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Barrister, writer, campaigner and consultant specialising in immigration law

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Posted on 13 March 2014

Immigration barrister and blogger

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Latest from my immigration law blog

Visitor visa applicants must be allowed to respond to ‘not genuinely seeking entry’ allegation 21 August 2026
Where a visitor visa is refused on the grounds that the applicant is not genuinely seeking entry as a visitor, this amounts to a finding of deception. Home Office decisions do not always say this explicitly, though. In R (on the application of Sanci) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] JR-2025-LON-002518, the […]
Home Office guidance confirms that you can, in fact, vary a human rights application 20 August 2026
Paragraph 34BB has always been clear that you can vary any application, including a human rights one. Yet until a few days ago, the ‘Validation, variation, voiding and withdrawal of applications’ guidance stated confusingly that human rights applications could not be varied. I had long suspected, and I can’t imagine I was the only one, […]
Gaza visit visa refusal amounted to a human rights refusal despite the wording of the decision letter 19 August 2026
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 Civ 1014, where the Court of Appeal confirmed that FA, a 67-year old Palestinian woman living in Gaza, had been entitled to […]

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