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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Legal Update

Coronavirus update The GOV.UK guidance has been amended. On 17 January 2021, the availability of exceptional assurance was extended to 28 February 2021. The following day the guidance under ‘If you […]

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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Legal Update

Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: CP 361, 31 December 2020 (31 December 2020) The latest statement of changes implemented commitments within the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement relating […]

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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Activities

Recent Working Groups Economic Migration Working Group At the January meeting, we discussed the latest developments in relation to COVID-19 concessions. Our Legal and Parliamentary Officer provided an update on […]

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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Activities

Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) meeting The ILPA Secretariat and ILPA members attended a session with the Home Office on the new Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) route. An operational […]

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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Activities

Equalities subgroup Our Legal and Parliamentary Officer attended the NASF Equalities subgroup. UKVI’s vulnerability strategy, MOD sites and equality issues were on the agenda. Inadequate access to legal advice, screening […]

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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Activities

COVID In 2021, we raised concerns around the switching concession, namely that applications should not be required to be urgent. This has now been implemented (except for family and personal […]

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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Activities

Third party contractors In December 2020 we circulated a survey concerning third party issues and raised members’ responses to it at a meeting with UKVI on 17 December. The lack of free […]

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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Activities

The Simplification of the Rules Taskforce (SORT) At the latest SORT meeting we raised comments on the draft overseas domestic worker and graduate routes. Our next step is to identify […]

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ILPA Monthly January 2021 – Activities

Consultation responses The Court of Appeal response was submitted on 11 January 2021.