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Legal Implications of Doubling the Family Visa Income Requirement

As many readers will be aware, part of the Home Secretary’s recently announced “five-point plan” on immigration included a significant increase to the minimum income threshold for family visas under Appendix...

Supreme Court Rwanda Judgment: Government's Rwanda Policy Is Unlawful

In a unanimous decision by Lord Reed and Lord Lloyd-Jones, with whom Lord Hodge, Lord Briggs and Lord Sales agreed, the Supreme Court has declared the government’s Rwanda policy unlawful. In this post, I...

UK Supreme Court Considers Deportation (Again)

In HA (Iraq), RA (Iraq) and AA (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 22, the Supreme Court was called to consider one more time the statutory provisions of section 117C of the Nationality,...

Should Defective Court Orders Be Followed?

The Supreme Court answered with a resounding yes, in R (on the application of Majera (formerly SM (Rwanda)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 46. Facts Of The Case The case involved...

A v. SSHD: Supreme Court decides the standards for judicial review of public policies

On 30 July 2021, the Supreme Court, of the same constitution, handed down two important decisions: R (on the application of A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 37 and R (on the application...

Do I have time to find a new Tier 2 Sponsor?

On 23 October 2020 the Supreme Court in R (Pathan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 41 held that the Home Office had acted unfairly by not informing a Tier 2 General skilled worker...

Supreme Court ruling in Patel on Zambrano Carers

The Supreme Court delivered its long anticipated judgment on Zambrano carers in Patel v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] UKSC 59 on 16 December 2019.  Background The appeal, consisting of two...

Supreme Court hands down judgment in MM (Lebanon) minimum income requirement case

Exactly 12 months after starting to hear the case, the Supreme Court has today handed down its long-awaited judgment in R (on the application of MM (Lebanon) (AP) (Appellant) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2017] UKSC 10.Facts

Supreme Court decision on section 3C: Need for rationalisation and simplification of Immigration Rules

The matter of R (on the application of Mirza, Iqbal and Ehsan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 63 was heard by the Supreme Court on 19 October 2016...