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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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01 May 2013
The Home Office
recently announced that it is carrying out a re-tendering exercise for approved
secure English language test providers in summer 2013. The aim is to ensure
that providers offer a...
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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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15 March 2013
On 6 April 2013 the latest changes to the Immigration
Rules will take effect. Below is a brief overview of the main changes that will
affect your company if it is a Tier 2 sponsor.
Minimum salary...
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15 March 2013
A new statement of changes comes
into effect on 6 April 2013. Included in these changes is an update to the list
of skilled occupations used when selecting a Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC)...
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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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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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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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17 October 2011
House of Commons paper 1511, the fifth statement of changes in the Immigration Rules so far this year (2011), includes a disparate set of changes to the immigration regimes relating to:
...
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Decision makers have difficulty keeping up with changes in the Points Based System Immigration Rules
09 October 2011
The Upper Tribunal’s Asylum and Immigration Chamber’s determination in Bhanushali (re-using same CAS: new rules) India [2011] UKUT 00411(IAC), issued on 5 October 2011 is a salutary indication...
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02 October 2011
Is X’s brother-in-law a member of X’s family? The answer matters because, by the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2003, only those who applied for a visa to visit one of their "family...
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