Having lost the decisive case on the lawfulness of the Points Based System the Secretary of State for the Home Department has decided not to pursue an application for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. Instead the Immigration Rules have been amended so that the criteria which led to the challenges in Pankina and English UK have been transferred from the Policy Guidance into the Rules themselves.
The UKBA's Points Based System suffers second attack
The Court of Appeal has found that "false representations" as this phrase occurs in the Immigration Rules' "General grounds for refusal" means lies.
The ongoing expansion at Gherson has been further consolidated with the arrival of another top immigration consultant
The post-election speculation has finally ended with the government’s announced “four strand policy” starting to take shape.
The Court of Appeal's judgment in Pankina & others v Secretary of State for the Home Department may have holed the UKBA's points based system below the waterline
In one of its recently issued determinations the Upper Tribunal's Immigration and Asylum Chamber seems to have begun freely to express its frustration at what it sees as the idiosyncrasies of the points-based system.
Harsh consequences can follow from completing an application form incorrectly
In what seems likely to be a controversial move the new Home Secretary today announced that spouses, civil partners and fiances of British nationals and others settled in the United Kingdom will have to pass a compulsory test for command of the English language in order to qualify for entry clearance or leave to remain.
Until relatively recently German nationals lost their German citizenship if they obtained citizenship of another Member State of the European Union. The change in the law took place in 2007 but was hardly reported, leaving many German nationals unaware of their new rights.