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President of the UK’s Supreme Court, David Neuberger, says the government needs to spell out how British courts should interpret rulings from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) after Brexit.Currently Britain must abide by ECJ judgments but Prime Minister, Theresa May’s government has said that Britain will leave its jurisdiction after Brexit.Britain has begun the …
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The cost of making an immigration or nationality application has risen extremely steeply in recent years. Annual increases of 20% or 25% per year are now standard, bringing the current cost of an application for Indefinite Leave to Remain in 2017 to £2,297.The actual cost of processing such an application is £252, so the Home …
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THE Home Office has published a Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules which was presented to Parliament on 20 July 2017. The purpose of the statement is to make changes to the family Immigration Rules following the decision of the Supreme Court in the Case of MM (Lebanon) v SSHD [2017] UKSC 10.The case of …
Campaigners have threatened a legal challenge against the UK government for failing to act on the Supreme Court's ruling to prevent hardship on children as a result of minimum income requirements for its citizens to bring in their foreign spouses from countries like India. British citizens must earn more than 18,600 pounds a year before …
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The Home Office today collection of guidance documents used by UK Visas and Immigration when deciding applications for British nationality. These documents are an essential read for anyone intending to go through this process. These applications attract exorbitant Home Office fees and some pre-application research may go some way to avoiding the financial hit of a …
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