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The judges are critical of the way the multiplicity of cases were pleaded and suggested that over-long and overlapping skeleton arguments “made it significantly more difficult for counsel to present their cases clearly and effectively”. The huge pressure piled on the lawyers by the wildly careening Home Office juggernaut and the sheer number of cases is not something the judges see fit to mention, unfortunately. No equivalent criticisms are made of the Home Office or its legal teams despite the fact amended decision letters were issued after the removals were due to have taken place and new evidence was submitted after proceedings had begun.
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Given the amounts of money at stake, perhaps the Rwandan government will do its utmost to comply, though. Your eligibility for a visa will depend entirely upon why you are coming to the UK – for example if you are undertaking voluntary work, a long-term placement, or even a summer job. There is more information available online for you to peruse and apply through at your leisure.
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The idea is that by doing this to some refugees, other refugees will be deterred from trying to come to the UK to claim asylum. Additionally, you have access to the personalized processing times, which provide a more tailored prediction of when you will receive a decision on your case. I’m old enough to remember when the Nationality and Borders Bill had to be rushed through Parliament in order to use it for the Rwanda plan. But the government did not actually wait for the new law to come into effect before starting the attempts to remove to Rwanda. Instead, reliance was placed on some safe third country provisions in the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004. The claimants argued the 2004 Act could not be used for implementing a plan of this nature.
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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.
On top of that, the Home Office ignored or overlooked the representations that were made on behalf of several of the refugees. This was in part because Home Office managers had seen fit to allocated the cases simultaneously to to caseworking units in different parts of the country. Parts of the cases were worked by officials in Glasgow and other parts of the cases were worked by officials in Croydon . When material was sent to the Home Office to be considered, it was not properly shared between the two teams. But the court likes to have it both ways and goes on to find that the organisations bringing a general challenge to the policy either had no standing or were simply repeating points made by the individual claimants and should not have bothered.
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.
The court held that they had been given an adequate opportunity on both fronts. Article 31, known as the non-penalisation clause, provides that penalties should not be imposed on refugees on account of their illegal entry or presence, subject to certain conditions being met. The claimants argued that removing people to Rwanda as a deliberate policy of deterrence amounted to a penalty. The judges observed that this opinion was on the face of it contradicted, at least to some extent, by previous public assessments of Rwanda by UNHCR . Public criticism of a country that hosts refugees is highly problematic because it risks the government taking the huff and disengaging from UNHCR. They have perhaps been hoist by their own petard here, because the judges cannot be expected to know this on their own and the lawyers representing UNHCR could hardly say this, nor perhaps could the lawyers representing the claimants.
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.
USCIS Online Account—If you submitted a paper form and your receipt number begins with IOE, we mailed you a letter about creating aUSCIS online account. With an account, you can sign up for automatic case alerts, see processing times, upload evidence, update your address, and send us secure messages using any device! If you submitted a paper form and your receipt number begins with other letters, you can create an account and add your paper-filed case to receive automatic case alerts. Before going further, a quick recap of what the Rwanda plan actually is. The idea of the Rwanda plan is that a small number of asylum seekers will be removed from the United Kingdom to Rwanda and that their asylum claims will be assessed there in accordance with Rwandan law. It may well be genuine refugees who are removed, from countries such as Afghanistan and Syria.
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