If you wish to visit the UK for a holiday or to see your friends and family who live here, you may need to apply for a Standard Visitor Visa before you come to the UK. This visa, once granted, will enable you to stay in the UK for no longer than six months. However, it is advisable to stay for the period declared in your application to avoid problems later on, for example if you would like to visit the UK in the future.
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Registering to be British Citizenship Through Father – Pre 2006
Section 65 of the new Immigration Act 2014 concerns children of British Citizen fathers, born before 1 July 2006, whose parents were or are not married. As of the 6th April 2015 onwards, a child born before the 1st of July 2006 to an unmarried father who was a British citizen at the time of the child’s birth will be able to apply for British citizenship.
Historical Background
Human Rights Solicitors observed the previous treatment towards illegitimate children born to British fathers before the 1st of July 2006 as contravening the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights. Immigration Lawyers UK regarded this as a human rights issue affecting both the rights of children born out of wedlock before the 1st July 2006 and unmarried British fathers (gender discrimination). Continue Reading →
Immigration Policies Analyses: General Election 2015
UK residents will be going to the polls tomorrow (7th of May 2015) for the General Election and of course one of the hot topics as in many EU countries at the moment is immigration. Immigration policy is of course one of the hot topics in the upcoming General Election being held on 7 May 2015. Many voters worry about immigration in the UK, which has led the political parties to include detailed immigration policies within their respective manifestos.
As a UK Immigration and Human Rights lawyer, I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at an overview of the immigration policies of the Lib Dems, Labour, SNP, Green Party, Conservatives and Ukip – and hopefully dividing them into ‘the good’, ‘the bad’ and ‘the ugly’ to summaries the main policies, it may help you to make up your mind if immigration is a pivotal concern for you. Continue Reading →
Immigration Health Surcharge
Immigration Health Surcharge
The Immigration Health Surcharge is one of the key reforms within the Immigration Act 2014 which both Human Rights Solicitors and migrants must get to grips with. In addition to a new higher fee that has just kicked in, an additional NHS Immigration Health Surcharge is payable as of the 6th April 2015 by all non-EEA migrants coming to the UK for more than six months.
The UK Government has stated that the purpose of this surcharge is to ensure that non-EEA migrants contribute to the cost of the NHS. However, given the timing it could perhaps appear as an election stunt as some of the best immigration lawyers in the UK observe – the policy began a week after Parliament is expected to dissolve and during a national election campaign… Continue Reading →
Curtailment Of UK Immigration Appeal Rights – Immigration Act 2014
Changes on Appeal Right – Government gives with one hand takes with the other
Some of you may have missed it but from this week, as of the 2nd March 2015, the government further rolled out the curtailment of immigration appeal rights.
One of the major features in the new Immigration Act 2014, in the latest bid of the government to crack down on immigration, is the way that Immigration Appeals will be dealt with. Through the Act, the parliament not only tries to dictate how Immigration Tribunal Judges Should deal with Appeals, especially under Human Rights Grounds (Paragraph 117B), but also reduces the grounds on which a challenge can be brought. Continue Reading →