The Home Office has today published details of its Immigration
Bill. It is a wide-ranging proposal firmly in the vein of the
recent trend towards toughening up immigration control. For the
sake of brevity, below I will cherry-pick the most relevant bits of
the Home Office's announcement.
Cutting the right of appeal
The Bill will cut the right of appeal against immigration
decisions so that such a right is only held in response to four
types of decision (down from seventeen). This has been on the cards
for some time and is primarily motivated by a desire to strip out
costs from the appeals procedure. Essentially, applicants will only
now have a right of appeal when refused asylum, leave on the basis
of human rights or where humantarian protection or refugee status
is revoked. Appeals against all other types of decision will be
replaced by the system of administrative review, which has been
prevalent wih entry clearance applications. The Bill does not
address quite
