BY Sonia Lenegan
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My name is Colin Yeo and I am a barrister, writer, campaigner and consultant specialising in immigration law. I founded Free Movement in 2007.
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Unless and until a person has been notified that a decision has been made to make a deportation order against them, they are not liable to removal for the purpose of section 259 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. The importance of that point in this case was that it...
BY Sonia Lenegan
The case concerns a settlement application made on behalf of a child under paragraph 297 of Part 8 which was instead granted as limited leave under Appendix FM because although her father was a British citizen resident in the UK, her mother only had limited leave. The Court of Appeal...
BY Alex Piletska
In this briefing we will take a look at what is really going on with the main features of the contemporary asylum system: arrivals, the backlog, detention, removal and resettlement. The information is drawn mainly from the quarterly immigration statistics and transparency data for the year ended September 2025, the...
BY Colin Yeo
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has disclosed some further details on the new immigration and asylum appeal body. The plans are contained in a letter to the chair of the Justice Committee. Some further hints at the process behind the scenes separately emerged in live questions to Sarah Sackman, Minister...
BY Colin Yeo
The Upper Tribunal has heard a challenge by a cohort of Syrian nationals regarding the certification of their asylum claims on the basis that they could be returned to a safe third country, in this case Bulgaria. It is believed that this case is the first of its kind since...
BY Jamie Bell
That’s officially a wrap on 2025, as Sonia and Barry run through December’s various happenings, including the final statement of changes for the year and our latest resources on the earned settlement proposals. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force and the latest tribunal statistics show...