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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
- Guidance: Single protection interview: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Information booklet for asylum applications
- Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT)
- Guidance: Pakistan: country policy and information notes
- Migration transparency data
- Form: Information for your immigration bail reporting appointment
- Guidance: Document checks and charges for carriers
- Guidance: Sponsor a seasonal worker
- Global Corporate Law
- Key Features of the Singapore Convention on Mediation
- What is the test for a ‘one man company’?
- LIBOR: The Final Nail in the Coffin?
- Banking and Misconduct: A Critique of the Cure of Culture
- Court of Appeal Opens the Door to LIBOR and Benchmark Misrepresentation Claims
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
- Immigration News
- Shabana Mahmood hints she could water down plans on leave to remain
- Shabana Mahmood says Labour party wants to create ‘fairness in our immigration system’ – UK politics live
- Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
- UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
- Facing up to the threat that Reform poses to our democracy | Letters
- UK politics live: Pat McFadden tells Labour activists they should not defend benefits system ‘status quo’ because it ‘writes off’ claimants
- ‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
- Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
- Ukrainians in UK fear homelessness over host scheme funding cuts
- Londoners get £3bn a year subsidy because structure of council tax biased against north, says thinktank – UK politics live
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Category Archives: Students
Pakistan, asylum, gay claims and domestic violence
On the verge of being a “rogue state”, Pakistan is generally in the news for all the wrong reasons. Support for the Taliban (“dirty work” for the Americans) in the past, blood feuds, stratospheric levels of honour killing, mafia activity, … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum, Hostile Environment, Islam, Pakistan, Persecution, Refugee Convention, SOGI, Spouse visa, Students, UKSC
Tagged Asylum, Domestic Violence, ILR, Settlement, UK Supreme Court
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Indian student’s visa cancellation held unlawful
Kaur & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWHC 1942 (Admin) (25 July 2025) In these judicial review proceedings, Matthew Butt KC held that Mrs Kaur’s permission to remain was cancelled … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Cancellation, Damages, ECHR, Human Rights, Immigration Rules, India, IS.91R notice, Judicial Review, RED.0001 notice, Students
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, ECHR, Immigration Rules, India, Judicial Review, Students
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White Paper: Restoring Control over the Immigration System
Restoring Control over the Immigration System (May 2025, CP 1326) sets out the case for reducing net migration. But this an ambitious goal which successive governments have failed to achieve. Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, conveniently accuses the previous … Continue reading
FTT was entitled to give little weight to APPG report on TOEIC
The Secretary of State for the Home Department v Akter & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 741 (27 May 2022) Upon the SSHD’s appeal, the Court of Appeal held that a case in which she had relied on generic evidence from … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Court of Appeal, Students, TOEIC, Tribunals
Tagged Case Law, Court of Appeal, Students, TOEIC, Tribunals
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Global Talent, Start-up, Innovator and Graduate Visas
The Home Office is keen to emphasise that the UK wants to attract only the best and brightest talent from around the world. On 20 February 2020 the Global Talent route was launched under the current system for non-EU citizens, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Global Talent, Graduate, Immigration Rules, Innovator, PBS, Start-up, Students
Tagged Global Talent, Immigration Rules, Innovator, Investors, Points Based System
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“Open for business”: Analysis of the UK’s new PBS
An “Australian-style points-based system” (new PBS) to control immigration was one of six guarantees given by Boris Johnson to “get Brexit done in January and unleash the potential of our whole country.” The new PBS is the cornerstone of the UK’s post-Brexit immigration … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix EU, Brexit, COVID-19, European Union, EUSS, Free Movement, Immigration Rules, Paragraph 322(5), PBS, Politics, Settlement, Students, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 4, UKSC
Tagged Coronavirus, Economy, European Union, Free Movement, Immigration Rules, Points Based System, UK Supreme Court
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Court of Appeal says ‘kitchen-sink’ approach to the citation of authorities is ‘wholly illegitimate’
Kaur v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1101 (1 July 2019) Dismissing a Tier 4 (General) student’s appeal, the Court of Appeal has held that it is “wholly illegitimate” for legal representatives to cite … Continue reading
Analysis of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
The crushing defeat suffered by Theresa May because of the rejection her Brexit Deal has left the UK in utter chaos. Uncertainty looms large in all spheres of UK life but the government is determined to carry through with Brexit … Continue reading
The Court of Appeal on Substantive and Procedural Fairness
Pathan & Islam v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2103 (02 October 2018) Fairness in official decision-making is an important virtue in public law. Dismissing the judicial review claim involving Tier 2 (General) of the … Continue reading
What is the Meaning of ‘Precarious’ in Section 117B(5) of the NIAA 2002?
Having already heard a string of appeals relating to the meaning of “reasonable” in section 117B(6) and the meaning of “unduly harsh” in section 117C(5) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as amended), recently in Rhuppiah the Supreme Court … Continue reading
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 1154
Interestingly, by virtue of Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 1154, the Home Office claims to extend its commitment to protect and support the most vulnerable people while simultaneously purporting to encourage highly talented students and workers to remain … Continue reading
Curtailment and Entry Clearance: Interfaith Couple Wins on Chikwamba in Court of Appeal
Tikka v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 642 (28 March 2018) Qaisar Tikka entered as with student leave until September 2011. Subsequently, he met his British wife Josita Simta Rajoria and they married on 22 … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Families, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, India, Muslims, Pakistan, Persecution, Public Interest, Spouses, Students
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Criminal Offences, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Marriage, Pakistan, Spouses
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Seven Year Rule: ‘Powerful Reasons’ Approach Confirmed
MT & ET (Child’s Best Interests: Ex Tempore Pilot) Nigeria [2018] UKUT 88(IAC) (1 February 2018) The president Peter Lane J has reconfirmed Elias LJ’s doctrine in MA (Pakistan) & Ors [2016] EWCA Civ 705 (see here) that “powerful reasons” are … Continue reading
Deception and the Immigration Rules: Dishonesty is Necessary for a Document to be ‘False’
Agha v SSHD (False Document) [2017] UKUT 121 (IAC) (21 February 2017) The officials of the Federal Investigation Agency are much maligned in the West. In my encounters with FIA officials, in their role as immigration officers in Pakistani ports, … Continue reading
Supreme Court Dismisses Section 3C Appeals
R (Mirza & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 63 (14 December 2016) The provisions of the Immigration Act 1971 have haunted the courts for a number of years. Earlier cases such as Alvi and … Continue reading
The Sick Man of Europe: Can Theresa May Save the UK?
These days the British rule with two queens but they are still quite sick. Of course, the ills of their country are almost exclusively related to Brexit – a meaningless word not long ago. “Change is in the air” and … Continue reading
Supreme Court Allows Evidential Flexibility Appeal
On 14 October 2015, a generous Supreme Court allowed four appeals in as many judgments. In Gohil [2015] UKSC 61 and Sharland [2015] UKSC 60, among other things, “opening the floodgates” the court held that Varsha Gohil and Alison Sharland … Continue reading
Student Loans: Settlement Criterion Declared Unlawful
R (Tigere) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2015] UKSC 57 (29 July 2015) Soaring costs, rampant hostility towards foreigners and rigid rules have made the UK an unattractive place to live and study. But should settlement … Continue reading
Posted in Appendix FM, Article 14, Article 8, ECHR, Education, Human Rights Act, Immigration Rules, Lady Hale, Settlement, Students, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Immigration Rules, PPI, UK Supreme Court
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