From Monday 23 May 2011 the evidence people can rely on in their appeals to the First Tier Tribunal's Asylum and Immigration Chamber against decisions to refuse their points based system applications will be severely restricted.
The European Court has held that dual nationals of two countries ("Member States") within the European Union who have always lived in a Member State of which they are nationals are not beneficiaries of the rights to free movement for themselves and their family members which are set out in the Citizens' Directive.
The Court of Appeal has found that a family which had permission to reside in the UK because of their mother's exercise of free movement rights as an EEA national, and who continued to have such permission after her death, acquired no right to permanent residence in the UK.
The Asylum and Immigration Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has upheld a decision of the First Tier Tribunal allowing the appeal of a student whose application for leave to remain was refused because the UKBA had withdrawn his college's Sponsor licence. The Tribunal decided that the Home Office's decision was unfair.
The Tier 4 Sponsorship system is completely revised in a new Statement of Changes in the Immigration Rules, effective from 21 April 2011.
On 23 March 2011 the Home Secretary Theresa May announced the UKBA's overhaul of the Tier 4 General Student regime.
House of Commons paper 863 - the Statement of Changes in the Immigration Rules issued yesterday which will take effect on 6 April 2011 - implements the government's stated policy of encouraging migration to the UK of the world's wealthiest and most entrepreneurial people.
The parents of a minor dependant child who is a "European citizen", and who themselves are not European citizens, derive a right of residence in the European Union Member State of which the child is a national.
The government yesterday (10 March 2011) announced that the Worker Registration Scheme, which affects people from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia who are employed in the UK, will close at the end of April 2011.
A long standing confusion as to when and how someone whose application for leave to remain in the UK is refused can appeal has been resolved by the Court of Appeal in two recent judgments.