Seven years after the High Court found the Home Office's approach to Turkish ECAA applicants procedurally unfair, the same failings are returning at the settlement stage. This piece sets out the refusal patterns emerging in 2026, why they sit uneasily with Karagul, Ozmen and the Home…
Expert witness reports are often critical in shaping asylum decisions, providing essential context on the conditions that force individuals to flee their home countries. To be effective and accepted by the Tribunal's Immigration and Asylum Chamber (IAC), these reports must meet detailed…
"Protection is available" is not a useful answer until we ask whether a person in this claimant's position can ordinarily obtain it, without buying access or finding exceptional intervention.
From Theoretical Availability To Ordinary Access
It is not enough to say someone, somewhere,…
The Immigration Salary List (ISL)
The Immigration Salary List (ISL) is a list of specific occupations that qualify for reduced salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker and Health and Care Worker visa routes. It was introduced on 4 April 2024, replacing the former Shortage Occupation…
Part 2. Country evidence frequently proves that a protection architecture exists. The harder question is whether the architecture functions when an ordinary person tries to ordinarily activate it.
Institutional Existence Is Evidence. It Is Not The Conclusion.
Of course Nigeria is not a…
Part 1 of the State Protection in Nigeria series. The legal test expressly requires access. The practical question is what "able to access the protection" means for the person whose claim is actually being decided.The familiar sentence in the refusal letterOne of the most common issues I…
Due to the backlog in the asylum system, the determination of pending settlement applications from Syrian nationals only recommenced in December 2025. This means that thousands of Syrian refugees and their dependents are currently facing Safe Return Reviews, including an examination of…
The Home Office has published version 08/26 of both Part 1 (Apply for a Licence) and Part 3 (Sponsor Duties and Compliance) of its Workers and Temporary Workers sponsor guidance. Whilst many of the amendments are administrative, together they introduce the most significant changes to the…
What does the world lose when people with skills and dreams are forced to put their lives on hold? When displacement turns waiting into a life stage, the damage stacks. For millions of refugees, displacement isn’t just the moment they flee. It’s the months, often years that follow,…
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Hirtie [2026] EWCA Civ 1000, handed down by the Court of Appeal on 30 July 2026, is a deportation appeal that turns less on the substance of Article 8 than on procedural discipline: whether a party who unequivocally withdraws a ground of appeal…
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