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The Courts will continue to operate throughout the four-week period of lockdown as usual, the Courts are among the public services that will stay open and people required to attend Court will be able to leave home for this purpose.  The legal...

On 19th March 2020 the Lord Chancellor approved the practice direction made by Senior President of the Tribunal which stated that during the Covid19 Pandemic, Tribunals will have to change the way of working to limit the spread of the virus and...

The  Home Office have issued new guidance on how to deal with foreign nationals who are unable to leave the UK due to the travel restrictions in place associated with coronavirus (covid-19), or alternatively due to self-isolation due to...

Danielle Cohen and Helen Taylor, a caseworker at the firm, have collaborated together to write an article commenting on gender inequality within the legal profession. The article has been published in the Law Gazette and reflects on both the...

Occasionally when an applicant makes a Human Rights application the Secretary of State will refuse it and state that the application is clearly unfounded. The case of Mohammad Racheed v SSHD [2019] introduced an important point of law which is...

Tier 4 changes came into effect on 6th April 2019. The Home Office introduced Appendix X which includes “low risk” nationalities. Nationals listed within this Appendix can provide a lesser degree of documentary evidence in Tier 4...

The Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) route is to be replaced by the new Start-Up category from 29th March 2019. Those making an application under this category do not need access to investment funds and no longer need to be graduates. They will,...

The Tier 1 Entrepreneur category no longer exists. The Immigration Minister said that the Entrepreneur route has a long tail of low-quality projects. In place of the Entrepreneur Visa comes the Innovator Visa. The Innovator category is intended...

Under the investor visa routes, investment funds of £2m will now have to be held for a full two years rather than 90 days before an application is made and there will be tighter rules on what can be invested. In particular Government Bonds will...

The Migration Watch released a publication in February 2019 saying that post-Brexit, the UK visa proposals would lead to record levels of Immigration. However, shortly afterwards a non-political think-tank issued a second press release saying...