Further Updates

2012

5 April 2012
Update 46

  • Changes to Immigration Rules
  • Overseas Domestic Workers
  • Immigration Fees
  • Victims of Domestic Violence
  • Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) - archived files
  • Dental X-rays of age disputed asylum-seekers
  • Appeals to the Court of Appeal
  • Legal Aid Bill

23 February 2012
Update 45

  • Legal Aid Bill
  • Immigration Fees
  • Biometric Residence Permits
  • Students
  • Points Based System
  • Libyan nationals in the UK

27 January 2012
Update 44

  • Legal Aid Bill
  • Bulgarians and Romanians
  • Appeals Fees
  • English language requirements
  • Biometric Residence Permits
  • Points Based System
  • Strategic Legal Fund for refugee children's cases

2011

10 November 2011
Update 43

  • Marriage Age Requirement
  • Legacy Cases
  • Legal Aid
  • Tier 2 Workers
  • Students from India, Pakistan and the Philippines
  • NHS charges

9 September 2011
Update 42 

  • Students
  • Relatives of Points Based System migrants
  • Asylum Screening Unit
  • Family Returns
  • HM Inspectorate of Prisons
  • Legal Aid Bill

15 August 2011
Update 41  

  • New ILPA website
  • Legal Aid Bill
  • Asylum Screening Unit
  • Bail Guidance for Immigration Judges
  • Section 4 Asylum Support

3 August 2011  
Update 40

  • New UK Border Agency Chief Executive
  • Consultations on family migration and workers migration
  • Immigration Advisory Service
  • Legacy Cases
  • Detention of children
  • Common Travel Area and detention in Northern Ireland
  • English language tests

24 June 2011 
Update 39

  • Legal Aid
  • Settlement consultation
  • Students
  • Workers
  • New applications forms - European cases

1 June 2011 
Update 38

  • Asylum Improvement Project
  • Immigration detention
  • Evidence that may be relied upon at appeal
  • UK Border Agency business plan 2011-2015
  • Legal Aid

20 April 2011
Update 37

  • Prime Ministers Speech
  • Immigration Rules
  • Students
  • Immigration Fees
  • Libyan Nationals in the UK

30 March 2011
Update 36

  • Immigration Rules
  • Age requirement for married and civil partners
  • Students
  • Shortage Occupations (Tier 2 of the Points Based System)
  • Eastern European Nationals
  • Removals of families

9 February 2011
Update 35

  • Legal Aid
  • Children
  • Points Based System - shortage occupations
  • Revised policy guidance
  • Immigration Minister's speech

6 January 2011
Update 34

  • Legal Aid
  • Children
  • Revised Policy Guidance
  • Withdrawal of R(S) Policy

2010

23 December 2010 
Update 33

  • Legal Aid
  • Age requirement for married and civil partners
  • Interim economic migration cap
  • Migrant Students

25 November 2010
Update 32

  • Legal Aid
  • Students
  • Economic migration cap
  • Applications for repayment of fees for certificate of approval to marry
  • Zimbabwe
  • Points Based System - refusals on maintenance grounds

1 September 2010
Update 31

  • Applications for permission to work
  • New English Language Requirements
  • UK Border Agency survey of settlement requirements
  • Legal representatives and same day service
  • Refugee family reunion

10 August 2010
Update 30

  • Minimum notice required before removal
  • Asylum Seekers and permission to work
  • Points Based System - changes for students and new forms
  • Certificates of approval for marriage
  • Detention of children
  • Evidence of permission to work
  • Homeless EEA nationals

21 July 2010
Update 29

  • Legal Aid
  • Economic Migration Cap
  • Points Based System - recent judgments
  • Refugees granted leave to remain for five years
  • Lesbian and gay asylum-seekers

21 June 2010 
Update 28

  • Coalition Government
  • Ending the detention of children
  • Students
  • Language requirements for partners
  • Points Based System - Tier 2
  • UK Border Agency Website

16 March 2010 
Update 27

  • Investigations in the work of the UK Border Agency
  • Immigration Fees
  • Detention
  • Students
  • Students and workers
  • UK Border Agency strategy documents

4 February 2010
Update 26

  • Removals and judicial review
  • Transfer of the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal
  • Age Assessments
  • Students
  • British citizenship
  • Immigration and nationality fees

2009

23 December 2009 
Update 25

  • Identity cards and biometrics
  • Migration Advisory Committee report
  • Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency
  • Draft Immigration Bill
  • Minimum age for partners
  • Third party support

30 October 2009 
Update 24

  • Making asylum claims and further submissions
  • Human provenance pilot
  • Zimbabwe
  • Points Based System - shortage occupation list
  • Points Based System - sponsors
  • Points Based System - students

30 September 2009 
Update 23

  • Making asylum claims and further submissions
  • Human provenance pilot
  • Local Immigration Teams
  • Access to healthcare
  • Case Resolution Directorate - legacy cases
  • Turkish business migrants
  • Immigration and citizenship fees

