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UK immigration weekly for practitioners: Border Security Bill, Rwanda repeal commitment, eVisa and Ukraine scheme updates, Hartford Care DCoS ruling, BLZ bail accommodation judgment and STEM visa policy concerns

Published on: 06 February 2025

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  • Key developments
  • UK immigration control: how it works
  • Sponsored work
  • Family routes
  • Long residence, discretion and human rights
  • Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement
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  • New and updated content
  • Key developments
  • Future developments—Immigration calendar

Our Immigration calendar highlights forthcoming milestones of note for business immigration advisers.

UK immigration control: how it works

Opora launches Ukrainian language information on the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme

Opora has released a Ukrainian-language guide to applying for the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme (UPES), featuring a step-by-step video and a simple 28‑day checker so applicants can see if they are applying too soon. The UPES opened on 4 February 2025. See: LNB News 05/02/2025 19.

Home Office introduces new counter-terror powers to combat people smuggling

The Home Office has introduced the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill in Parliament, conferring counter-terror style powers on law enforcement to tackle people smuggling. The legislation establishes new offences for conspiring to organise crossings, selling or handling small-boat parts, and supplying forged identity documents...

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