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Сегодня, под Новый Год, Еще 2 клиента получили ПМЖ (ILR) в Великобритании по рабочей и супружеской категориям. Заявления клиентов были рассмотрены и одобрены за 1 день по т.н. 24-hour Super Priority Service. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений решение клиентов.

Сегодня. Еще один клиент получил положительное решение по т.н. категории "Частная жизнь". Это сложное заявление рассмотрели и одобрили за 11 месяцев. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений решение клиентов.

Еще одна клиентка получила ПМЖ (ILR) в Великобритании. Клиентка сначала неудачно попробовала подать заявление самостоятельно, и у нее возникла проблема с Home Office. Клиентка попросила наш Legal Centre помочь. Я подготовил новое ("замещающее") заявление клиентки и сегодня новое заявление было одобрено по т.н. 5-day Priority Service. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов нашего Legal Centre.

22 December 2023 Important UK Immigration News and Updates from the Legal Centre www.legalcentre.org +44 77 911 45 923 (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Skype) >>> Article 8 not automatically engaged by a refusal under the EU settlement scheme: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/IAC/2023/293.html In Dani (non-removal human rights submissions) Albania UKUT 293 (IAC) the Upper Tribunal has said that an application made under the EU settlement scheme does not in itself amount to a human rights claim. This is yet another case where people trying to access their rights under the EU settlement scheme have been penalised owing to an inability to get married during the pandemic. Background The Home Secretary rejected the appellant’s application for pre-settled status on the basis that the marriage took place after 31 December 2020 and the appellant had not been issued with a relevant document which meant he could not meet the definition of “durable partner”. It was argued that the decision to refuse the appellant’s EU settlement scheme application breached his article 8 rights. There was also an attempt to broaden the ability to raise human rights arguments at appeal beyond the limitations at section 113(1) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 by arguing that a refusal of leave to remain was a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Upper Tribunal’s decision These arguments were dismissed by the Upper Tribunal. The headnote says: 1. The mere refusal of leave to remain under the EUSS is not, without more, a “human rights claim” under section 113(1) of the 2002 Act. 2. Consequently, the “new matter” regime does not regulate the Tribunal’s consideration of non-removal human rights submissions. 3. But the Tribunal may only consider matters which it thinks are “relevant to the substance of the decision appealed against”. 4. Whether Article 8 is engaged by a decision to refuse an EUSS application is not “relevant to the substance of the decision appealed against”; the Tribunal cannot not consider it. The Tribunal does not enjoy a broad, unencumbered jurisdiction to consider non-removal human rights submissions at large. 5. In any event, Article 8 will not, without more, be engaged by a decision to refuse leave to remain under the EUSS. 6. Section 7(1)(b) of the Human Rights Act 1998 does not permit an appellant to advance a free-standing Article 8 claim in proceedings before the First-tier Tribunal. Conclusion The position therefore remains that where someone wants to raise human rights in an appeal against the refusal of an application made under the EU settlement scheme, if they have not previously raised human rights as part of the application then they will need consent from the Home Secretary to raise this as a “new matter” under regulation 9(5) of the Immigration (Citizens’ Rights Appeals) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020. As was the case with Mr Celik and Mr Allaraj, Mr Dani will now presumably need to seek a grant of leave under Appendix FM in order to remain in the country with his wife.

Еще один клиент с Украины получил BRP по т.н Украинской Схеме. Первоначально клиент имел дело с агентом-мощенником который, судя по всему, так и не подал заявление клиента по украинской схеме, а вместо этого просто подделал письмо-разрешение на въезд в Великобританию. Клиент ждал решения почти 1,5 года, отчаянно подавая все новые и новые заявления, так как его «агент» перестал отвечать на его сообщения. В конце концов клиент обратился в наш Legal Centre с просьбой вмешаться. Результат ? Выдача BRP по украинской схеме за ОДИН день с момента обращения в наш Legal Centre. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений решений клиентов.

