The Asylum and Immigration Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has issued two new determinations which show that the Court of Appeal's judgment in Pankina goes much further than the UKBA seems to have grasped.
The UKBA's Points Based System suffers second attack
The Court of Appeal has found that "false representations" as this phrase occurs in the Immigration Rules' "General grounds for refusal" means lies.
The post-election speculation has finally ended with the government’s announced “four strand policy” starting to take shape.
The Court of Appeal's judgment in Pankina & others v Secretary of State for the Home Department may have holed the UKBA's points based system below the waterline
In one of its recently issued determinations the Upper Tribunal's Immigration and Asylum Chamber seems to have begun freely to express its frustration at what it sees as the idiosyncrasies of the points-based system.
Harsh consequences can follow from completing an application form incorrectly
In what seems likely to be a controversial move the new Home Secretary today announced that spouses, civil partners and fiances of British nationals and others settled in the United Kingdom will have to pass a compulsory test for command of the English language in order to qualify for entry clearance or leave to remain.
The senior courts are beginning to consider the points based system and its accompanying regime of sponsorship management.
The points based system is further adjusted by complex new Immigration Rules.