A successful application for permission as a Skilled Worker must satisfy the "genuine vacancy" requirement among several others. Having a CoS issued by your employer does not mean the requirement has been considered or…
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Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals
By Mark Henderson & Rowena Moffatt of Doughty Street Chambers and Alison Pickup & Monika Nollet of Asylum Aid
Guest blog
Navigating “Genuine Vacancy” Rules in Skilled Worker Applications: A Practical Guide
How the British press has undermined the ECHR over many years: new study
The UK's immigration and asylum bill has proposed restricting how the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is interpreted and applied in the UK to make it easier to deport migrants.
For years, critics have argued that…
Moving the Goalposts, Then Replacing the Referee: Earned Settlement, the IIAA, and the Skilled Workers Caught in Between
1. On 30 June 2026, the Government introduced the Immigration and Asylum Bill and announced its centrepiece under a headline that repays careful reading: “New independent appeals body to speed up removals.” [1] The two…
The End of 5-Year ILR? ‘Earned Settlement’ Explained
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Vacancies
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Key case law
Rahim v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWCA Civ 930
Court of Appeal
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Dabo [2026] EWCA Civ 907
Court of Appeal
EXR, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No.2) [2026] EWHC 1726 (Admin)
High Court (Administrative Court)
AYA & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWHC 1742 (Admin)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Key country reports
Country Policy and Information Note - Sudan: Security Situation (July 2026)
UK Home Office
Niger: 3 Years of Military Rule Deepens Human Rights Crisis
Human Rights Watch
Lebanon: UN experts alarmed by killings, displacement and gender-specific harm as Israel escalates hostilities
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Country Policy and Information Note - Pakistan: Christians and Christian converts (July 2026)
UK Home Office
Key legislation
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2026
SI 2026 No. 683. These Regulations bring into force section 48 (extension of prohibition on employment to other working…
Immigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
SI 2026 No. 700. These Regulations amend the immigration status checks employers, landlords and agents must carry out to…
Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
SI 2026 No. 499. This instrument amends regulation 6 of the 2005 Regulations to allow the Secretary of State to continue…