By Dunja Mijatović, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe,
Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom we have never seen —
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs — between —
For Stranger — Strangers do not mourn (Emily Dickinson)
A few lines of poetry hang on the entrance of the graveyard of the island of Lampedusa, Italy's…
People fleeing across borders is a hallmark of armed conflict. We first saw millions of Ukrainians flee the country when the Russians invaded Ukraine in February this year. Now there are reports of hundreds of thousands of Russians fleeing their country in order to avoid Russia's first…
Holding a sponsor licence puts a company in a special position of trust with the Home Office. By virtue of being a sponsor, a company is agreeing to monitor migrant activity and help the Home Office to ensure that the immigration system is not abused. When a company loses its sponsor…
While possibly marking a step in the right direction towards more political accountability, the controversial resignation of Frontex's former Executive Director, Fabrice Leggeri, leaves open the question about the effective judicial protection for migrants interacting with the agency. A…
This decision, handed down by Swift J in the High Court, concerns the requirements for fairness in local authority age assessments for asylum seekers and the correct approach to be adopted.
Facts
The claimant, a Sudanese national, arrived in the UK on 21 May 2021 and made an application…
Immigration judges often need to conduct a balancing exercise to assess where to strike the balance between an individual's Article 8 right to respect for private and family life and the public interest in maintaining effective immigration control by removing a foreign national to their…
R (Iyieke) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWCA Civ 1147 (11 August 2022)
The Court of Appeal has held that Mr Victormills Onyekachi Iyieke, who had applied for indefinite leave to remain ("ILR") on the ground of 10 years' continuous lawful residence in the UK and who…
The Commonwealth Games has put the Commonwealth in the spotlight again this year. Prior to the Games, it was the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 which was held in June in Kigali, which brought into sharp focus the relationship between the UK and the African…
On 20 July 2022, the UK Supreme Court gave its judgment in the three joined appeals of HA (Iraq), RA (Iraq) and AA (Nigeria) [2022] UKSC 22. The full judgment can be found here. These were all deportation appeals decided by the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal found in favour of the…
In the past two years the UK immigration system has undergone a range of fundamental changes that can often seem confusing and contradictory. Popular visa routes have been closed, while new ones have been opened. Some new visas are very restrictive, and only applicable for people who have…
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