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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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  • Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #114 7 April 2026
    Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! Hope you’re feeling refreshed after the long weekend! Research by the Humans for Rights Network has found that 76 young people whose ages have been disputed by the Home Office have been held in immigration detention under the UK-France agreement. Eleven of the 76 have since been released into adult […]
  • Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse 7 April 2026
    Applying the new earned settlement rules retrospectively to migrants already here is wrong. People came to the UK under a specific set of rules and made life-altering decisions on that basis. Moving the goalposts midway through their journey is a breach of faith, and the government should not do it. But the bigger problem is […]
  • Adoption and surrogacy: when is a child born overseas British? 2 April 2026
    Those who adopt a child abroad or have a child through surrogacy often assume that their child will automatically be born British if one of the parents is British. This is often not the case. The difficulty is that British nationality law does not always follow biology, intention or foreign documents. In both adoption and […]
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