By Maria Martha Gerdes and Samuel Hartwig, Verfassungsblog,
Last month, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in the case of Johansen v. Denmark on the deprivation of nationality and expulsion due to terrorist offences. The Court rejected the applicant's complaint of an infringement of his right to private and family life under Art. 8…
QH (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWCA Civ 421 (01 April 2022)
The Court of Appeal has held that a mere declaration was not just satisfaction for the SSHD's admitted violations of the rights—pursuant to article 8 of the ECHR—of a minor Afghan asylum…
If you have been living continuously and lawfully in the UK for 10 years, you may be eligible to apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) on the basis of long residence. This post is designed to give some practical tips when preparing for a long residence ILR application.
Know the…
The High Potential Individual (HPI) route is similar to the Graduate route but offered to recent graduates of the top ranking universities outside the UK. This route opens on 30 May 2022.
High Potential Individuals will be given permission to stay for two or three years depending on…
On 25 March 2022, the UK High Court ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully and breached human rights and data protection laws by operating a secret, blanket policy of seizing, retaining and extracting data from the mobile phones of asylum seekers arriving by small boat to UK shores…
The Home Office has recently published information about civil penalties that were imposed between 1 July to 30 September 2021. Civil penalties are imposed on organisations which have employed an individual who does not have permission to work. If found to be employing workers who do not…
The UK government has responded to people fleeing Ukraine with a gulf between welcoming rhetoric and miserly, inflexible policy that would be laughable if it were not so urgent and so familiar. Since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly three weeks ago, 2.7 million people are estimated to have…
In 2021, the controversial 'Nationality and Borders Bill' gained significant backing by UK politicians. The bill seeks to further persecute people seeking asylum in the UK. I struggled to comprehend how the UK could justify such a punitive asylum process. Even without this bill, the UK…
On 29 March 2022 at 2300 GMT, the route for British Citizens to make applications under the EU Settlement Scheme for family permits for their family members to return with or join them in the UK will close.
British Citizens Returning to the UK With Family Members After Residing in the EU…
By Rob McNeil and Madeleine Sumption via The Conversation,
One of the most immediate consequences of conflicts and crisis is often displacement, as people seek safety. The crisis in Ukraine means substantial numbers of people may flee the country to seek refuge overseas.
It’s difficult to predict how many Ukrainians will seek asylum in the UK.…
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