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The Court found that where a family had completed seven years’ residence before the policy was withdrawn, then they were entitled to the benefit of the policy, even where they had not sought to regularise their position until after its withdrawal.

Zambrano establishes an important principle: The principle that an EU Citizen cannot be required by the operation of national immigration laws to depart the EU and that the ability of the EU Citizen to enjoy their fundamental rights can require a right of residence to be granted to non-EU family members. Whether this argument should […]

The Home Office have reviewed visa fees again. Please visit the UKBA’s website for the most up to date information. http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/britishcitizenship/nationality-fees.pdf http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/fees/

ZN (Tanzania) Judgment is available at: http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/docs/UKSC_2010_0002_Judgment.pdf  In allowing the appeal, the Supreme Court: Noted the context in which the Strasbourg Court considered cases concerning children: see para. 22 and various international standards.  Identified Article 3(1) of the UNCRC as “the most relevant national and international obligation”, an international obligation “the spirit, if not the […]