The UK expansion worker visa is part of the global business mobility route. It enables overseas businesses seeking to expand into the UK to temporarily assign

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The rules relating to refusal periods for the majority of applicants are at part Suitability of the Immigration Rules.  

The Home Office has published new guidance today on the process that merges the asylum screening interview and the substantive interview into one. This was

The Court of Appeal has dismissed two sponsor licence revocation appeals and answers two questions that often emerge in revocation challenges.

Asylum & human rights, 28 Sep 2026. Updated the booklet to include information about the Single Protection Interview. Via Free Movement's Immigration Updates Dashboard.

The High Court has quashed the fourth refusal of an Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) application made by a former Afghan Anti-Terrorism Court

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The Home Office has driven sponsor licence revocations in the care sector to a record high, for anything from exploitation to compliance issues.

The Immigration Advice Authority has announced a major overhaul of its competence assessments. There are new syllabuses at every level, an additional ethics

A decision to treat an appeal as abandoned is an ‘excluded’ decision and there is no right of appeal to the Upper Tribunal.

Lords Committee questions quality control after the March 2026 statement of changes deleted Appendix Visitor: Transit Without Visa Scheme.

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The Home Office has been treating some grants of EU pre-settled status as having been granted in error because it has misunderstood when Italian citizenship

A judge has raised concerns that a large number of immigration appeals heard in the UK courts may have been illegitimate.

Parliamentary question, 21 Sep 2026. Over 70% of asylum claims from Q3 2025 decided within 6 months—highest rate since Q1 2016, indicating improved processing times. Via Free Movement's Immigration Updates Dashboard.

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Former barrister and passionate advocate for the rights of migrants Jim Gillespie died on 12 September 2006. I was a colleague of Jim's at the now-defunct

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While some rules are just fiddly and frustrating, others do real harm

The court held that the Home Office was entitled to certify this protection claim as clearly unfounded under section 94 of the NIAA 2002.

Relying on a mandatory ground for revoking a sponsor licence does not relieve the Home Secretary of her common law duty of procedural fairness, the High Court

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What Is Immigration Policy For?; This book explores what immigration policy seeks to achieve and why so many people end up unhappy with the outcome. Drawing on decades of research and examples from hi...

Having independent expert evidence in the form of a report can often bolster a case. How much weight a decision-maker gives a report will much depend on its

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