POSSIBLE GOOD NEWS for the Ukrainian applicants who used the bogus agents and came into the UK with the non-genuine Homes for Ukraine (H4U) "approval" letters. Those applicants would be waiting for their BRPs for months or even 1.5 years now. ВОЗМЖНО ХОРОШИЕ НОВОСТИ ДЛЯ ГРАЖДАН УКРАИНЫ, КТО СТАЛИ ЖЕРТВАМИ ИММИГРАЦИОННЫХ МОШЕННИКОВ (т.е. кто въехал в Великобританию по, скорее всего, фальшивым письмам-одобрениеям по, например, cхеме Homes for Ukraine). Такие заявители обычно ждут BRP месяцами. Есть случаи ожидания BRP уже на протяжении 1.5 года. Previously the Home Office would just reject such an application. Now something has apparently changed, and the Home Office is sending such victims of immigration fraud the short pro-formas, inviting the applicants to complete them with the view to switching into the Ukrainian Extension Scheme (UES). See the attached pro-forma example. I hope it helps.

Еще одна клиентка получила BRP как жена британского гражданина. Заявление рассмотрели и одобрили за 1 день. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

Сегодня. Это заявление клиентки на натурализацию как жены британца было рассмотрено и одобрено Home Office за 4 месяца. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

Еще одна клиентка получила одобрение по визе Home for Ukraine. Сначала Home Office задержал выдачу визы, но после запуска т.н. процесса эскалации виза была выдана. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов нашего Legal Centre.

Еще одна клиентка перешла со студенческий визы на визу супруги британского гражданина. Заявление FLR(M) рассмотрели и одобрили за 1 день. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

Еще одна клиентка стала британской гражданкой. Заявление по натурализации рассмотрели и одобрили за 5 месяцев. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

13 December 2023 Important UK Immigration News and Updates from the Legal Centre www.legalcentre.org +44 77 911 45 923 (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Skype) >>> Court of Appeal: raising an entirely new issue in a determination for the first time is unfair: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2023/1455.html It is well established that the requirements of procedural fairness will very often require that a person who may be adversely affected by a decision is given an opportunity to make representations before the decision is taken with a view to producing a favourable result. There is a duty to give fair notice of the concerns which a decision maker has and to give a fair opportunity to respond to those concerns. In Abdi & Ors v Entry Clearance Officer [2023] EWCA Civ 1455 the Court of Appeal considers these principles in the context of a First-tier Tribunal appeal from the dependent family members of an EEA national.

Еще одна клиентка получила ПМЖ в Великобритании как жена британского гражданина. Заявление SET(M) рассмотрели и одобрили за 1 день. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

12 December 2023 Important UK Immigration News and Updates from the Legal Centre www.legalcentre.org +44 77 911 45 923 (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Skype) >>> The UK E-visas will be rolled from around April 2024, beginning with the Skilled Worker route The BRPs will be replaced by the E-visas in 2024. The Home Office is also preparing the video on how to access the E-visa portal etc. Applicants MUST link their passport to their E-visa though the Home Office E-visa portal as otherwise they WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RETURN TO THE UK, PROVE EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ETC.

12 December 2023 Important UK Immigration News and Updates from the Legal Centre www.legalcentre.org +44 77 911 45 923 (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Skype) >>> Yet again the immigration exception to data protection found unlawful: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2023/1474.html The Court of Appeal has declared the government’s second attempt at an immigration exception for normal data protection law to be unlawful. The judgment in R (On the Application Of The 3Million) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 1474 upholds that of the High Court below, which we covered previously here: Amended data protection exemption for migrants declared unlawful. The case was brought by the 3million group.

Еще 2 клиента - мама с ребенком - стали британскими гражданами. Home Office попробовал запросить дополнительные и ненужные документы. Пришлось подготовить детальный ответ по необоснованности требований Home Office. Заявления были одобрены за 5 месяцев. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобренных заявлений клиентов.

Вот так выглядят Email из Home Office, сообщающие об одобрениях заявлений клиентов. Сегодня клиенты получили одобрения по категориям Graduate Route Visa и Global Talent visa. Заявления рассмотрели и одобрили за 3 недели. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

