Category Archives: Asylum
New Guide for the end of 2016!
Click the link below and open the pdf guide to immigration changes made in November and December 2016.
There are even further immigration changes expected in 2017 and in particular with the coming into force fully in February 2017 of the 2016 EEA Regulations, both immigration practitioners and lay applicants are expected to be fairly au fait with the changes so as to be able to prepare applications with a fair chance of success.
A Guide to the November and December 2016 changes
Coming Full Circle: Scrapping Of The Recent Immigration Tribunal Appeal Fee Increase
Only a month and two weeks after the coming into force of the massive increase to the immigration Tribunal fees, the Government announced suddenly on 25 November 2016 that it was abandoning the rise of up to 500% in immigration tribunal fees.
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New Immigration and Appeals Tribunal Fees Increase Guidance
Two separate sets of fees Guidance have been published catering for Home Office decisions dated between 19 December 2011 and 9 October 2016 and decisions made on or after 10 October 2016.
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The Increase to Immigration Tribunal Appeal Fees: What Appellants Need to Know
In relation to Tribunal Fees, the Government Response to the consultation on proposals for the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), was published on 15 September 2016.
The document sets out the Government Response to the consultation, Consultation on proposals for the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), published on 21 April 2016.
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Zimbabwean Asylum Claimants And The New Political Movement: Are The Home Office & Tribunal “Getting it” ?
There clearly is a new protest political movement emerging in Zimbabwe being propelled substantially by social media. Where this
continues in the long term ( if not suppressed ), and where claimants associated with such movements seek protection in the UK, then current rigid UK asylum country guidance caselaw, CM (EM country guidance; disclosure) Zimbabwe CG [2013] UKUT 59 (IAC), becomes increasingly redundant.
The current question is whether the Home Office together with the Tribunal understand the true nature and extent of the new movement and how it impacts upon claimant’s cases upon application or appeal. Simply put, are they “getting it ”? If not and where the guidance in CM obscures consideration of claims from persons associated with such movements, then there is an inevitable adverse impact upon considerations of risk on return and entitlement to protection for affected claimants.