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Immigration

Comprehensive Sickness Insurance for EEA Residence Applications & Brexit

If you are an EEA national living in the UK you may be considering applying for a Residence Permit in view of the uncertainty of Brexit. One of the requirements that you must meet in order to qualify for a residence card is that you hold a valid certificate of ‘Comprehensive Sickness Insurance’

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Immigration

Entry Clearance and Visa refusals

Visit visa refusals – appeal or judicial review? Page contents Re-apply Right of appeal Case of Mostafa Home Office guidance The powerful alternative: applying for judicial review Comparison of Options? Have you recently been refused a UK visa or refused entry to the UK? If so you will now be facing a difficult legal dilemma. […]

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Immigration

G4S earn millions from Home Office Immigration contracts despite evidence of abusing deportation detainees

This week secret filming by the BBC Panorama inside the Home Office’s Brook House detention centre gave the world a preview of the abuses being committed against some of the most vulnerable in society. Abuses that are silently sanctioned by the Home Office. Nevertheless the Detention Centre’s private contractor, G4S, is still hoping that its deal to run […]

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Immigration

BBC Panorama exposes Brook House Asylum & Immigration Removal Centre

BBC Panorama exposes Brook House Asylum & Immigration Removal Centre

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Criminal Law Immigration

What is an unspent conviction

People submitting applications to the UK Border Agency and the Home Office for immigration related matters are under a duty to disclose on their application forms any unspent convictions. However; most people don’t really know what an unspent conviction is and this causes no end of problems with applications, often resulting in refusal of the […]