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Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Passport and Biometric Residence Permit are back

For all applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) under the Tier 2 Points-Based System (PBS) in the UK will receive their passports, and their Biometric Residence Permits (BRP), back before a decision has been made on their application under a new service launched yesterday, 6 May 2014. The passport return service working days within 7 – 10 days…
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Polygamy law signed by Kenya’s President

Who could imagine that Kenya with 83% Christian people (source: The Republic of Kenya) have now signed the polygamy law. << Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial marriage bill legalising polygamy. >>, BBC NEWS AFRICA 29 April 2014 (online version) This legalisation of polygamy, allow to marry as many partner as they wish without…
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Old applications do not utilise the New Rules

To the question of whether the new human rights rules introduced on 9 July 2012 apply to applications made before that date: they do not. In specific, it is improper to apply rule 276ADE on long residence to applications that were already outstanding at the date the new rule came into force. Quoting Colin Yeo, a barrister…
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“I am a survivor!”

Yashika Bageerathi can say  “I am a survivor!”. Why?! Well, Yashika came to the UK at the age of 16 with her family and is a model student at Oasis Academy Hadley in Enfield, north London. Now with 18 years old, she almost got deported to Mauritius and with her studies unfinished. Across UK the massive…
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Removals process proved to be a chaos

A report looking at the removals process at the Home Office has just been published by The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. But, what it is in fact the removals? Well,  “administrative removals” or just “removals” apply to the loads of cases involving the obligatory removal of non-citizens who had entered the country illegally…
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