Visas and leave to remain, asylum and humanitarian protection, deportation and removal, nationality and citizenship, immigration detention, and immigration appeals.
Immigration LawFirst-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)14 Aug 2026
The appellant, a national of Bangladesh, appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) against the Secretary of State's decision of 22 January 2025 refusing his protection and human rights claims. He…
Immigration LawUpper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)18 May 2026[2026] UKUT 317 (IAC)Added 17 Aug 2026
The appellant, 'SU', a Bangladeshi national granted anonymity under rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, arrived in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2021 with leave to enter as a student, ceased studying…
Immigration LawUpper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)27 Jul 2026[2026] UKUT 315 (IAC)Added 14 Aug 2026
LR, an Albanian national born on 27 May 2005 and from the outskirts of Tirana, left Albania in November 2021, aged 16, with his abusive father and travelled to Belgium for medical treatment. He escaped from his father there and…
Family LawThe Family Division of the High Court14 Aug 2026[2026] EWHC 2171 (Fam)
D is an eight year old boy whose mother brought him to England from a Caribbean country, referred to as country H, on 16 March 2024 without his father's knowledge or consent, shortly after the family court in country H had…
Administrative / Public LawFirst-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber)13 Aug 2026[2026] UKFTT 1159 (GRC)
The appellant, Larry Julien, stepped into proceedings begun by his father, Mr Peter Julien, whose ill-health prevented him from continuing. On 3 February 2025 Mr Peter Julien wrote to the Home Office seeking records relating to…
Immigration LawThe Administrative Court (King's Bench Division)12 Aug 2026[2026] EWHC 2157 (Admin)
The claimants are seven prospective students affected by a change to the Immigration Rules which made nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan ineligible for a student visa — the "Student Visa Brake" — introduced by…
Administrative / Public LawThe Administrative Court (King's Bench Division)11 Aug 2026[2026] EWHC 2150 (Admin)
The claimants are a family of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers accommodated by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under sections 95-96 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. BM and SL arrived in the United Kingdom in…
Administrative / Public LawThe Administrative Court (King's Bench Division)11 Aug 2026[2026] EWHC 2147 (Admin)
The two claimants, anonymised as CBC and GSD, are Afghan citizens who worked as security guards at the British Embassy, Kabul, employed by the private contractors G4S and, in GSD's case, later GardaWorld. Both applied for…
Administrative / Public LawThe Administrative Court (King's Bench Division)29 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 1956 (Admin)Added 10 Aug 2026
The claimant, anonymised as FZW, and her older sister, anonymised as MSW, are Eritrean nationals. Their mother died in 2013 and their father is disabled; by 2019 the sisters were living by themselves in a refugee camp in…
Administrative / Public LawThe Administrative Court (King's Bench Division)7 Aug 2026[2026] EWHC 2108 (Admin)
The claimant, a former judge of the anti-terrorism court ("ATC") in Kabul, applied under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy ("ARAP") for relocation to the United Kingdom with his immediate family, the first to eighth…
Administrative / Public LawThe Administrative Court (King's Bench Division)16 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 2063 (Admin)Added 3 Aug 2026
The claimant, SA, is an asylum seeker who claims to have been a child at the time of his application, and who brought a claim for judicial review against Pembrokeshire County Council. His personal circumstances are intimately…
Administrative / Public LawThe Administrative Court (King's Bench Division)31 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 2033 (Admin)
The Claimant, CGM, is an Afghan national who sought relocation to the UK under the Afghanistan Response Route (ARR), a policy introduced by the Secretary of State for Defence following the Ministry of Defence's February 2022 data…
Immigration LawThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)31 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 973
The respondents are members of an Afghan family seeking entry clearance to the United Kingdom to join their relative, the Sponsor, a recognised refugee who fled Afghanistan in 2015/2016 after being pressured to join the Taliban…
Administrative / Public LawThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)31 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 992
FGF applied for naturalisation as a British citizen in January 2020. The Home Secretary refused his application in February 2022 on good character grounds under section 6(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981, certifying that…
Immigration LawThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 1014
FA is a 67-year-old Palestinian woman resident in Gaza who wished to travel to the United Kingdom for private medical treatment for spinal stenosis, staying with her daughter, who has lived in the United Kingdom since 2006 and…
Immigration LawThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 1008
The appellant, Tajamal Hazoor Randhawa, is a national of Pakistan with a wife and six children in Pakistan and a brother who moved to Italy in 1998 and acquired Italian nationality. The appellant says he relocated to Italy in…
Immigration LawThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 1000
Mr Hirtie, a Romanian national born in 1998, entered the UK in 2016/17 and was later granted leave to remain until April 2026 under the EU Settlement Scheme. He lives with his partner, also Romanian, and their two children, born…
Civil ProcedureThe King's Bench Division of the High Court30 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 1989 (KB)
The three claimants, C2 (Mosaraf Hossain), C6 (Naveed Khan) and C11 (Ashiqur Rahman), brought claims in the King's Bench Division against the Home Office arising out of allegations that they had obtained TOEIC English language…
Immigration LawThe Administrative Court (King's Bench Division)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 1979 (Admin)
The claimant, Daniel's Special Care Limited, is a care provider business based in England supplying domiciliary care to vulnerable service users. It was granted a sponsor licence on 2 December 2021, permitting it to sponsor…
Civil ProcedureThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)8 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 997Added 30 Jul 2026
Mr Khan, a national of Pakistan, wished to visit the United Kingdom and applied for entry clearance on 30 October 2024. The Secretary of State for the Home Department refused the application on 28 November 2024. A pre-action…