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Never Too Late to Make An Application Under The EU Settlement Scheme
Appealing Home Office decisions: understanding your rights and options
The UK Home Office grants several million visas each year, and refusal rates (other than for asylum claims) are relatively low. If you do face the heartbreak of a negative decision, what can you do? Plans may have to change…
Immigration rules keep changing, and the confusion can cause real problems for migrants
A nationwide plan to digitise immigration documents recently came into force. Since January 1, millions of foreign nationals who live in the UK must now use digital-only status documents, as all biometric residence permits…
Interpretation and translation in immigration cases: a conversation with Elena Shutova
Deprivation of British Citizenship on Grounds of Fraud: The Test on Appeal After Chaudhry
Introduction There is a right of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal ('FTT') when a person is deprived of British citizenship on grounds of it being acquired by means of fraud (s.40(3) of the British Nationality Act 1981…
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Latest case law
ETX, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 294 (Admin)
High Court (Administrative Court)
APD, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 246 (Admin)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Almas [2025] EWHC 212 (KB)
High Court (King's/Queen's Bench Division)
BLZ, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 153 (Admin)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v D8 [2025] EWCA Civ 33
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Belarus: Human rights violations remain rampant, some amounting to crimes against humanity, UN Group of Experts says
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Country Policy and Information Note - Colombia: Internal relocation (February 2025)
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Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
EUAA COI Report - Sudan: Country Focus [2. Treatment of selected profiles and groups of the population]
European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)
Report of the Group of Independent Experts on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus (February 2025) (Advance edited version)
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Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014 [Latest available consolidated version]
SI 2014 No. 2604 (L. 31). Rules on how cases are handled in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal…
Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 [Latest available consolidated version]
SI 2008 No. 2698. Rules for how cases are handled in the Upper Tribunal, in the Administrative Appeals, Immigration and…
Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 [Latest available consolidated version]
SI 2018 No. 330. This is the consolidated and updated version of the Regulations, complete with selectable point in time…
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