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Free Movement, created by Colin Yeo, provides updates and advice on immigration, EU, nationality, and refugee law. Staffed by immigration lawyers & experts.
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4h ago
The Upper Tribunal has overturned a decision by the First-tier Tribunal to allow the appeal of a couple who were trying to rely on their residence rights under EU law in circumstances where their sponsor had lost his EU citizenship. The case is Secretary of State for the Home Department v Nagdev & Anor (Procedural ..read more
Free Movement
20h ago
In what is a day of enormous shame for any right thinking person in this country, the UK’s treaty with Rwanda has today been ratified which means that the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration Act) 2024 which received Royal Assent today is now in force. On 22 January 2024 the House of Lords voted ..read more
Free Movement
1d ago
As indicated in the recent consultation response, the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) has now published the new code of standards. It is a criminal offence to give immigration advice unless you are properly regulated and for those who are not practicing solicitors, barristers or Chartered Legal Executives, that usually means needing to be registered ..read more
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1d ago
The Home Office has published its latest “ad hoc” statistics release, showing a dramatic increase in the number of Vietnamese people coming to the UK and a 24% increase in people detected crossing the Channel so far in 2024. The statistics were published to support the Prime Minister’s speech in relation to the Rwanda Bill ..read more
Free Movement
2d ago
In AM (Belarus) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] UKSC 13, in a judgment delivered by Lord Sales, the Supreme Court has held that a man living in the United Kingdom for twenty six years with no immigration status was not entitled to status on human rights or other grounds because it ..read more
Free Movement
2d ago
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Free Movement
3d ago
Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! The only version of the Prime Minister’s press conference that I recommend reading is this fact checked one by Lizzie Dearden. As my periodic reminder that there are two countries involved in this process, it is worth checking in with what is happening at Rwanda’s end. The bill which will ..read more
Free Movement
3d ago
Almost two years after changes were made by the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 to the standard of proof, we have our first reported decision from the Upper Tribunal on how the assessment of whether a person’s fear of persecution is “well-founded” should be carried out. The case is JCK v Secretary of State for ..read more
Free Movement
4d ago
Presumably because everything is going so well with the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Rwanda Bill, it appears that the government is setting its sights back on the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, in particular the provisions not yet in force around priority removal notices and accelerated detained appeals. The Tribunal Procedure Committee carried ..read more
Free Movement
4d ago
The backlog of cases in the inadmissibility process was in the news again last week following senior Home Officials’ evidence session at the Public Accounts Committee on Monday. This article looks at legal arguments that can be made in relation to the Home Office’s delay in making admissibility decisions for people who have been issued ..read more