Immigration Lawyer: UK, EU, EEA and worldwide

15/05/2020

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_20_895

Highlights, press releases and speeches

10/08/2018

A dozen invited authors have found themselves unable to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival after being refused a visit visa, calling the application process "Kafkaesque". It's caused a fuss in the press, but this is business as usual for the Home Office: over a quarter of a million visit visa applications are refused every year. There are very limited rights of appeal.

04/08/2018

Please Sign Today: https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/31/public/ #/ Music: https://soundcloud.com/user-871761295/bye A film by Conrad Simpson.

04/08/2018

https://www.eucitizen2017.org

General information about European Citizen, in Nottingham

04/07/2018

Nine people will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 17 July.

25/05/2018

On 14 February 2018 the Home Affairs Committee published its Third Report of Session 2017–19, Home Office delivery of Brexit: immigration (HC 421). The Government’s response was received on 16 May 2018 and is appended to this report.

25/05/2018

More details about how the Home Office envisages the Brexit settled scheme working emerged last week. Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, wrote to Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator about the application process.

26/01/2018

In the midst of an “NHS crisis”, with two in three hospitals said to have a shortage of doctors, immigration laws appear to be making the situation worse. Dr Syed Kazmi, who works at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, is reportedly due to be removed from the UK by the end of the week.

17/11/2017

The Supreme Court has decided that Zambrano carers are not eligible to contribution-based benefits which have a "right to reside" test.

13/11/2017

https://www.freemovement.org.uk/an-immigration-lawyer-reviews-paddington-2-hostile-environment/

The portrayal of life in the UK as an illegal immigrant in Paddington 2 was utterly unreal - our hero would find live far more difficult in real life.

13/11/2017

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/brexit/2017/07/how-can-people-uk-retain-eu-citizenship-after-brexit

It's possible, but it's not easy.

13/11/2017

Brexit and the implications for UK nationality

This second edition of the QNI also interrogates the quality of a post ‘hard Brexit’ British nationality, comparing it to its current status. According to Kochenov, a hard Brexit could leave the UK with a nationality that doesn’t enjoy settlement and work rights in 30 leading states, overwhelmingly impairing the quality of its nationality. The QNI research shows that even if you presume no economic loss to the UK as a result of leaving the EU and focus only on the external rather than internal components of nationality quality, the UK will be in a free fall in terms of its quality, losing its value very sharply and by far exceeding the losses experienced by the countries in the midst of bitter political and armed conflicts, as well as divided societies whose nationalities are at the forefront of failing to perform, such as the Syrian and Libyan nationalities.

“The UK is about to establish a world record in terms of profoundly undermining the quality of its nationality without going through any violent conflict, falling from the elite group of Extremely High Quality nationalities to the Very High Quality group, changing its neighbors in the ranking from the likes of Switzerland and Germany to the likes of Brazil and Romania. The moral is simple: EU citizenship is an extremely valuable resource and getting rid of it — crippling citizens’ horizon of opportunities — should not be taken lightly,” Kochenov concludes.