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Government issues guidance for undocumented Commonwealth citizens
By Richmond Chambers -

Following a statement to parliament on 23 April 2018 by Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and intense media scrutiny, the Home office has issued guidance to all Commonwealth citizens who are long-term residents of the...

UK and are currently without appropriate documentation to prove their status. During the statement, Amber Rudd also announced the Home Office will be putting in place lasting measures for those of the...

Immigration Lawyers Must Focus On Facts Not Law, Says Court Of Appeal
By Richmond Chambers -

Yesterday the Court of Appeal considered the case of Parveen v The Secretary State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 932, on appeal from an oral permission hearing in the Upper Tribunal to judicially review...

the decision. Underhill LJ’s final paragraph expressed the concern that permeates the entirety of his judgment and which is a careful warning for advisers and individuals alike: “this Court sees too...

Gove declares UK 'most immigrant friendly' country
By Richmond Chambers -

In the face of fears that the UK could virtually be shutting its doors to immigrants following Brexit, Michael Gove – the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – has declared that...

the country is more friendly to immigrants than any other country in the European Union. The Brexit supporter took to the BBC’s Today programme to staunchly deny the fact that communities had become...

Section 3C leave & Judicial review - Has it come to an end or not?
By Alex Papasotiriou - Immigration Barrister

In the current version (8.0) of her policy, titled “Leave extended by section 3C (and leave extended by section 3D in transitional cases)”, published on 6 March 2017, the Secretary of State for the Home Department...

mentions on four occasions that “section 3C leave can exist only where it is a seamless continuation of leave, either extant leave or section 3C leave.” This is mentioned in the context of out of...

Government issues response to Home Affairs Committee report on immigration
By Richmond Chambers -

The UK government has issued its response to the Home Affairs Committee’s report ‘Immigration policy: basis for building consensus’. Following Brexit, the committee set about reshaping the debate...

on immigration in light of the new landscape which lies ahead for the country. Among the recommendations of ‘Immigration policy: basis for building consensus’ were that; immigration policy...

Richmond Chambers shortlisted in the Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018
By Richmond Chambers -

At Richmond Chambers we’re excited to have been shortlisted in the Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018, in the ABS Innovation category. The awards, which are hosted by Legal Week in association with its sister...

titles The American Lawyer and Legaltech News, will take place on 25 May at The Brewery in the City of London. They set out to celebrate the contribution made by lawyers and non-fee-earning staff to...

Dealing With A Tier 2 and 5 Sponsor Licence Suspension
By Richmond Chambers -

All Tier 2 and Tier 5 Sponsors can expect at least one compliance visit from the Home Office during the lifetime of their Sponsor Licence. The purpose of the compliance visit is to check that a sponsor can meets...

its sponsor compliance duties. If the Home Office is not satisfied that the sponsor is complying with its duties then it may suspend the Sponsor Licence with a view to permanently revoking it. Before the...

BSB publishes Vulnerability Good Practice Guide (Immigration Clients) for Immigration Barristers
By Richmond Chambers -

Richmond Chambers has been working with the Bar Standards Board to help produce a user guide for barristers working with vulnerable adult immigration clients, released this week. The Vulnerability Good Practice Guide...

aims to help barristers to identify, assess and manage client vulnerabilities in line with good practice. This guide was a response to the recommendations made by the BSB’s Immigration Thematic Review...

Limit hit by Tier 2 CoS for 4th month in a row
By Richmond Chambers -

UK Tier 2 Visa Restricted Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are important to businesses who wish to employ the services of non-EU/EEA nationals in the country. But judging by findings from the March Tier 2 visa...

allocation meeting, they are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. From December 2017 to March 2018, the allocation of UK Tier 2 Visa Restricted CoSs hit its limit in each month – representing a...

UK visa application fees continue to shoot up with latest hikes
By Richmond Chambers -

New fees for visa applications in the UK came into effect earlier in the month (April 6).  With a 4% increase across a wide range of categories, needless to say, there are some unhappy people about.  The...

main gripe is that the 4% increase is way above the rate of inflation, raising concerns about the profits which the Home Office is making from visa application fees. A naturalisation application has now risen to...

Chen parents, self-sufficiency and illegal work - request for Preliminary Ruling
By Richmond Chambers -

The decision in Chen C-200/02 established that self-sufficient EEA national children have the right to be accompanied by their primary carer, where they would be unable to remain in the host Member State if...

the primary carer were required to leave. This has been incorporated into the EEA Regulations at regulation 16. Such persons have a derivative right to reside and may apply for a Derivative Residence Card. The...

A Harsher Approach? Four changes in the revised Guidance on Family and Private Life applications
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Office issued new Family and Private Life Guidance on 23 February 2018 for applications for leave to remain on the basis of family life as a partner or parent, or on the basis of private life, on a 10 year...

route to settlement. Although the corresponding Rules have not changed, the guidance has nonetheless raised some concerns that harsher decisions could now be made, especially given the case law in recent...
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