31 July 2009
Update 22

  • ILPA information service
  • Legacy cases
  • Certificates of Approval - Refund of fees
  • Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009
  • Naturalisation - how certain migrants may become British citizens
  • Other news

12 June 2009
Update 21

  • Immigration Appeals
  • Immigration Advice - regulation
  • HSMP judgment
  • Gurkhas
  • Turkish nationals in the UK
  • Application forms
  • Legacy  cases
  • Glasgow Voluntary Returns Project

27 April 2009   
Update 20

  • Borders Citizenship and Immigration Bill
  • HSMP judgment
  • Gurkhas
  • Eastern European workers
  • Immigration fees
  • Certificate of approval (marriage)
  • UK Border Agency
  • Children in detention
  • Age disputes

24 April 2009
Update 19

  • Trafficking
  • Points Based System - students and workers
  • Applications for indefinite leave to remain (ILR)
  • Access to healthcare
  • Zimbabwe
  • UK Border Agency plans for 2009

3 February 2009
Update 18

  • Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill
  • Judicial Review and Removals
  • National Audit Office
  • Domestic servants
  • Detention policy
  • Code of practice on keeping children safe from harm
  • Complaints Audit Committee

2008

10 December 2008
Update 17

  • Queen's speech
  • New immigraition minister
  • Points Based System
  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Seven year child concession
  • Identity cards
  • Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo

29 September 2008
Update 16

  • Identity cards
  • Points Based System
  • Permission to work - asylum seekers
  • Immigration appeals
  • Asylum support
  • UK immigration policy and children

18 August 2008  
Update 15

  • Draft Partial Immigration and Citizenship Bill
  • Points Based System
  • Families of EEA Nationals
  • Common Travel Area
  • 'Automatic' deportation
  • Destitution

5 August 2008  
Update 14

  • Simplification
  • Draft (Partial) Immigration and Citizenship Bill
  • Citizenship
  • Marriage Immigraiton
  • Points Based System
  • Right to marry judgment

6 July 2008 
Update 13

  • Points Based System
  • Legacy cases
  • Enforcement business plan 2008/9
  • Visitors to the UK
  • Economic impact of migration
  • Application forms for an extension of stay

29 May 2008
Update 12

  • Immigration rule changes
  • Legacy cases
  • Simplification
  • Points Based System
  • UK Border Agency surveys
  • Access to healthcare for foreign nationals in the UK

25 March 2008
Update 11

  • Children Act 2004, section 11
  • Code of Practice on safeguarding children
  • Points Based System
  • Naturalisation applications
  • Enforcement instructions and guidance
  • Further leave for those who do not meet the English and life in the UK requirements for indefinite leave to remain
  • Legacy cases  

21 March 2008
Update 10

  • Uk Borders Act 2007
  • Immigration rule changes
  • UK Borders Agency
  • Citizenship
  • Simplification
  • Biometric Identity Cards
  • Iraqi and Zimbabwean refused asylum seekers 

18 January 2008
Update 9

  • Home Office 10-point plan
  • European Refugee Fund 2008-10
  • Review of Citizenship
  • Visitors to the UK
  • Unaccompanied children seeking asylum: 'reform' plrogramme
  • Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
  • Race Relations Audit of Immigration Removal Centres
  • Illegal working
  • Legacy cases 

2007

13 December 2007
Update 8

  • UK Borders Act 2007
  • Points Based System
  • Marriage and immigration
  • Darfur and Zimbabwe decisions
  • Legal Aid
  • Simplification
  • Migration Advisory Committee

24 October 2007  
Update 7

  • Legal Aid
  • Bills in Parliament
  • The economic impact of migrants
  • Borders and Immigration Agency Website
  • Removals to Sudan, Iraq,Democratic Republic of Congo,  Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka

14 September 2007
Update 6

  • Legacy cases
  • Bills in parliament
  • Still Human Still Here
  • Bail for Immigration Detainees' Report on Yarl's Wood
  • Democratic Republic of Congo judgment
  • Migration Advisory Committee Chair Appointment
  • Migrants Rights Network newsletter

1 August 2007  
Update 5

  • Legacy cases
  • Legal Aid
  • Independent Police Complaints Commission
  • Unified Border Force
  • Refugee integration
  • Points Based System - student sponsors

1 August 2007
Update 4

  • UK Borders Bill
  • Simplification Bill
  • Border and Immigration Agency Business Plan
  • Foreign National Prisoners
  • Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
  • Section 9 evaluation

30 May 2007
Update 3

  • UK Borders Bill
  • Age dispute research
  • Illegal working
  • Marriage in the UK
  • Legacy cases
  • Domestic violence

11 April 2007
Update 2

  • Border and Immigration Agency
  • UK Borders Bill
  • New Immigration Fees
  • Unaccompanied children seeking asylum
  • Zimbawean and Darfuri asylum cases
  • Legacy cases
  • Legal aid

5 March 2007
Update 1

  • New ILPA Project
  • UK Borders Bill
  • New language and knowledge tests for applications for settlement in the UK
  • New Asylum Model (NAM)
  • Other Information

 


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