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Family From Gaza Settle In UK Following Ukraine Scheme Application: A Legal Loophole?
By Jasmine Theilgaard - Immigration Barrister

In This Article 1. Introduction: A Tribunal Decision at the Centre of Political Debate 2. The Appellants’ Background and Entry Clearance Application 3. Home Office Refusal: No Resettlement Route for Palestinians 4....

 First-Tier Tribunal: Recognising a Human Rights Claim 5. First-Tier Tribunal Decision: Balancing Family Life and Public Interest 6. Grounds of Appeal: Alleged Errors in the First-Tier Tribunal’s...

Client Success: Overcoming Challenges in an Unmarried Partner Visa Appeal
By Richmond Chambers -

At Richmond Chambers, we pride ourselves on offering dedicated, strategic, and comprehensive support to our clients. Recently, Jasmine Theilgaard, Immigration Barrister at Richmond Chambers, successfully represented...

 a client in a complex appeal concerning their right to remain in the UK based on their relationship with a British partner. This case presented several significant challenges, requiring meticulous...

Family Life in Adult Dependent Relative Visa Applications
By Richmond Chambers -

In cases where an individual is unable to satisfy the requirements of the Adult Dependent Relative Rules, decision-makers must consider whether the individual’s Article 8 right to ‘family life’ is engaged....

 However, a complication that arises here is that, even though two individuals are related, and might very well share a close, personal relationship to each other, family life is not automatically engaged or...

Family Life as a Partner Based on Insurmountable Obstacles
By Rosanna Atkinson - Legal Associate

Partner applications under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules contain strict eligibility requirements for a grant of leave to remain on the 5-year route to settlement. If a partner is unable to meet the strict...

 requirements of the 5-year partner route they may be able to rely on the exception set out in EX.1. of Appendix FM to extend their stay and eventually settle in the UK on the 10-year route.  Article 8 of...

Leave to Remain Granted on the Private Life Route
By Richmond Chambers -

In August 2022, Alexandra Pease and Alex Papasotiriou, working together with our team of legal associates, assisted a client who had been without leave since 2014, and who had been unsuccessful in regularising...

 his stay, to secure 30 months/2.5 years leave to remain on the private life route, placing him on a 10-year route to settlement.   Background  In November 2021, our client, a 32 year old Bangladeshi...

Recent Changes to 10 Year Family Settlement Routes
By Richmond Chambers -

There have been a number of recent changes to the Immigration Rules relating to Private Life and Family Life applications and Settlement under these routes.  In previous posts we have focused on changes made...

 to the Private Life route for leave to remain and settlement.  This article provides a summary of the new Rules for settlement on the basis of Family Life and continuous residence.  Appendix Settlement Family...

Family life depends on the substance of the relationship, not the form
By Richmond Chambers -

The Court of Appeal has helpfully confirmed in the case of Uddin v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 338 that the existence of family life depends on the substance of the relationship,...

 not the form [§ 23].   Background The case involved a Bangladeshi national born in Bangladesh on 8 December 1999. He claimed that he had left home at the age of six after being mistreated and that he...

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