By a unanimous decision, the Court of Appeal has allowed the appeal in Ahsan v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 2009.
The background to the four appeals before the court can be summarised, in bare outline, as follows. The Immigration Rules require applicants…
Recent weeks have seen three important court decisions concerning the rights of EU migrants; Khan v SSHD, which deals with rights of appeal, Toufik Lounes v SSHD which considers the rights of EU nationals following naturalisation in the UK, and SSWP v Gubeladze, which looks at the…
By Stathis Poularakis, Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet),
The inability – or unwillingness as some would say – to manage the large refugee/migrant population arriving in Europe, has brought the subject of protecting only “genuine” refugees and the aversion of irregular migration at the heart of public discourse. At the…
Many refugees have to leave family members behind when they flee their homes. This adds more hardship to the trauma of exile. Once they have found safety in Europe, being reunited with their family members is often the first priority of refugees. It takes little imagination to realise how…
On 20th July 2017 the Home Office published changes to the Immigration Rules intended to give effect to the findings made by the Supreme Court in MM (Lebanon and others v SSHD) [2017] UKSC 10 on the minimum income requirement. The new Rules came into effect on 10th August 2017 coinciding…
Did you know that the Immigration Tribunal can decide on disciplinary charges against rogue legal advisors? (Me neither). But a recent case sheds light on the Tribunal's powers to disagree with the regulator and decide the matter for itself.
This case is about the Immigration…
Statement to the 68th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme
Madam Chairperson, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen,
Many thanks for inviting me to introduce the protection segment of the Executive Committee. As always, the Note on…
Politicians repeatedly say that the UK is open for business, but for those trying to navigate the complicated and opaque business immigration rules, the UK can feel like a closed shop. In this blog, we consider the different categories of business visa and offer a guide to which option…
The UK government has an in-tray piled high with tricky policy issues related to Brexit. Among the trickiest is how Britain’s rickety and complicated immigration system will manage the wholesale transformation of immigration status for millions of current and future residents. The…
The Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge to the Upper Tribunal's application of the 'integration test' in the case of AS v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 1284.
Background
Judges use the integration test to decide whether a person who is to be…
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