This year has so far seen a profusion of procedures, a glut of guidance, and a carnival of caselaw.
Join Mark Symes for this 60 minute LIVE session to hear about:
-New Rules & Guidance for the Skilled Worker route for care workers and nannies, re tradeable points and permitted salary deductions, and a general salary rise for many legacy routes
-New Rules for Ukrainians, new regulations re eVisas, new guidance for visitor applications and updated procedures for error correction requests and electronic travel authorisations
-Lifetime bans on British citizenship for illegal entry and dangerous journeys
-New decisions from the courts and Upper Tribunal:
- Relevant considerations when revoking Sponsor licences including the HRA 1998, unlawful treatment of care home Sponsors, tweaks for charity and creative temporary workers, disqualification as a Director for right to work failings, and the meaning of “voluntary work”
- Legal earthquakes re citizenship deprivation appeals and further limitations on Chikwamba arguments,
- The latest thinking re fairness in cancelling immigration permission, making applications outside the Rules, UKVI’s ability to “correct” mistaken immigration decisions and duty to follow previous analogous appeal decisions, historic legislative unfairness in nationality decision making, disclosure of correspondence in JR proceedings, decision making on entry clearance/leave to enter applications, family reunion from war zones, document verification procedures for experts,
- and cutting-edge family court decisions on adoption, surrogacy and immigration law
- Multiple interesting damages awards against the government for false imprisonment
-And for legal aid lawyers: new decisions on expert evidence in age assessment trials, interim relief in accommodation cases, inadequate accommodation for pregnant asylum seekers, medical evidence for trafficking victims, assessing Afghan ARAP applications, analysing historic Windrush decisions, mental health needs and trafficking support, and when abduction for ransom might constitute trafficking