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Сегодня. Еще одна клиентка Legal Centre из Латвии стал британской гражданкой. Клиентка не работала некоторое время и у нее не было частной медицинской страховки. Благодаря усилиям Legal Centre заявление одобрили за 2 месяца. Делюсь статистикой.

15 November 2021 – 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) >>> Dependent family members in work routes: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjJxPqe1Zr0AhWHUcAKHeYiBnkQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1032583%2FDependent_family_members_in_work_routes.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2FrVT1_kx5nW5nrmUUmVI0 Co-habitation requirements for unmarried partners have been clarified; guidance on exceptional circumstances for parents where the other parent cannot travel; clarifying the status requirement of a second parent; updating references in line with recent rules changes; clarifying how to address children from previous relationships. >>> Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_source=52a07b70-a437-4596-bbc7-62c4b36d9ea3&utm_content=immediately Information on extended processing times for standard visitor visas. >>> Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/prove-your-english-language-abilities-with-a-secure-english-language-test-selt?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_source=6668010b-064b-43b7-9b1d-46efa2310acf&utm_content=immediately List of test centres in the UK and outside the UK updated on the GOV.UK website >> Grounds for refusal: criminality: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjUgIeC1Zr0AhWYQUEAHcCTCnYQFnoECAIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F965508%2Fgrounds_for_refusal_criminality_casework_guidance.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2a_9GqV_DI-WcOy1Lp9Bqk Updated guidance on criminal history for entry clearance applications in the UK.

Приветствую, Клиентке с Украины в октябре рассмотрели за 3 недели. Зависит от того, как подготовить заявление. Большинство клиентов выбирают 24-hour service, в то же время. Вот, вчера клиентке (в воскресенье) одобрили ее FLR(M). Присоединяйтесь :-)

Хорошее начало недели. Клиенты, мать и дочь из России. Продление виз по категории "жена британца" (формально - Appendix FM Partner, заявление FLR(M). Подавали по Super Premium Service. Заявление одобрили в воскресенье :-), в течение 1 дня. Делюсь статистикой.

12 November 2021 – 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) >>> Liars can still be genuine trafficking victims: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/3019.html Some important points on inconsistency and credibility in trafficking cases from David Lock QC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge: "The expert evidence in this case from Mr Steve Harvey, who has long experience in the police and in Europol in trafficking matters, is that he has never known a trafficking case where there were no inconsistencies in the account of events given by the victim. Inconsistencies may, of course, be evidence to suggest that a person is lying but in this context it is important decision makers recognise that there are many other potential explanations for inconsistencies." And: "In a case where a person has suffered substantial trauma from repeated beatings and other unspeakable behaviour at the hands of those who controlled him, the psychological consequences of those events may result in the applicant’s recollection of events being entirely incoherent and thus of no value at all in deciding what had happened to him or he may continue to be so fearful of those who were controlling him that he may deny there was any abuse, coercion or forced labour. This is expressly recognised in the Guidance. In such a case, the applicant may be lying or his account of events may have no value whatsoever but the evidence of the physical or psychological condition of the individual will nonetheless be more than sufficient evidence that the person was a victim of trafficking."

Хорошее окончание недели. Еще один клиент с Украины получил EU Settled Status - ILR. В данном случае заявление подавалось Out of Time, т.е. после 30-06-2021. Тем не менее, благодаря нашим усилиям, заявление рассмотрели положительно за 3 месяца. Делюсь статистикой.

Сегодня. Клиентка из России. Заявление на гражданство. Рассмотрели за 2.5 месяца. Делюсь статистикой.

11 November 2021 – 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) >>> Immigration Enforcement to decide human trafficking claims: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-slavery-how-to-identify-and-support-victims Immigration Enforcement has been given the power to decide whether or not someone is a victim of human trafficking. An update to the Modern Slavery guidance, published on 8 November, includes an “Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority” alongside what was the sole, centralised decision-making body, the “Single Competent Authority”. The Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority is responsible for: "- All adult Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) detained in an Immigration Removal Centre. - All adult FNOs in prison where a decision to deport has been made. - All adult FNOs in prison where a decision has yet to be made on deportation. - Non-detained adult FNOs where action to pursue cases towards deportation is taken in the community . - All individuals detained in an Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) managed by the National Returns Command (NRC), including those in the Detained Asylum Casework (DAC) process. - All individuals in the Third Country Unit (TCU)/inadmissible process irrespective of whether detained or non-detained." That leaves the Single Competent Authority with all other trafficking cases, including any concerned with children. That leaves the Single Competent Authority with all other trafficking cases, including any concerned with children. The Home Office professes to believe that the trafficking system is being abused. 90% of trafficking referrals from detention centres in 2019 saw the person pass the first stage, the “reasonable grounds” decision, according to internal analysis. Giving the department’s enforcement arm its own decision-making powers is likely intended to foster a culture of greater scepticism about trafficking claims from people being lined up for deportation.

10 November 2021 – 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) >>> Immigration and nationality refunds policy: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwix2-Xps470AhXh0eAKHcdkCbsQFnoECAIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fimmigration-and-nationality-refunds-policy&usg=AOvVaw1XtKXPM6IBOTuGkpEHkXK9 The Guidance explains the situations when applicants can get their application fees etc refunded.

Очередной клиент с Украины получил EU Settled Sttaus (ILR). Срок рассмотрения в этот раз был 3 месяца. Делюсь статистикой.

Сегодня. Получили визу EU Settlement Family Permit для гражданки Казахстана. В данном случае это была мама клиентки. Еще одной счастливой семьей стало больше в Великобритании :-) Заявление рассмотрели за 4 месяца (подавали в конце июня 2021). Делюсь статистикой.

Стоимость госпошлины по ускоренному типу визового заявления по категории "Appendix FM Partner" ("виза жены британца") не сегодняшний день:

08 November 2021 – 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) >>> The new UK Scale-Up Visa to be available in spring 2022 The Scale-up Visa, also referred to as an 'elite points-based visa', will be open to applicants who pass the language proficiency requirements and have an offer of a highly-skilled job paying at least £33,000 from an eligible business. The sponsoring company would benefit from a fast track verification process but would need to meet special criteria to do so. An annual average revenue or employment growth rate over a three year period of greater than 20% with a minimum of 10 employees at the start of that three year period. The scale-up visa will launch in spring 2022. >>> Court of Appeal declines to re-open MY (Pakistan) human rights ruling:https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2021/1615.html The Court of Appeal has added a rider to last month’s decision in MY (Pakistan). On 15 October, the court held that the Home Office can refuse to engage with human rights claims bolted on to normal immigration applications.

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05 November 2021 – 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) >>> The UK Government to deprive British citizens of their citizenship without telling them The Home Secretary can take away anyone’s British citizenship when it would be “conducive to the public good”, but would not make that person stateless. She can also take away naturalised citizenship if obtained by fraud, false representation or concealment of a material fact. The circumstances in which the Home Secretary has exercised this power for “the public good” have largely concerned Brits who travelled to foreign countries to join Islamist terrorist groups. The power has had the practical effect of preventing them from re-entering the UK, meaning they do not become a terrorist threat on domestic soil. The government is now about to change the law so that people will no longer need to be notified about being stripped of their citizenship. >>> Transfer your visa from your passport: https://www.gov.uk/transfer-visa You might need to transfer or replace your visa if either: - your passport has expired - your name or personal details have changed >>> Call for evidence: An inspection of the Home Office’s processing of applications for indefinite leave to remain in the UK as a partner of a person or parent of a child already settled in the UK (SET (M)): https://www.gov.uk/government/news/call-for-evidence-an-inspection-of-the-home-offices-processing-of-applications-for-indefinite-leave-to-remain-in-the-uk-as-a-partner-of-a-person-or The Independent Chief Inspector invites anyone with knowledge and experience of this topic to submit evidence to inform the inspection.

Эта рабочая неделя заканчивается очередным получением EU Settled Status - ILR. А данном случае клиентка с Украины ждала чуть меньше 3-х месяцев. Следующий этап - получение гражданства Великобритании :smile: Делюсь статистикой.

Не подскажу. За последние 15 лет не сталкивался :-)

Приветствую, Вот ссылка на процедуру получения дубликата: https://www.gov.uk/get-replacement-citizenship-certificate

Как пример: https://lifeintheuktests.co.uk/life-in-the-uk-test/

04 November 2021 – 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) >>> New guidance on fresh Asylum claims: The official headnote Paragraph 353 of the Immigration Rules 1. The importance of paragraph 353 of the Immigration Rules (“Paragraph 353”) is as a “gate-keeping” function to shut out from the appeals system unmeritorious second or subsequent appeals. An appeal is generated under the current form of section 82 Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”) whenever a protection or human rights “claim” is made and refused. However, the Respondent is not obliged to treat repeat submissions as a “claim” leading to a “decision” generating a right of appeal in every case (Robinson v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] AC 942). 2. The words “if rejected” in Paragraph 353 specifically contemplate that the Respondent must form a view on the merits of the further submissions, in the sense that she may decide the submissions are such as to warrant the grant of leave to enter or remain (and to recognise the person as a refugee or otherwise entitled to international protection). It is only if she does not do so that Paragraph 353 requires her to determine if the (ex hypothesi) rejected submissions are a fresh claim, the refusal of which constitutes a decision falling within section 82 of the 2002 Act. It is artificial to separate the underlying merits of what is put forward from the question whether something “significantly different” is being advanced for the purposes of Paragraph 353. It is not the case, therefore, that the Respondent has “decided” a “claim” under section 82 of the 2002 Act in any case where she considers further submissions or a further application and concludes that the submissions or application do not merit the grant of leave. 3. The end-to-end process where Paragraph 353 applies is as follows: Stage 1: The Applicant makes human rights or protection claim. Stage 2: That claim is refused by the Respondent, giving rise to a right of appeal under section 82 of the 2002 Act. Stage 3: The Applicant’s appeal is unsuccessful; or the Applicant does not appeal or withdraws his appeal; or the refusal is certified under section 94 of the 2002 Act. Stage 4: The Applicant makes second or subsequent submissions by way of written submissions or application (“the Further Submissions”). Stage 5: The Respondent considers whether to accept or reject the Further Submissions on their merits. Stage 6: If the Further Submissions are accepted on their merits, the Respondent grants leave/recognises Applicant’s status. Stage 7: If the Further Submissions are rejected, the Respondent goes on to consider whether they nonetheless amount to a fresh protection or human rights claim; i.e. a categorisation decision is made. Stage 8: If the Respondent determines that the Further Submissions do not amount to a fresh claim, she rejects them as such. No refusal of a human rights or protection claim arises, within the meaning of section 82(1)(a) or (b) of the 2002 Act. If, however, she determines that they do amount to a fresh claim, then a “decision” has been made to refuse a “claim” for the purposes of Section 82 (1)(a) or (b) of the 2002 Act and a right of appeal arises against that decision 4. The guidance given in Sheidu (further submissions; appealable decisions; Sudan) [2016] UKUT 412 (IAC) is that if the effect of a decision is a refusal of a claim under section 82 of the 2002 Act, then there is a right of appeal even if the Respondent had intended to refuse further submissions applying Paragraph 353. That guidance turns on the interpretation of the particular decision letter under consideration in that case. In some (albeit extreme) cases such as Sheidu, the Upper Tribunal may conclude in the context of a judicial review challenge that what the Respondent actually did was not what she intended to do. Such cases are nevertheless likely to be rare. 5. Whether a decision of the Respondent is a decision to refuse to treat submissions as a fresh claim or the refusal of what is accepted to be a fresh claim is a matter of substance and not form. The nature of the decision does not depend where in the decision letter Paragraph 353 is raised. It is necessary to look at a Paragraph 353 decision under challenge as a whole. It must be interpreted objectively, considered fairly in the round and in substance. The Role of the Tribunal in Judicial Review Challenges to Paragraph 353 Decisions 6. Balajigari and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] 1 WLR 4647 and R (oao BAA and Another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dublin III: judicial review; SoS’s duties) [2020] UKUT 00227 (IAC) did not involve fresh claim decisions. As such they are distinguishable from fresh claims cases. The case law in relation to fresh claims has consistently stated that the role of the Tribunal is only to consider whether the decision is Wednesbury unreasonable or involves other public law error: (WM (DRC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] Imm AR 337). 7. In a Judicial Review of a decision made under Paragraph 353, the Upper Tribunal is tasked with considering the Respondent’s decision for rejecting the submissions as a fresh claim. The Tribunal is not required to reach a decision for itself whether the Respondent’s decision breaches an applicant’s human rights. The position in this regard is akin to that where an appellate court or tribunal is examining the legality of the mixed legal and factual conclusion reached by a fact-finding tribunal on whether a decision violates Article 8 rights. 8. In the event that further material comes to light, the remedy for an applicant is to make further submissions to the Respondent and not seek to place the Tribunal in the role of primary decision-maker.

Пример части моей "академической" работы в сфере иммиграции: конференция с коллегами из Home Office. Доступ к "инсайдерской" информации и прямой диалог с коллегами из Home Office помогает в успешной работе с клиентами.

03 November 2021 – 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) >>> Is switching from a Short Term Student visa into a UK spouse visa possible ? Potentially, if the visa was issued for a period longer than 6 months (some of the Short Term Student visas to study English are issued for 9 months. >>> Home Office complaints procedure: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/complaints-procedure >>> Guidance on how to complain against the Home Office: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/complaints-management-guidance-version-7

Очередной ILR - EU Settled Status для клиентки с Украины. Дело примечательно тем, что родители клиентки оплатили мои услуги в этом случае как подарок их дочери. Такая практика встречается все чаще и чаше. EUSS был получен за 2 месяца. Делись статистикой и хорошей новостью :-)

>>> Список 4-х одобренных Home Office агенств, кто имеет право набирать рабочих по категории Tier 5(Seasonal Worker): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/seasonal-workers-pilot-request-for-information/seasonal-workers-pilot-request-for-information

>>> Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 803: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-changes-to-the-immigration-rules-hc-803-1-november-2021 The Statement introduces changes to Appendix Temporary Work – Seasonal Worker to add specified pork butchers to the Seasonal Worker route temporarily. It also introduces corrective changes to Appendix AR to reinstate provisions which were deleted in error by a previous Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (HC 617), inadvertently limiting the grounds of challenge available in administrative review. The Explanatory Memorandum to today's Statement of Changes clarifies that "Instructions to caseworkers were not amended to reflect the error. Consequently, applications have been considered as if the error had not occurred and applicants have not been disadvantaged."