It is now over 3 years since the UK Home Office launched the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) on 21st January 2019 in readiness for Brexit. According to the latest government data, as of the end of December 2021, 6,385,500 EUSS applications have been received, 333,200 of these arriving after…
From 15 February 2022 the Immigration Rules will change to allow sponsorship of carers and support workers for nursing homes from overseas. Carer workers and home carers will come under the Skilled Worker route, SOC code 6145, and will be added to the shortage occupation list. Related job…
The individuals who have the right to work in the UK has changed since the Brexit agreement came into effect, and we are likely to see some of the biggest impacts of this over the next year. That means that how people come into the country and the checks that they are subject to could be…
By Hackney Community Law Centre, Simon Cox and Michael Spencer,
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the Home Secretary's appeal in Akinsanya, finding that she misinterpreted UK law when setting the Immigration Rules for Zambrano carers under the EU Settlement Scheme ('EUSS'). The result is that she will now need to reconsider, and potentially redraft,…
Detailed rules relating to three new visas and reviews to existing routes are due to be published in the coming weeks.
Back in July 2021 the UK government unveiled its ambitious Innovation strategy to lead the future by creating it [1]. It recognised that to deliver on the Global Britain…
By Ilona Pinter, British Politics and Policy at LSE,
Hadia (22), Mubin (16), and Hasti (7) along with their mother Khazal were among the 27 people who died in the Channel in November 2021, trying to reach the UK. Other children and young people like them have attempted the dangerous crossing or have made it across the Channel, though we don…
2021 wasn't a year of great upheaval in the Immigration Rules. Major changes such as the overhaul of the Skilled Worker sponsorship system took effect just at the end of 2020, as did the Frontier Worker Permit scheme for EU nationals remaining in employment (but not residence) in the UK.…
Savran v. Denmark (Application number 57467/15), 7 December 2021
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has held that the risks to the applicant's psychiatric health posed by his expulsion to Turkey did not reach the threshold for the application of Article 3…
In MI (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 1711 (18 November 2021), the Court of Appeal recently revisited the question of how the "unduly harsh" test may properly be met, referencing the leading decisions in KO (Nigeria) and HA (Iraq).
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It is hard to conceive of a situation in which a person who has been living in the UK for 53 years might be deported back to her country of birth, the United States. This was the reality for 75-year-old Polly Gordon, who, despite her more than half a century as a UK resident, was ordered…
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