The Solicitors Regulation Authority has agreed to delay rules that would have eased restrictions on how solicitors can provide immigration advice to the public. According to The Law Gazette, the changes were part of a revised set of standards and regulations. Solicitors would have been able to provide immigration advice and services from any type of
According to the Guradian, almost all of the investigations into alleged serious misconduct by Home Office staff relate to immigration matters. The Home Office’s professional standards unit (PSU) investigates only the most serious misconduct allegations against teams or individuals within the department, or contractors such as those working in detention centres. A general complaints procedure deals with more minor
It has been suggested that an overhaul of international student visa rules should apply to those due to graduate in the coming months. Current overseas students set to graduate next year are unlikely to benefit from major changes, announced by the Prime Minister, which will allow future students to stay in the UK for two
A solicitor has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal after being jailed for his role in an immigration conspiracy. Sheikh Muhammad Usman was sentenced to seven years imprisonment after he was convicted of conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law by a non-EU person. The tribunal ordered for
Estimates from the Office for National Statistics found that immigration to the UK from the EU remains at its lowest level since 2013. The ONS, however, had to admit the reliability of the data set had been called into question and therefore had been downgraded from “national statistic” status to “experimental.” The data showed net