Employers exploiting illegal immigrants face tougher sanctions – Home Office
“Rogue firms employing illegal immigrants face new £20,000 penalty per illegal worker.”
Home Office, 9th July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Category: immigration
Home Secretary statement on Abu Qatada – Home Office
“Statement by Home Secretary Theresa May following the deportation of Abu Qatada on Sunday (7 July).”
Home Office, 7th July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
As Abu Qatada leaves, Theresa May vows to change human rights law – The Guardian
“Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, celebrated the successful deportation of Abu Qatada to Jordan on Sunday by saying the long-running saga meant there would have to be ‘wholesale changes’ in Britain’s human rights laws.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
UK visa rule challenge rejected by High Court – BBC News
“UK family immigration rules are not discriminatory and do not infringe human
rights, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 5th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Consultation launched into migrant access of health services – Home Office
“A consultation into short term migrant’s access and contribution to the NHS has been launched as part of the Immigration Bill.”
Home Office, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Proposals for landlord checks to tackle illegal migrants renting – Home Office
“Private landlords will be required to check the immigration status of new tenants under government proposals being launched in a consultation today.”
Home Office,3rd July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
The foreign rioter we cannot deport because of his ‘right to family life’ – Daily Telegraph
“Lawyers for Derrick Kinsasi successfully argued that sending him back to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would breach his ‘right to family life’ under Labour’s Human Rights Act, even though he is unmarried and has no children.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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Private landlords face £3,000 fines for renting to illegal immigrants – Daily Telegraph
“Private landlords face fines of up to £3,000 if they fail to inspect tenants’ passports and other identity documents to establish that they are not illegal immigrants.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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Consultations on upcoming immigration bill – UK Border Agency
“The government has launched two consultations seeking views on proposed immigration legislation.”
UK Border Agency, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
Immigration Rule changes – UK Border Agency
“As previously announced a number of minor changes to the Immigration Rules come into effect today, Monday 1 July 2013.”
Uk Border Agency, 30th June 2013
Soruce: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
Man jailed over passport fraud – Home Office
“A man who attempted to help illegal immigrants get into the UK with British passports has been jailed for nearly four years.”
Home Office, 28th June 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Regina ((JB) (Jamaica)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
“Since the undisputed evidence was that homosexuals were routinely persecuted in Jamaica, the Secretary of State had acted unlawfully in designating Jamaica, under section 94(5)(a) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, as a state where there was ‘in general no serious risk of persecution of persons entitled to reside in that state.’ ”
WLR Daily, 12th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Raju and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
“Table 10 of Appendix A of paragraph 245FD of the Immigration Rules required that an applicant for leave to remain under the Tier 1 (Post-Study Work) provisions of the points-based system therein should have obtained the appropriate qualification before making the application in order to obtain the necessary points.”
WLR Daily, 25th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
US bloggers banned from entering UK – BBC News
“Two prominent US bloggers have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said.”
BBC News, 26th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
UKBA failed to pursue missing asylum seeker leads – The Independent
“Border officials failed to pursue more than 3,000 leads identified on police databases when attempting to track down missing asylum seekers, an inspector has found.”
The Independent, 26th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
European Court of Justice grapples with secret evidence in UK immigration case – UK Human Rights Blog
“The European Court of Justice has, in recent days, handed down a judgment that hits several hot buttons: UK immigration law, EU human rights, secret evidence, and suspicions of terrorism. In ZZ the Court has had to rule on the use of secret evidence before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Changes to the Immigration Rules – July 2013 – UK Border Agency
“Today, Monday 10 June 2013, a number of minor changes to the Immigration Rules have been published which will come into force on 1 July 2013.”
UK Border Agency, 10th June 2013
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
Immigration policy tearing families apart, report shows – The Guardian
“A cross-party group of MPs has called for an urgent review of new immigration rules, which they claim are tearing hundreds of British families apart. Their inquiry report shows that a new minimum earnings rule of £18,600 a year, which came into effect last July, has meant that thousands of British citizens, including people with full-time jobs, have been unable to bring a non-European husband, wife or partner to live with them in Britain.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
ZZ (France) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
ZZ (France) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Case C-300/11); [2013] WLR (D) 218
“Where a national authority had failed to inform an EU citizen precisely and in full of the public security grounds, and the related evidence, upon which it had made a decision under article 27 of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC refusing the citizen entry, the national court was required, pursuant to articles 30(2) and 31 of the Directive and article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, to ensure that that failure was limited to that which was strictly necessary. The court had to ensure, in any event, that the citizen was informed of the essence of the grounds in a manner which took due account of the necessary confidentiality of the evidence.”
WLR Daily, 4th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (MA and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
“On the proper interpretation of the second paragraph of article 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 343/2003, where an unaccompanied minor, who had no family member within the European Union, had made applications for asylum in more than one member state, the member state responsible for examining that application was that in which the minor was present at the time, after having lodged an asylum application there.”
WLR Daily, 6th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
