In her first major speech on immigration the Home Secretary Theresa May has announced significant policy decisions. People who enter the UK as skilled workers under Tier 2 of the Points Based System, or under Tier 4 as students - unless their courses are at degree level or above - will not qualify for indefinite leave to remain and thereafter to naturalise as British citizens.
In determinations promulgated on 27 October 2010, the appeals of two domestic workers, represented by Laurie Fransman QC instructed by Gherson, were allowed by the Upper Tribunal.
The government's Migration Advisory Committee (the MAC) yesterday published its report entitled "Limits on Migration: Limits on Tier 1 and Tier 2 for 2011/12 and supporting policies".
R (on the application of (1) Fauzia Abbassi & Ors (2) Mahubur Rahman & Ors (3) Omeanda Adams & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWHC 2894 (Admin) concerned the 2008 withdrawal of the concessionary policy, DP 5/96, for children with seven years’ residence. The policy created a general presumption that indefinite leave to remain would be granted to families where one or more children had accumulated at least seven years’ continuous residence in the UK.
The seventh statement of changes in the Immigration Rules this year makes it mandatory for spouses and partners of British citizens to speak English.
Several newspapers have recently reported that the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is seeking a judicial review of the Coalition government's decision to issue a temporary cap on "economic migration".
At the beginning of this month Damian Green, the new Immigration Minister addressed the Royal Commonwealth Society and revealed the government's research document "The Migrant Journey."
The Asylum and Immigration Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has issued two new determinations which show that the Court of Appeal's judgment in Pankina goes much further than the UKBA seems to have grasped.
What can you do if the judge hearing your case is apparently asleep, or appears not to be paying attention to what is being said at the hearing?
As reported elsewhere on this site the UKBA has responded to recent judgments in which the methodology of the points based system was found to be unlawful not by appealing against those judgments but simply by inserting criteria which were in its policy guidance into the Immigration Rules themselves. The changes are summarised here.