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28 January 2010
A Visa Letter generates all of the points students have to score for "Attributes" in order to succeed in an application under the Immigration Rules. The United Kingdom Border Agency's Tier 4 of the... Read more »
19 January 2010
The limits of European Community law relating to the free movement of workers and those providing services within the countries which comprise the European Union (the "EU") continue to be tested in... Read more »
15 December 2009
Nationals of the countries which make up the European Union (the "EU") are entitled to move freely within the Union to look for work, to study and to provide services. Their family members... Read more »
07 December 2009
By the Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2009 the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal will, on 15 February 2010, be transferred into the First-Tier Tribunal . Despite... Read more »
26 November 2009
Decisions providing guidance on the demands of the points based system are few and far between. The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal's decision in PO (Points based scheme: maintenance: loans) Nigeria... Read more »
13 November 2009
The Draft Immigration Bill , which the government published yesterday (12 November 2009) is the culmination of a highly ambitious set of measures designed to alter completely the structure of immigration... Read more »
26 October 2009
The government's plans for reforming the process whereby a person becomes a British citizen are moving forward, if a little slowly. Today (26 October 2009) is the last day... Read more »
16 October 2009
The UK's Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (the EEA Regulations) set out the rights of nationals of the countries comprising the European Economic Area and those of their family... Read more »
06 October 2009
The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has announced that it will maintain the current relaxed maintenance requirements for Tier 4 (Student) Migrants applying for leave to remain in the UK until... Read more »
05 October 2009
The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA)'s legislative programme - whereby information on any person who has either arrived in the UK or is boarding a ship, aeroplane or a channel tunnel train bound... Read more »
22 September 2009
The United Kingdom Border Agency has announced that it has opened a visa route for Turkish nationals applying to establish themselves in business under the European Community Association Agreement... Read more »
09 September 2009
Command Paper 7701, presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department on 9th September 2009, makes important changes to the sole representative immigration category, which... Read more »
07 August 2009
The United Kingdom Borders Agency (the UKBA) has issued a bulletin regarding the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 which received Royal Assent on 21 July. The bulletin indicates that further... Read more »
22 July 2009
The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal's second determination relating to the Points Based System has revealed the inflexibility and inherent unreasonableness of the new regime - as well as the Tribunal's... Read more »
23 June 2009
Turkish nationals who set up businesses in the United Kingdom have long enjoyed the benefits of Article 41(1) of the Additional Protocol to the Ankara Agreement, originally signed between Turkey and... Read more »
18 June 2009
Kan (Post-Study Work – degree award required) India [2009] UKAIT 00022, recently issued by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, is the first "reported" determination by the Tribunal regarding the... Read more »
03 June 2009
The House of Lords has confirmed that where immigration rules change between the time at which someone makes an application for leave to remain and the time at which that application is decided on... Read more »
18 May 2009
As has been comprehensively reported on this site - section 15 of the the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 enables the United Kingdom Border Agency (the "UKBA") to require an employer to... Read more »
12 May 2009
In R (on the application of RK (Nepal) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 359 the Court of Appeal had to consider whether the Appellants, two Nepalese sisters who had apparently... Read more »
01 May 2009
Now that the Work Permits regime has been entirely replaced by Tier 2 of the Points Based System, employers who wish to employ workers from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) must first obtain... Read more »
