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A Guide to UK Visa and Citizenship Appointments
By Richmond Chambers -

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...

Police Registration - What You Need To Know
By Alexandra Pease - Barrister Partner

Conditions can be attached to a person’s permission to enter or stay, and this includes a condition requiring a person to register with the police when in the UK.  In this post we look at the requirement to register...

 with the police, how to register with the police, where to register with the police and the potential consequences of failing to register with the police. Requirement to Register with the Police Part...

What Is Leave Outside the Immigration Rules?
By Alexandra Pease - Barrister Partner

In this post we examine the possibility of being granted Leave to Remain Outside the Immigration Rules and the possibility of being granted Indefinite Leave to Remain based on the most exceptional compelling...

 compassionate grounds. Leave To Remain Outside the Immigration Rules (LOTR) Guidance The Home Office policy document entitled Leave outside the Immigration Rules guidance, Version 1.0, dated 27 February...

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

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...

Home Office Guidance on Coronavirus
By Richmond Chambers -

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...

Court of Appeal considers failure to enrol biometrics
By Richmond Chambers -

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 - Barrister Partner

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...

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

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 the statutory right that an individual has to obtain a copy of the information. In the immigration context, a Subject Access Request allows an individual to...

Home Office possession of a passport indicates that an immigration application was made
By Richmond Chambers -

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

 on the balance of probabilities, an application for leave to remain as a Tier 4 (General) Student had been made prior to the expiry of the Appellant’s leave.

Evidential flexibility in leave to remain applications
By Richmond Chambers -

In SH (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department[2016] EWCA Civ 426 (18 February 2016) the Court of Appeal considered whether the Home Office’s former “evidential flexibility” policy was broader...

 and more flexible than the “evidential flexibility” rule contained at paragraph 245AA of the Immigration Rules, which provides an opportunity for PBS applicants to produce additional evidence in...
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