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UK immigration weekly: UK–France returns pilot, EUSS guidance, UT rulings on EFP and deprivation, illegal working enforcement, citizenship, Afghan data breach—17 July 2025

Published on: 17 July 2025

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  • Key developments
  • UK immigration control: how it operates
  • Sponsored work
  • Students
  • Long residence, discretion and human rights
  • EU law rights and the EU Settlement Scheme
  • Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement
  • Preventing illegal working
  • Citizenship applications
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  • New and updated content
  • Latest Q&A
  • Key developments
  • Future developments—Immigration calendar

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High Court discharges MOD super-injunction on Afghan data breach after independent review

The High Court has lifted a super-injunction that had prevented any disclosure of a major data leak affecting Afghan relocation applicants. The incident, dating to early 2022, saw the unauthorised release of personal data and contact details for more than 33,000 people who had sought to move to the UK following the Taliban’s 2021 takeover. The Ministry of Defence obtained the order on 1 September 2023 after parts of the dataset appeared on Facebook. The injunction suppressed both mention of the breach and the order’s very existence, amid fears that Taliban awareness could lead to extra-judicial killings or grave physical harm to those concerned. Further details are set out in...

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