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Colin Yeo

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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  • Upper Tribunal provides guidance on what makes a good country expert report 24 August 2026
    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 they carry weight. It arose in the context of a Bangladeshi asylum claim, which the tribunal dismissed on its facts, but it is the […]
  • 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, […]
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