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It would normally be considered astonishing, then, that the actual decisions were so incredibly shoddy. It tells you everything you need to know about Priti Patel’s Home Office. Presumably, Patel ordered that removals take place immediately, insufficient preparation had been done and there was such a rush that mistakes were made. It is also surely irrelevant on the facts of the individual cases, given everyone had eventually been able to find a lawyer. This was due to superhuman and probably unrepeatable efforts of the charities and legal firms supporting the claimants, though. The judges held that it was not unlawful for the Home Secretary to make special provision for refugees coming from Ukraine and therefore there was no nationality discrimination.
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We try to make sure information is accurate at the date it is published. The older the blog post on this site, the more likely it is that there have been legal developments since it was published. An appeal to Strasbourg may be possible given that human rights issues are at stake. Strasbourg hearings can be expedited but whether this one would be is unknown. But it rankles rather that the judges saw fit to lay into the claimant lawyers for doing their jobs. If managers had been trying to invent a system most likely to lead to unlawful decisions, they could not have done much better.
There are significant differences in principle and in practice between the Dublin system and the Rwanda deal, but the basic idea is arguably comparable. There is simply no evidence to suggest that the UK-Rwanda agreement would act as a shield. This is uncharted territory and the agreement nowhere specifically provides for a right to protest or protection against ill-treatment. While, as discussed, there is no dedicated complaints number in place at this time, you can always contact the Home Office Complaints Allocation Hub – this is a centre for all complaints forwarded in writing, either via post or via email.
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The Refugee Convention is partially incorporated into UK law by section 2 of the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993, which provides that “nothing in the Immigration Rules shall lay down any practice which would be contrary to the Convention”. The claimants argued that the Rwanda plan was contrary to two provisions of the Refugee Convention. It is very important to seek legal advice about your case as soon as possible. Immigration advisers should only give you advice on things they are qualified to help you with.
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Home Office rejects police watchdog advice to equip immigration officers with bodycams during raids
All we see, for example, are neutral statement like “the information available to the Home Secretary … has expanded during the life of this litigation” or “the Home Secretary revised her position” . As is often the case, the judges seem oblivious to the double standards of their expectations. It is not clear to me that the consideration required here is as detailed as under the old immigration rules. In other words, had the government waited for its own custom-designed law to take effect, it might have found removals were easier to carry out. The government would have needed to wait just three weeks; the decisions under challenge were made on or after 8 June 2022. The claimants needed to be afforded a chance to explain why they had not claimed asylum in countries through which they had passed and a chance to explain why Rwanda was not a safe country for them in particular.
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There is another dimension here, which is that the decisions dealt with in this case were made under an old law that has since been superseded. Some legal commentators have been suggesting that the government’s victory is a Pyrrhic one because the level of detailed consideration required in individual cases is so high. As I explained earlier, that is not necessarily the case under the new law, the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, under which any new removal decisions would be made.
Whatever an outside observer’s view might be of these questions, this is not an easy type of challenge to win. The UK Home Office is responsible for a wealth of information and support on a variety of means that affect the British way of life, and indeed citizenship. It is a wing or department of the government that is not only responsible for ensuring that UK citizens are protected and are governed by a working law system, but are also in charge of controlling immigration and citizenship on a whole.
The government might explore amending or lifting or simply ignoring the interim measure to enable removals to proceed even before the appeal process is concluded. The claimants also argued that the Refugee Convention imposes an implicit obligation on states to determine all asylum claims made within their jurisdiction. There is no explicit provision to this effect and the judges rejected the argument. The Refugee Convention was only the second UN convention negotiated and agreed — it came at the very start of the new era of international law — and it has to be said that it is a bit light on obligations and enforcement.
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If your receipt number begins with IOE, it is better and faster to update your address in your USCIS online account. OISC maintains a register of the immigration advisers that they regulate. Immigration advisers can help you with most things to do with immigration, including helping you to fill in the right forms and representing you at a tribunal. You can get immigration advice from an immigration adviser if you need help with getting permission to stay in the UK. They said they had addressed the recommendations from the coroner in relation to officer training and that the resulting changes would be rolled out from April. The use of body-worn cameras by police has increased in both Britain and the US in recent years amid concern about a lack of accountability among officers and disproportionate targeting of ethnic minorities.
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