The appeal was of a family member of an exempt diplomat who wished to remain in the UK to complete her studies and we assisted her in an application for Discretionary Leave to Remain. ...

This case was a challenge to the amendments to paragraph 281 of the Immigration Rules which were laid before Parliament on 1^st October 2010 and came into effect on 29^th November 2010.  The amendments which we are going to refer to as the new Rule requires the foreign spouses or partners of British citizens or persons settled in the UK applying to come to the UK as a spouse to produce a certificate of knowledge of English language to a prescribed standard.  Before those applying for indefinite leave as spouses and partners were only required to demonstrate this knowledge two years after entering the UK.  The new entry test assesses both speaking and listening.  The level required is lower than that required in the post entry test required for those applying for settlement and is subject to a number of exceptions....

Following the Supreme Court Judgment in Quilanbib -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department (2011) UKSC 45 which ensured that the minimum age requirement of 21 in the Immigration Rules for spouse and partners of British citizens and those with settled status was unlawful, the Government has been considering the implications of the judgment and decided to take the following action:...

A recent inspection report was released by John Vine, the Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), detailing his findings and recommendations following an assessment of the UKBA’s efficiency in managing their powers to deport foreign national prisoners.  Usually a person who is liable to deportation is a non British citizen that is currently or has in the past committed a criminal offence and has served a prison sentence of over 12 months in length....

Adoption has increasingly become a hot topic in immigration law in the UK and here at Danielle Cohen Solicitors we are proud to say that we have helped an Indian child join her adoptive parents in the UK....

We were instructed by the father of the Appellant who was a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago born in December 1993, hence a minor....

We represented the Appellant who applied for settlement in the UK as she has been here since September 2003. The Appellant was a citizen of South Africa, who arrived on a visitors visa and thereafter became an over stayer. She was in a relationship with a British national, intending to marry soon. She applied for settlement with another firm of solicitors on 6th August 2009 on the basis of medical treatment, mental health issues and under Article 8 of the European Convention. The application was refused on the grounds that the Appellant failed to demonstrate that she was unable to obtain suitable medical care in South Africa. The application was also refused on the basis that her removal would not be in breach of her Article 8 ECHR Human Rights. The Secretary of State argued that most of the period of residence was without leave. Her age and the length of residency did not provide grounds for not removing her. Her ties and domestic circumstances were not sufficiently compelling....

Whilst Danielle Cohen Immigration Solicitors in London handles many asylum cases, we thought we would highlight today a particularly unusual asylum case of an individual who became a refugee sur place, i.e. whilst she was resident in the UK and after leaving her country of origin....

Here at Danielle Cohen Immigration Solicitors we handle all aspects of UK immigration law on a daily basis but some cases are rarer than others.  We were recently involved in an unusual immigration case involving statelessness....

Here at Danielle Cohen Immigration Solicitors in London we recently handled a very moving case involving a child abandoned in the UK by one of his biological parents. We are sharing it here as an example of a case involving the effective overlap between family and immigration law and another case in which we were able to achieve a successful and compassionate outcome for our client....