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  • New Country Guidance case for Albanian male victims of trafficking
  • Guidance: Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy
  • Upper Tribunal provides guidance on what makes a good country expert report

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freemovement.org.uk /2 weeks ago

New Country Guidance case for Albanian male victims of trafficking

The Upper Tribunal has published new country guidance on Albanian male victims of trafficking, in the highly anticipated case of LR (Male VOTs) (CG) [2026] UKUT 315 (IAC). The deci...

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gov.uk /1 week ago

Guidance: Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy

Information and guidance on the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.

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freemovement.org.uk /2 weeks ago

Upper Tribunal provides guidance on what makes a good country expert report

In the important case of SU (Expert reports – format) Bangladesh [2026] UKUT 00317 (IAC), the Upper Tribunal gave helpful guidance on the format of expert reports and how to ensure...

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freemovement.org.uk /17 hours ago

Unpublished ARAP guidance makes refusals of Afghan Embassy guards unlawful

The High Court has quashed two refusals of relocation under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), finding that former security guards from the British Embassy in Kab...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Court of Appeal upholds rewording of Jamaica witness protection country guidance

The Court of Appeal has upheld the Upper Tribunal’s decision to depart from the wording contained in the headnote of the country guidance case AB (Protection, criminal gangs, inter...

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gov.uk /1 day ago

Guidance: Overseas Accompanied Service Assessments

The actions to be taken to ensure that the support needs of individuals considering accompanied assignments or transfers overseas are appropriately assessed.

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freemovement.org.uk /1 week ago

Effective protection and option to relocate defeats certification challenge

An Indian asylum seeker whose account of the risk he faced changed significantly between his screening and substantive interviews still had his claim certified as clearly unfounded...

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gov.uk /1 month ago

Guidance: Ex-Gratia Medical Payments reviews

Guidance for former locally employed staff who were injured in the course of their service.

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ejiltalk.org /1 week ago

From Specificity to Institutional Reliability: J.B. v. Greece and Diplomatic Assurances

On 26 May 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) delivered its judgment in J.B. v. Greece (no. 54796/16). The case concerns the potential removal of a Syrian national...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Home Office policy refusing citizenship to refugees who entered the UK irregularly found lawful

The High Court has upheld the lawfulness of the Home Office policy on good character in naturalisation applications, in a challenge brought by a refugee who originally entered the...

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gov.uk /2 weeks ago

Guidance: MAA Recognition

Recognition is the process used to evaluate other military aviation regulators and assess the potential to use their airworthiness outputs within MAA processes.

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gov.uk /4 weeks ago

Guidance: AUKUS - exemption from U.S. ITAR regulations

Information about Authorised User Community (AUC) exemption from the U.S. International Traffic in Arms regulations (ITAR).

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freemovement.org.uk /4 weeks ago

No eligibility under the Afghan relocation scheme for family members already safely settled outside Afghanistan

The High Court has dismissed a judicial review brought by an Afghan national who was refused relocation as an additional family member under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance P...

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gov.uk /1 month ago

Guidance: Country names

Spellings of country names as recommended by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN).

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

No special weight to be given to National Age Assessment Board decisions as tribunal finds assessment ‘quite wrong’

The Upper Tribunal has rejected the Home Office’s argument that special weight should be afforded to age assessments carried out by the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB), reaffi...

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cis.org /3 weeks ago

USCIS Issues New Guidance on Public Charge Inadmissibility Determinations

USCIS’s current guidance instructs immigration officers to consider the five statutory factors (age; health; family status; assets, resources, and financial status; and education a...

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freemovement.org.uk /4 weeks ago

Challenge to citizenship refusal under section 3(1) by stateless children refused for lack of supporting evidence

A recent High Court decision to refuse a judicial review challenge serves as a clear reminder that discretionary registration applications turn on the strength of the evidence prov...

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theguardian.com /2 weeks ago

Home Office could be blocked from deporting trafficking victims to Albania

Many males are returned even if they have been trafficked but Home Office must now consider new legal guidanceUK politics live – latest updatesThe Home Office could be blocked from...

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gov.uk /2 weeks ago

Tribunal section

Section last updated: February 2023.

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Immigration firm criticised for failing to identify possible client fraud

The Upper Tribunal has given guidance on when lawyers are expected to identify suspected fraud on the part of their clients. The case is the joined judicial review applications in...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 month ago

Suitability refusals: alleged deception, false information and innocent mistakes

Making a mistake on an immigration application form can be disastrous. If the mistake is interpreted by officials as an attempt to mislead or deceive, the application may be refuse...

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freemovement.org.uk /3 weeks ago

Gaza visit visa refusal amounted to a human rights refusal despite the wording of the decision letter

Refusing a visit visa can amount to a refusal of a human rights claim, even if the decision letter says otherwise. This was the finding in Entry Clearance Officer v FA [2026] EWCA...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 week ago

Suitability refusals: contriving to frustrate the intention of the rules

Sometimes a migrant here in the UK unlawfully will want to apply for immigration status. Lawyers and the Home Office often call this “regularising” their status, because the person...

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freemovement.org.uk /1 week ago

Judicial discretion and burden of proof in civil penalty appeals – a light at the end of the tunnel?

Challenging civil penalty notices for breaches of section 15 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 has long been complicated by a lack of binding or persuasive author...

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