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Travel outside the UK while waiting for an immigration decision
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 Under the new immigration application system, if you apply for further leave to remain or...
Home Office Exercise of Discretion and Technical Errors
to consider such a grant [outside of the Rules] when expressly asked to do so and, if but briefly, deal with any material relied upon by an applicant in support” [39]. The Court of Appeal was bound by this principle in the recent case of Asiweh v...
Court of Appeal considers failure to enrol biometrics
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 application and after the expiry of his limited leave to remain he was rendered an overstayer. The...
4 things you should know about the Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules, published 11 October 2018
and their family members to obtain UK immigration status Appendix EU to the Immigration Rules came into force on 28 August 2018 and provided a basis for resident EU citizens and their family members (and the family members of certain British citizens) to...
Mansur (immigration adviser's failings: Article 8) Bangladesh [2018] UKUT 00274 (IAC)
the precedent FP (Iran) & Anor v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 13, which established that fairness demands that an applicant or appellant should not be held accountable for the failures of her immigration lawyer in the context of asylum, I take this as the...
Court of Appeal considers delay in Home Office decision-making
submitted after 1 January 2014. The standards have largely remained the same, as follows: Straight forward applications from outside the UK: Non-settlement visa applications: 90% to be decided within 3 weeks; Non-settlement visa applications: 98% to be...
UK visa application fees continue to shoot up with latest hikes
of inflation, raising concerns about the profits which the Home Office is making from visa application fees. A naturalisation application has now risen to £1,330, with an application for indefinite leave to remain going up to £2,389. In some cases,...
Visit visas - avoiding refusal for not showing a ‘genuine intention to visit’
to have a ‘genuine intention to visit’ as follows: ‘V 4.2 The applicant must satisfy the decision maker that they are a genuine visitor. This means that the applicant: (a) will leave the UK at the end of their visit; and (b) will not live...
The Meaning of ‘Sole Responsibility’ - Is TD (Yemen) Still Fit For Purpose?
or parent). The leading authority on the meaning of sole responsibility is TD (Paragraph 297(i)(e): “sole responsibility”) Yemen [2006] UKAIT 00049. In this case, heard over 10 years ago, the Upper Tribunal were considering an older version of...
Changes to the Appendix FM English Language Requirement
Rules HC667. These changes are set to take effect from 1 May 2017.A2 English Language Requirement for the family route Are a national of a majority English-speaking country; Hold a degree taught or researched in English; or Are exempted from the...
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