08 December 2023 Important UK Immigration News and Updates from the Legal Centre www.legalcentre.org +44 77 911 45 923 (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Skype) >>> Using the ‘UK Immigration: ID Check’ app for Ukraine nationals is no longer permitted: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-uk-immigration-id-check-app-for-ukraine-nationals?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=2cffe370-9c98-4b14-a3df-7d6168f4b09e&utm_content=daily You can no longer use the ‘UK Immigration: ID Check’ app to complete the identity verification stage of your Ukraine scheme visa application. Prove your identity and providing your documents You’ll need to book an appointment to have your photograph and fingerprints taken at a visa application centre (VAC) as part of your application. Children under the age of 5 will not have their fingerprints taken but will still need to book and attend a VAC appointment and have a digital photograph taken. At your appointment, you’ll need to prove your identity with any identity documents you may have such as: • a valid passport • a Ukrainian national identity card • a combination of official documents – for example, a photo driving licence and birth certificate -* an emergency certificate issued by a Ukrainian authority since March 2022 After you’ve applied You will need to wait for a decision from UK Visas and Immigration on your application before travelling to the UK. If your application is approved, you’ll need to return to collect your visa before you travel to the UK. This visa will allow you to board a plane or other form of transport to the UK. If you attended your biometrics appointment in Kyiv and your visa application is successful, you’ll need to travel to the VAC in Warsaw with a valid international passport to collect your visa vignette. If you had an appointment in another country, you’ll need to collect your visa vignette at the same VAC you submitted your biometrics. Do not go to the visa application centre to collect your visa until you have been contacted. You’ll be able to pick up your biometric residence permit once you’re in the UK. Your biometric residence permit can be used to confirm your status and rights in the UK. >>> Changes to the UK Immigration Rules: (most interesting points) Changes to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) - To prevent a valid application to the EUSS as a joining family member being made by an irregular arrival to the UK (which will include small boat arrivals) as well as by an illegal entrant to the UK, thereby reinforcing the Government’s approach to tackling illegal migration - To require a person in the UK as a visitor to make any application to the EUSS as a joining family member within three months of their arrival (subject to reasonable grounds for any delay in applying). This is consistent with the temporary protection of rights conferred on them by the Citizens’ Rights Agreements for three months from their arrival in the UK. - To require a person in the UK as a visitor to make any application to the EUSS as a joining family member within three months of their arrival (subject to reasonable grounds for any delay in applying). This is consistent with the temporary protection of rights conferred on them by the Citizens’ Rights Agreements for three months from their arrival in the UK Changes to the Visitor Rule - To amend the permitted intra-corporate activities to remove the prohibition on working directly with clients and are introducing a requirement that client facing activity is incidental to the visitor’s employment abroad and does not amount to the offshoring of a project or service to their overseas employer - To make clear that visitors are permitted to work remotely whilst they are in the UK but that remote working must not be the primary purpose of their visit - To allow scientists, researchers and academics to conduct research in the UK as part of their visit. Currently scientists and researchers can only conduct independent research, and academics can only conduct research for their own purposes if they are on sabbatical leave from their home institution. These changes will not apply to academics applying for a 12 month visit visa, or if they are applying to extend their permission from within the UK - To expand the permitted activities for legal professionals - To allow speakers at conferences to be paid for this activity, by including this in the list of Permitted Paid Engagements (PPE) - To move the provisions of the Permitted Paid Engagement Visitor route into the Standard Visitor route. This means all visitors will be able to undertake PPE without the need for a special visa. However, visitors intending to undertake PPE must still have arranged their PPE activity prior to travel to the UK, and this must be undertaken within 30 days of arrival in the UK as a Visitor Introduction of new Appendix Bereaved Partner Appendix Bereaved Partner replaces existing provisions for Bereaved Partners and their dependent children in Part 8, Appendix FM and Appendix Armed Forces of the Immigration Rules. Introduction of new Appendix Victim of Domestic Abuse - Appendix Victim of Domestic Abuse replaces existing provisions for Victims of Domestic Abuse and their dependent children in Part 8, Appendix FM and Appendix Armed Forces of the Immigration Rules. This will provide a single set of Victim of Domestic Abuse rules for those applying for settlement - Appendix Victim of Domestic Abuse replaces existing provisions for Victims of Domestic Abuse and their dependent children in Part 8, Appendix FM and Appendix Armed Forces of the Immigration Rules. This will provide a single set of Victim of Domestic Abuse rules for those applying for settlement. Introduction of new Appendix Statelessness - A partner or child will not be able to apply for entry clearance, permission to stay or settlement under Appendix Stateless from the 16 January 2024 - Where a partner or child of a Stateless Person are not themselves stateless or are overseas, they may apply to come to or stay in the UK under the family provisions in Appendix FM. The existing provision in Appendix FM have been amended to allow a Stateless person to sponsor a partner and dependent child - Other changes allow Stateless applicants to combine time on other routes that allow an applicant to qualify for settlement after a 5 year qualifying period. To combine time on other routes the applicant must not have entered the UK illegally and must have had permission on the stateless route for at least 1 year at the date of application for settlement Changes to Appendix Innovator Founder A change is being made to correct a drafting error in the 17 July 2023 Rules changes (HC 1496) relating to switching conditions from the Student route to the Innovator Founder route. PhD students can apply to switch having completed 24 months of study (not 12). Changes to Part 5 To delete from Part 5 the indefinite leave to remain provisions from the following: Private Servant in a diplomatic household, Overseas government employees, and airport based operational ground staff of overseas-owned airlines. These routes had been closed for some time (although some have successor routes). Those on these routes can count that time towards settlement under Long Residence or Private Life routes.

