EWCA Civ 298 (10 February 2016)  the Court...

Evidential flexibility in leave to remain applications

In SH (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department[2016] EWCA Civ 426 (18 February 2016) the Court of Appeal considered...

Appropriate salary for extending leave to remain as a Tier 2 migrant

In Tukhas (para 245HD(f): "appropriate salary") Russia[2016] UKUT 183 (IAC) (17 March 2016)  the Upper Tribunal...

Applying for a new Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) in a different identity

What happens when you have been granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in one identity and want (or need) to apply...

Section 3C and the Notices Regulations

Section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 provides for an automatic extension of leave while an in-time application is being decided, including while it is being appealed.  on the second day after it was posted if it is sent to a place within the UK on the 28th...

Invalid applications and automatic extensions of leave

On 23 December 2015, the Supreme Court (Lady Hale, Lord Carnwath and Lord Hughes) granted permission to appeal the decision of the...

Upper Tribunal Considers Allegation of Bias

The case of Alubankudi (Appearance of bias) [2015] UKUT 542 was heard at Field House on 16th September 2015 before The President, The Hon. Mr Justice McCloskey and Upper Tribunal Judge Canavan. The decision was promulgated on 23rd September 2015. The case...

Varying an existing immigration application

If you have made a leave to remain application and you want your application to be considered for a grant of leave on a different...

Evidential Flexibility Policy has meaning

Evidential Flexibility Policy has meaning – Manish Mandalia...

The UK’s approach to ‘family life’ between adult children and their parents

In the case of Singh & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department[2015] EWCA Civ 630, the Appellants, two brothers, appealed...