Colin Yeo
@colinyeo
Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Aaaand historical sponsor searches and history of sponsors is working too, I think. Right, signing off for a week, I hope it keeps working...
Forgot to say that the procedure rules and practice directions are included now as well.
Gradually working my way through my extremely sophisticated ideas/to-do list system.
There's also an experimental sponsor licence register look up. Historical searches coming soon. Hopefully later today, in fact.
There's a *very* experimental nationality law checker that runs a user through a series of questions to determine nationality eligibility or status by deterministically applying the Nationality Acts and independence legislation. Still working on this and looking for knowledgeable testers.
Historical searches are possible for the law and guidance as it stood at a certain date.
Law and policy searches now include key legal aid documents (thanks to Paul Keeley for the suggestion). There's a simple schedule-builder for extracts from Home Office country information and also a multi-language search tool for specific country incidents.
First, I've combined the search tools and added a better Free Movement site search to it. You can search using natural language and questions for law & guidance, immigration cases and Free Movement from the same place. And ask follow-up questions to refine results.
For a bit of potential hilarity, Mike Tapp is currently still listed as a Home Office minister despite other updates to the list. No doubt he'll be moved on shortly but the possibility of him staying is entertaining while it lasts.
Second, look at the breaches found. It wasn't just the lying: "failed to serve her client" is in there as the first finding.
Immigration Case Search now includes selected older E&W cases and Scottish, NI and ECtHR cases as well as allowing users to see recent unreported tribunal cases on a topic (with a prominent health warning not to cite them).
The Immigration Rules Browser includes the Statement of Changes from yesterday and you can move the date bar forward to future commencement dates rules.freemovement.org.uk
And the Home Office Guidance Search now allows historical and point-in-time searches. It also has a country info schedule builder (just for CPINs mind) and a *very* experimental multi-lingual search tool for specific incidents in asylum cases. knowledge.freemovement.org.uk
I've been working again on updates to the Free Movement Toolkit for members. On the Immigration Updates Dashboard, version histories of Home Office caseworker guidance goes back to 2014 now. policies.freemovement.org.uk
We've incorporated today's new Statement of Changes HC 259 into our Immigration Rules Browser tool. If you want to see any of the new rules in context you can now slide the bar forward to 30 July and 3 August. Or back to 1 October 1994, if that's your thing. rules.freemovement.org.uk
New immigration rules published. Main changes (from the explanatory statement): www.gov.uk/government/p...
Now with added Explanatory Notes. Down to 8 unresolved amendments and falling. Still need to add a feedback button for reporting any errors etc. This will remain free and I hope it is helpful. Proper write-up from @alexinlaw.bsky.social is incoming for the blog. bills.freemovement.org.uk
Line by line comparisons of four fairly major policy drops today as well (FM members only though) policies.freemovement.org.uk:
On a completely different note, yet another challenging (in a good way, it’s really well-written) and fascinating article from Joe Tomlinson and others kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
Having just read an excoriating report on the utter failure of the Home Office properly to recruit and train initial asylum decision-makers, do I trust them to do better with adjudcators? No, I do not.
“No, not that Australian model!” Australia went in the opposite direction to that now proposed by the Home Office because non-legally-qualified asylum adjudicators turned out to be a bad idea.
While we’re on the subject of quality of the asylum process and decision-making, this is from a newly published @unhcr.org brief on the UK appeals process reforms www.unhcr.org/uk/media/unh...
My write up of the damning inspection report on asylum case work at the Home Office. freemovement.org.uk/borders-insp...
“All decision-making units (DMUs) had a headline target of achieving a 75% quality (QS1/QS2) score for decisions and interviews, yet no core DMU was meeting this at the time of the inspection, nor had this target been met for some years.” And: