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Administrative review definition

What does Administrative review mean? In practice, administrative review is the Home Office’s internal mechanism for asking a different caseworker to reconsider an eligible immigration decision because of a case‑working error, rather than to re‑argue the merits. It is defined in the Immigration Rules (introduced following the Immigration Act 2014) and applies UK‑wide across England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Typical uses include challenging refusals of entry clearance or permission to stay (including some EU Settlement Scheme decisions) where the decision maker misapplied the Rules or failed to consider evidence properly. New evidence is generally not permitted unless expressly allowed by the Rules. The review...

Administrative review in UK immigration: Appendix Administrative Review (2024) explained: eligibility, process, grounds, evidence exceptions, section 3C implications, border cancellations, non-eligible routes, and EUSS AR(EU) transitional rules

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Administrative review

Administrative review is the principal Remedy available to contest immigration decisions on applications that are not human rights or Asylum claims. It is an internal reconsideration of a Home Office decision, undertaken by a Home Office official different from the original decision-maker, rather than by an independent tribunal or court. The in-country administrative review regime was introduced in stages alongside the appeals regime brought in under the Immigration Act 2014 (IA 2014), which removed rights of appeal in many routes of entry and stay; that process was completed by 6 April 2015. From that date, the scope of administrative review under the Immigration Rules was expanded to include a number of entry clearance decisions and certain cancellation of leave decisions made at the border. There are significant waiting times for administrative review outcomes; at the time of writing, published Home Office timescales are at least 12 months for applications made overseas and in the UK, and at least 28 days for reviews concerning cancellation decisions...

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