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13 May 2013
On 26
April 2013 the Crime and Courts Act 2013 received Royal Assent. Section 22 of
the Act amends the law governing transfers of immigration judicial reviews to
the Upper Tribunal from the High...
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10 May 2013
The Queen's Speech on 8 May set
out the government's legislative programme for the next year. One of the
keynotes was the announcement of the forthcoming immigration bill. The bill is
primarily...
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09 April 2013
On
26 March 2013 Home Secretary Theresa May announced that the "closed, defensive
and secretive" UK Border Agency would be no more. Instead, the agency will be
split into two separate units within...
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25 January 2013
On 24 January 2013 the Chief
Inspector of Borders and Immigration published a report showing his findings on
the way the UKBA dealt with applications to enter, remain and settle in the UK
on the basis...
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06 December 2012
You may be aware from press coverage and our recent blog
post that foreign or Commonwealth citizens who have served in the HM Forces face
difficulty applying
for settlement in the UK if they have...
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05 December 2012
It has been widely
reported in the press that the number of people who come to live in the UK
for the long-term and the number who are leaving fell from 242,000 to 183,000
in the year leading...
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26 November 2012
On 1 January 2013, following on from the passing of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act
2012 and the latest Statement of Changes, significant
changes to the Immigration Rules...
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12 November 2012
Yesterday it was announced that the coalition government has
been in discussion with Home Secretary Theresa May over her plans to
dramatically cut the number of non-EU migrants coming to the UK....
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19 October 2012
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Daniel
Wintle once proudly declared: "I get down on my knees every night and thank God
for making me an Englishman. It is the greatest honour He could bestow. After
all,...
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12 October 2012
The
recent Conservative Party conference in Birmingham put a few important issues
on the agenda and, not surprisingly, immigration took centre stage once again.
‘Untouchable’
until now, the...
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05 October 2012
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 was introduced to
allow those with past convictions through the passage of time to have their
convictions in effect forgotten, in certain circumstances. Under...
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24 September 2012
Gherson has been recommended as a top tier firm in The Legal
500 for the sixth year running. All Gherson’s practice areas have been recognised
by the world’s largest independent legal benchmarking...
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20 July 2012
(see previous posts : http://www.gherson.com/news-articles/tribunal-determinations-pankina-3077/
http://www.gherson.com/news-articles/pankina-changes-to-immigration-rules(1)-2972/...
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13 June 2012
On 11 June 2012, the Home Secretary,
Theresa May, announced to Parliament that new restrictions would be introduced,
which are intended to reduce the number of non-EEA family migrants. Most of...
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28 November 2011
In its judgment in Dereci and others (CJEU C-256/11, 15 Nov 2011) the Court of Justice of the European Union has clarified the scope of its judgment earlier this year in Ruiz Zambrano [2011] EUECJ...
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21 November 2011
The United Kingdom Border Agency announced last week (November 16 2011) that that the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) had recommended that the minimum salary to be demonstrated by people settled...
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08 November 2011
As we reported on this site, on 12 October 2011 the Supreme Court issued a judgment ( Quila and Bibi v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 45) to the effect that a change in the...
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07 November 2011
Does the UKBA have any discretion to consider an application under the Points Based System if the applicant failed to meet the strict requirements of the Agency’s "policy guidance”? If it does,...
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28 October 2011
Back in May of 2011 the government got round to implementing section 85A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.
(It actually could have done so at any point from when Parliament...
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21 October 2011
The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA)’s Shortage Occupation list consists of a range of jobs which it is accepted that there not enough skilled workers in the UK to fill. Employers who...
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