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Latest Migration Statistics Quarterly Report
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The Office for National Statistics has published its latest Migration Statistics Quarterly Report, which contains provisional estimates of international migration for the year ending December 2013. The report...

gives an interesting insight into UK immigration trends, and shows that 526,000 people immigrated to the UK over the period and 314,000 people emigrated from the UK, leaving a net migration figure of...

Case Comment: R (on the application of Fitzroy George) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] UKSC 28
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The Supreme Court recently handed down its judgment in the case of R (on the application of Fitzroy George) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] UKSC 28. This case concerns the provisions of...

s5(1) of the Immigration Act 1971 (“s5(1)”) and overturns the Court of Appeal judgment in the matter: [2012] EWCA Civ 1362. The issue was whether a successful appeal against a decision to refuse to...

Immigration Bill Becomes Law
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The Government’s Immigration Bill received Royal Assent on 14th May and has now become law. The Immigration Act 2014 brings a number of fundamental changes to the system of immigration in the UK, including: Cutting...

the number of immigration decisions that can be appealed from 17 to 4, while allowing the UK to return certain harmful individuals before their appeals are heard if there is no risk of serious...

Upper Tribunal delivers first reported determination on Tier 1 Entrepreneur category
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The Upper Tribunal has today promulgated its first decision concerning an application for leave to remain as a Tier 1 Entrepreneur migrant under the points-based system. In Shebl (Entrepreneur: proof of contracts)...

[2014] UKUT 216 (IAC), the Upper Tribunal (Vice President Mr C M G Ockelton and Upper Tribunal Judge Grubb) held that the requirement to prove the existence of a “contract” in paragraph 41-SD...

Many Refugees are Failed by the System
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Failures in the system are causing homelessness and destitution amongst refugees in the UK, according to a new report from the Refugee Council. The report, entitled ‘28 Days Later: the experiences of new refugees...

in the UK’, examined the experiences of new refugees between being granted refugee status and the end of their Asylum Support. Home Office policy currently states that accommodation and cash support...

Balance of Competences Review
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On 12 July 2012, the Foreign Secretary launched the ‘Balance of Competences Review’ in Parliament taking forward the Coalition commitment to examine the balance of competences between the UK and the EU.

On 12 July 2012, the Foreign Secretary launched the ‘Balance of Competences Review’ in Parliament taking forward the Coalition commitment to examine the balance of competences between the UK and the EU.

Briefing on the new family returns process
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As the Government seeks to enshrine the new family returns process onto the statute books as part of the 2014 Immigration Bill, Barnardo’s has published a briefing on what is working and what can be improved...

in the returns process. The briefing is based on the experience Barnardo’s has gained while providing welfare and social care services to families within the Home Office’s pre-departure accommodation,...

First Fundamental Review of the First-tier Tribunal (IAC)
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HM Courts and Tribunals Service have recently published their findings from a Fundamental Review of the First-Tier Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has been conducted differently to previous reviews, having...

been undertaken by both the judicial and administrative arms of the First Tier Tribunal (IAC) Previous reviews of the Immigration Appellate Authority and the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal have focused...

Children left in limbo by asylum system
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Children who arrive alone in the UK seeking asylum face a struggle to get their voices heard in a system designed to deal with adults, according to a recent report by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. Children...

and young people who claim asylum are placed in the care system until they turn 18 but if their claims fail they are then required to leave the UK. This interrupts their education and disrupts...

Government’s IT Border Security System Can’t Measure Immigration Levels
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The Home Office have admitted their e-Borders security system will provide ‘insufficient’ data to measure levels of immigration. The system, reported to have cost between £500m – £1bn, is designed...

to check people entering and leaving the UK and has taken more than 10 years to develop. The Home Office made the admission in its response to a report by the House of Commons’ Public Administration Select...

Update on the challenge to the financial requirement under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules
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UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has today released guidance regarding applications that are affected by the financial requirement imposed by Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules, requiring applicants to provide...

evidence of a gross annual income of at least £18,600. UKVI state that they are continuing to put on hold decisions in some applications for entry clearance/leave to remain as a partner or child until the...

Immigration and Recruitment for Technology Start-ups
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Technology Start-ups have been given massive government incentives to flock to the UK, however according to a group of experts it is the government’s own policies...

on immigration that are stopping the UK taking its place as a world-leading hub of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.Exceptional Talent
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