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Free Movement Blog
14 Jan 2026
Immigration roundup podcast: December 2025
That’s officially a wrap on 2025, as Sonia and Barry run through December’s various happenings, including the final statement of changes for the year and our latest resources on the earned settlement proposals. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force and the latest tribunal statistics show that the Home Office’s insistence […]
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Free Movement Blog
17 Dec 2025
Migration Advisory Committee publishes review of salary requirements and annual report
The Migration Advisory Committee is clearing its desk ahead of the holiday break, publishing not one but two reports today. The first is the review of the salary requirements for work visas, where the committee has recommended keeping the general threshold at £41,700 and that a single new entrant rate is set at £33,400. The […]
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Free Movement Blog
16 Dec 2025
Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #99
Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! The best question that someone put to us at last week’s webinar on earned settlement was along the lines of how will the Home Office communicate to people that all of a sudden the rules have been changed on them and they are now on a much longer […]
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UK Home Office
16 Dec 2025
Guidance: Skilled Worker visa: caseworker guidance
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications under the Skilled Worker route.
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Free Movement Blog
12 Dec 2025
Court orders grant of indefinite leave in case with historic conviction
The High Court has ordered the Home Secretary to grant indefinite leave to remain to a man who has held discretionary leave to remain for 15 years, first granted under the pre-July 2012 policy. The Home Secretary had tried to rely on a conviction that pre-dated the first grant of discretionary leave in justifying the […]
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Free Movement Blog
10 Dec 2025
Briefing: the implications of the “earned settlement” proposals and what they might mean in practice
It seems it’s currently the Labour government’s turn to fervently and endlessly push the “fixing immigration once and for all” boulder up the very tall hill of British politics, as it inevitably rolls back down when it encounters reality. We’ve now had a few weeks to digest the “earned settlement” policy document, which outlines the […]
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Free Movement Blog
09 Dec 2025
Immigration roundup podcast: November 2025
What a month. Sonia kicked off the podcast with a run through of the major policy proposals which came out in November, including the changes to refugee settlement periods and a look at the earned settlement proposals (though not in too much detail as she is doing a full webinar with Colin on the topic […]
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Free Movement Blog
02 Dec 2025
Free Movement Weekly Immigration Newsletter #97
Welcome to the weekly Free Movement newsletter! Some earned settlement updates from the past week. First of all, the Home Secretary tweeted that the illegal entry penalty will not be applied to people who have been recognised as refugees. Thanks to Jon Featonby for spotting and flagging up that one. I personally feel this information would have […]
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Free Movement Blog
01 Dec 2025
Successful challenge to refusal of indefinite leave to remain in TOEIC case
An applicant has successfully challenged a refusal to grant him indefinite leave to remain on the grounds that he did not meet the continuous residence requirement, after his leave was wrongly cancelled in 2014 when the Home Office alleged that he had obtained an English language test by deception. It is an unreported judicial review […]
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