UK Visa

Inspection of Home Office’s country guidance on Rwanda includes concerns about methodology and omission of evidence – UK visa news

The report into the Rwanda country policy and information notes by the Impartial Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has lastly been printed. The Rwanda scheme may be over, and the related nation notes withdrawn shortly after the Supreme Courtroom’s determination however as I pointed out last week, there are points with the way in

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UK Visa

Home Secretary delayed decisions on trafficking victims’ cases because of Rwanda policy – paving the way for potential damages claims – UK visa news

In response to the judicial evaluate declare R (MS) v SSHD AC-2024-LON-000866, the Dwelling Secretary has admitted a observe of deliberately delaying claims for short-term permission to remain made by asylum looking for trafficking victims who have been on the time earmarked for attainable removing to Rwanda. The pause, which was not revealed or admitted

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The Rwanda policy is in its death throes – UK visa news

Because of the acknowledged place of the earlier Conservative authorities that there could be a removing flight to Rwanda on 24 July 2024, a Excessive Court docket listening to was attributable to happen over 4 days beginning on 9 July 2024. Because of the election of a Labour authorities and their explicitly and incessantly acknowledged

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UK Immigration

The Safety of Rwanda Act 2024 Explained – UK visa news

By Anna Bregstein – Pupil Immigration Barrister 03 Jun 2024 After months of what’s often called parliamentary ‘ping pong’, the third modification to the Security of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Invoice (hereafter ‘the Bill’) was rejected by the Home of Commons, resolving the impasse between the Homes. The most recent amendments would have required the

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UK Visa

Public Accounts Committee: “little to show” for the large amounts of money spent on Rwanda and accommodation sites – UK visa news

The Public Accounts Committee has revealed a report “Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda Partnership” wherein it criticises the Residence Workplace in each of those areas. By the tip of March this 12 months, spending on the Rwanda scheme had reached £240 million. The plan to open 4 giant scale lodging centres is predicted to value £1.2

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UK Visa

Rwanda: procedural fairness and extensions of time – UK visa news

As I defined in a previous blog, in its June 2023 judgment in AAA & Others v SSHD, the Courtroom of Attraction accepted Asylum Help’s case that, in a majority of instances, the seven day interval allowed by the Residence Workplace for these in detention to reply to a discover of intent threatening elimination to

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UK Visa

Rwanda scheme amended to include failed asylum seekers – UK visa news

On Monday the Dwelling Workplace up to date the guidance documents referring to removals to Rwanda and retroactively amended the Rwanda settlement to incorporate the potential for sending failed asylum seekers there. This was completed by way of a letter from the British High Commissioner in Rwanda to Rwanda’s Everlasting Secretary Ministry of International Affairs

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UK Visa

Briefing: Safety of Rwanda Act – what happens now? – UK visa news

I’ve set out beneath what the authorized course of is for sending an individual to Rwanda following the Security of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024, which acquired Royal Assent on 25 April and came into force the same day. I’ve regarded solely on the legislation because it presently stands, this excludes a lot of

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UK Visa

The Home Office’s updated guidance on ‘voluntary departures’ including to Rwanda – UK visa news

The Residence Workplace has up to date its guidance on voluntary returns, now re-named voluntary departures which now contains the potential for sending those that conform to a secure third nation. Though not explicitly named within the steerage, the intention is clearly to attempt to get individuals to conform to go to Rwanda. Growing the

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