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New UK Visa and Immigration Application Process
By Georgina Griggs - Immigration Barrister

New UK Visa and Immigration Application Process From November 2018, the Home Office will be introducing a new UK visa and immigration application process for in-country immigration applications promising an intuitive,...

 streamlined and faster process. UK Visas and Immigration has set out the changes to the in-country visa and citizenship application process in this helpful presentation which can be accessed here. In...

Home Office decision to embed staff in local authorities faces criticism
By Richmond Chambers -

Home office staff are being embedded within local councils and are sitting in on interviews with destitute migrant families, according to a recent report. The staff are allegedly gathering information on a variety...

 of subjects including the health condition of migrant families and how their children were conceived. Documents unearthed via a freedom of information request revealed that a total of ten London boroughs...

Naturalisation as a British Citizen - A wide discretion
By Richmond Chambers -

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission has given an open judgment in relation to the statutory review of decisions by the Secretary of State to refuse applications for citizenship by relatives of Bashar Al-Assad,...

 in the case of LA, MA, RA, SAA v Secretary of State for the Home Department SN/63, 64, 65 and 67/2015. Section 6(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981 gives the Secretary of State the discretion to...

Durable Partners of EU citizens & Derived Rights
By Stefania Patuto - Immigration Barrister

On 16 October 2018, the Court of Appeal dealt with the potential limitations to rights of durable partner of EU citizens in the case of Secretary of State for the Home Department v Christy [2018] EWCA Civ...

 2378. Background Facts Ms Christy, a US national, came to Slovakia in order to work in Canadian Language School. While in Europe she met Mr Jones, they entered into a relationship in September 2011 and moved to...

Three things graduate recruiters need to know about UK immigration
By Richmond Chambers -

As we move ever closer to the end of 2018, employers are starting to consider what they will do to succeed in 2019 and beyond. And, as part of that planning process, companies are currently putting considerable...

 effort into finalising their graduate programmes. But what do they need to consider? What are the key issues they need to keep in mind – both in terms of people from EU and non-EU countries – to...

How UK immigration detention compares to other countries
By Richmond Chambers -

A recent news story in The Guardian highlighted just how UK immigration detention compares to detention in Europe and elsewhere in the world. It may be surprising to learn the UK is the only EU member...

 state not to place limits on the amount of time people can be kept in detention. The UK’s immigration detention system is one of the largest in Europe, although countries like Australia and the United States...

Supreme Court: The meaning of ‘unduly harsh’ and ‘reasonableness’ in child immigration cases
By Richmond Chambers -

On Wednesday 24th October 2018, the UK Supreme Court tackled the application of the terms, ‘unduly harsh’ and ‘reasonableness’ in child immigration cases in the case of KO (Nigeria) & Others (Appellant)...

 v SSHD [2018] UKSC53. What legislation was in question? Where a person is subject to immigration controls, and is required to be removed, Section 117B lists the points for the court to take into account....

Student's UK visa granted after media backlash
By Richmond Chambers -

The UK has granted a visa for a student to attend an academic conference after public and media outcry following an “absurd” case. Initially, two students from Amsterdam University, whose nationalities...

 are Bosnian and Turkish, had their applications rejected. One was late in submitting part of his paperwork, and the other’s student visa is expiring in December. There was a fear among immigration...

Deportation - Part 2: Appeals and Judicial Review
By Richmond Chambers -

In the first entry in this series of blogs, we clarified what deportation is, how deportation procedures can be engaged, and what the Secretary of State (via the Home Office) can do to enforce their decision to...

 deport an individual. In this entry, we will be taking a closer look at what that individual (of EEA or non-EEA origin) can do to challenge such a decision. Deportation – Pre-Appeal It is important to...

Appeals against deprivation of British citizenship
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister

In an earlier blog post, we covered the scope of the Secretary of State’s statutory power to deprive an individual of their British citizenship. In this post we will explore the scope of an appeal to the First-tier...

 Tribunal against a decision to make a deprivation order (section 40A(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981). In Arusha and Demushi (deprivation of citizenship – delay) [2012] UKUT 80, the Upper...

Home Office inquiry launched into conditions of UK detention centres
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Office is to launch an investigation into allegations of abuse and mistreatment by immigration detention centre staff across the country following legal challenges from human rights groups. Allegations...

 have been made that guards in immigration detention centres are physically and/or verbally abusing detainees and that the needs of vulnerable people are being overlooked or mishandled by staff. One of the...

UK government proposes a single immigration system
By Richmond Chambers -

Immigration laws in the United Kingdom are set to change as the government focuses on offering those migrating from EU and non-EU countries the same rights. Previously, migrants from EU countries enjoyed the freedom...

 of movement in the UK similar to that of British citizens. However, a report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) whose recommendations seem to have been adopted by the government is likely to...
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