Immigration and Migration

Briefing: an employer’s guide to section 3C leave
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Briefing: an employer’s guide to section 3C leave This guide outlines the steps UK employers and their foreign national employees should take when a visa is approaching expiry and a new immigration application is pending. I’ve co-written this with my employment specialist colleague Gillian Moore, because often there ...
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Upper Tribunal reiterates correct process for applying for permission to appeal
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Upper Tribunal reiterates correct process for applying for permission to appeal In the face of an ongoing legal aid crisis meaning that far too many people are now having to navigate the appeal process without a lawyer, the Upper Tribunal has stated that it “cannot afford excessive indulgence for non-compliance with ...
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How much does it cost to sponsor someone for a UK work visa?
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How much does it cost to sponsor someone for a UK work visa? Sponsoring a foreign worker isn’t cheap. Application fees and visa taxes typically run to thousands of pounds. Some of the fees are levied directly on the employer, while others fall on the worker applying for the visa. Many employers cover ...
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Job Ad: Safe Passage International is recruiting an Immigration Lawyer/Immigration Caseworker Supervisor
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Job Ad: Safe Passage International is recruiting an Immigration Lawyer/Immigration Caseworker Supervisor Salary: £34,650 – £41,500 gross per annum at 1.0 FTE. Working pattern: 1.0 FTE (37.5 hrs per week), or 0.9 or 0.8 FTE. Flexible working requests will be considered. Contract: Permanent with a 6 months probationary period Team: UK Legal ...
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Latest statistics show that only two Syrian people have been granted refugee status this year
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Latest statistics show that only two Syrian people have been granted refugee status this year The latest quarterly immigration and asylum statistics have been published, covering the period January to March 2025. The asylum backlog is down, but that is fairly meaningless given how atrocious decision making is at the moment, those cases are now ...
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How to become an Immigration Advice Authority Level 1 regulated adviser
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How to become an Immigration Advice Authority Level 1 regulated adviser We often get questions about how to become an Immigration Advice Authority (‘IAA’ – previously known as the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner / OISC) adviser so we have compiled all the essential information in one place for you. ...
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Supreme Court dismisses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship by woman in Syria
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Supreme Court dismisses appeal against deprivation of British citizenship by woman in Syria The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal, which had agreed with the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision to dismiss an appeal against deprivation of British citizenship and an application for entry clearance by a woman ...
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Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #69
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Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #69 Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! It has been a busy week and there is a lot I want to mention. First of all, the Legal Aid Agency announced this morning that it has come under cyber attack and the perpetrators ...
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Immigration Advice Authority publishes updated guidance note on supervision
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Immigration Advice Authority publishes updated guidance note on supervision The Immigration Advice Authority (formerly OISC) has published an updated version of their guidance note on supervision. The note covers supervising someone who wants to move to a higher advice or increase their competencies, supervising trainee advisers working at level ...
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Challenge to refusal of visitor visa dismissed by Court of Appeal
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Challenge to refusal of visitor visa dismissed by Court of Appeal An unhappy Court of Appeal has warned against the “the type of informal case expansion that was deprecated by this Court in R (Talpada) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 841” and reminded litigants of the need ...
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Court of Appeal dismisses Vietnamese humanitarian protection appeal
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Court of Appeal dismisses Vietnamese humanitarian protection appeal The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision of the Upper Tribunal to allow the Home Secretary’s appeal against a First-tier Tribunal decision allowing the appeal of a Vietnamese national on humanitarian protection grounds. The court held that the First-tier ...
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Briefing: How expensive are UK immigration applications and is this a problem?
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Briefing: How expensive are UK immigration applications and is this a problem? The cost of making an immigration or nationality application has risen extremely steeply. Annual increases of 20% or 25% per year have become standard, but now we’re seeing increases of 120%. An example is the Certificate of Sponsorship fee, which ...
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Immigration white paper impacts on the Higher Education sector and international students
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Immigration white paper impacts on the Higher Education sector and international students The immigration white paper contains broad changes affecting swathes of UK immigration policy, including workers, students, family, settlement, citizenship and asylum. Here I look at the changes affecting higher education and the student’s journey. Why they are making changes The government ...
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