Immigration News Weekly Roundup - 30th September 2022
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Tomorrow marks the commencement of major changes to Right to Work?Checks for employers holding Sponsor License. From 1st?October 2022, the Home Office will resort to carrying out audits both physically (where the employer is met in person and all documents checked) and Online (through an approved digital identity service provider).??Right to work checks Guidance in this respect has been updated on 27th?September 2022.??(PS: If you would like to be fully abreast with this change, join us for Sponsor License Master class & Meeting Home Office Expectations on Wednesday 9th?November 2022 via Zoom. For more information and booking, click here )??
Guidance mutual legal assistance credible overseas sources, Home Office shall be in touch to cross verify the evidential information / documents from the applicants.
Two prominent determinations have been issued this week.??The Upper Tribunal in OH v SSHD has confirmed that ultimately it is the Home Office’s discretion whether to issue permission to work or not to asylum seekers who do not qualify under the relevant Rules seeking such a permission.?
The ECHR’s determination releases a very significant finding, retreating to zero tolerance policy for persons with serious criminal convictions when backing the deportation order towards the Appellant. This was despite the Appellant having a settled status and firm family ties in the UK.?
Such updates and more highlights on immigration developments from the news media for this week, covered in our newsletter below.
NEWS
Border Force and French Police Aux Frontières joint statement – Home Office?
The Director General of Border Force, Phil Douglas and the Deputy Director General of the French Police Aux Frontières, Brigitte Lafourcade, have made a joint statement on the management of the shared border. To read the full news, click here?
New crackdown on fraud and money laundering to protect UK economy
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill will strengthen the UK’s reputation as a place where legitimate businesses can thrive while driving dirty money out of the UK.?Through the reforms, anyone who registers a company in the UK will need to verify their identity, tackling the use of companies as a front for crime or foreign kleptocrats. To read the full news, click here?
Employers urge UK government to show it really can boost growth – Reuters?
Britain's government must reform areas such as immigration and climate change to show it really can boost economic growth after it sent markets into a tailspin with a huge tax cuts announcement, the head of an employers group said on Wednesday. To read the full article, click here
Data sharing: MoD and Home Office ignored people's data requests – ICO – BBC News?
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says it is "calling them out" for ignoring the public when asked questions about the data they hold.
A Subject Access Request (SAR) must be responded to within three months.
The government departments repeatedly missed that deadline. To read the full news, click here?
Government plans to re-open two immigration centres as detention of asylum seekers increases – Evening Standard?
The Home Office will re-open a detention center for?asylum seekers?in?Hampshire?as it ramps up the use of detention amid an uncertain future of the?Rwanda?policy. To read the full news, click here?
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill passes first reading – Europe Sanctions?
The?Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill?passed its?first reading?in the House of Commons on Thursday. It is intended to build on legislative changes made by the?Economic Crime Act 2022, which included changes to the?SAMLA 2018?(previous?post).?Explanatory Notes.?Statement?by Home Secretary Suella Braverman. See?here?for factsheets, impact assessments and ECHR memoranda. To read the full article, click here?
领英推荐
People smuggler: I get clients to sign a waiver -??BBC News?
A people smuggler says the UK government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is no deterrent for his customers. Jane Corbin meets him at his base in Turkey. To read the full news report, click here?
Ukrainian refugees fear they will become homeless – BBC News?
Government data seen by the BBC shows at least 127 Ukrainian households were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in the south of England at the end of last month. To read the full article, click here?
CASE LAW
Case of Ottie v. The United Kingdom?(Application no.?18339/19) ECHR
In a determination issued by the European Court of Human Rights, it was found that there was no breach to the Appellant’s Article 8 right to respect for private and family life in respect to his deportation order to Nigeria.??The Appellant’s was granted Indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 2004 and had family ties by way of a settled spouse and children in the UK. The Appellant was issued with a deportation order following a criminal conviction for a serious fraud offence.??
To read the full determination, click here?
The King on the application of OH v Secretary of State for the Home Department??[2022] UKAITUR JR2021LON001003
The Appellant was refused request to work whilst he was dependent on his wife’s asylum claim.??The Appellant had asked the SSHD to exercise discretion to allow him to work even though his circumstances did not satisfy the relevant Rules.?
His permission was refused and the Appellant challenged the refusal. The Upper Tribunal confirmed that the SSHD was correct to refuse under Article 8 and Article 14 of ECHR.??
To read the full determination, click here?
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