Еще одна клиентка получила ПМЖ (ILR) в Великобритании как жена британца. Заявление SET(M) рассмотрели и одобрили за 1 день. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

05 December 2023 Important UK Immigration News and Updates from the Legal Centre www.legalcentre.org +44 77 911 45 923 (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Skype) >>> Supreme Court dismisses appeals in validity and continuous residence case See R (Afzal) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 46 >>> Minor immigration tribunal procedure rule changes announced Two minor but welcome changes to the immigration tribunal procedure rules. Firstly, the Upper Tribunal: Rule 3 amends the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2698) (“Upper Tribunal Rules”) to omit rule 22A (special procedure for providing notice of a refusal of permission to appeal in an asylum case) to restore the requirement under rule 22 of those rules for the Upper Tribunal to serve a copy of its decision to refuse permission to appeal in an asylum case on the appellant. Rule 3 also makes consequential amendments to rules 22(1) (decision in relation to permission to appeal) and rule 40(2) (decisions) of the Upper Tribunal Rules to omit references to rule 22A in those rules. Secondly, the First-tier Tribunal: Rule 5 amends the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/2604) to clarify the time limits that apply to an appeal against a decision of the Home Office in relation to the EU Settlement Scheme that is also subject to an administrative review, where a decision on administrative review has been made, or the application for an administrative review has been withdrawn prior to a decision on administrative review having been determined.

05 December 2023 Important UK Immigration News and Updates from the Legal Centre www.legalcentre.org +44 77 911 45 923 (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Skype) 5 пунктов по сокращению британской иммиграции >>> UK Immigration Reduction Plan: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24946723/rishi-sunak-five-step-plan-migration/?fbclid=IwAR12nBjAyNu0hsUrlwVz4q095Uoyz45vjbqWUTEIzHTKguMsfJ0p2wWGdJ0 - Care Crackdown: Ban foreign workers in homes from bringing in their family members. - Salary Hike: Skilled workers to earn at least £38,700, up from £26,200. - No Cheap Labour: Rules letting bosses hire for 20% less than going rate to be axed. - Family Values: People on a family visa must have a sponsor earning £38,700. - Graduate Route Review: A review of the graduate route for immigrants will be launched.

Абсолютный рекорд на сегодняшний день: заявление по категории Ukrainian Extension Scheme (UES) было рассмотрено и одобрено за 1 день. Интересно то, что у этого клиента 2 гражданства. В Великобритании он находился по визе, оформленной не в украинском паспорте. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

Сегодня. Еще один клиент стал британским гражданином. Заявление (AN - Naturalization) одобрили за 6 месяцев. Делюсь статистикой ежедневных одобрений заявлений клиентов.

30th November 2023 Important UK Immigration News and Updates from the Legal Centre www.legalcentre.org +44 77 911 45 923 (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Skype) >>> From March 2024 the Home Office intends to start issuing the Digital Visas only as well as offer the applicants in the UK >>> From summer 2024 the Home Office will be writing to the applicants to register for the UK VI online accounts. Note that the digital visas will be “connected” to the passports. That means, that if you change your passport, you will need to update your UK VI online account.

23 November 2023 – Just useful and interesting UK & EEA Immigration Law news and updates from the Legal Centre – Open 7 days a week - www.legalcentre.org - +44(0)3300010342, +44(0)7791145923 (WhatsApp/Viber) >>> ILPA AGM on 22 November 2023: Home Office is going mad ILPA has informed that the Home Office considers reducing the the net migration by: - Min salary may be rased to £40 000 for Skilled Workers - Only 1 dependent may be allowed to enter the UK with the main applicant