The Situation Room

The important starting point is not the application form. It is understanding your circumstances, your options and where each route may lead. Get Advice Understanding What You Are Trying to Achieve Choosing an immigration route usually begins with the outcome. You may want to: Sometimes there is an obvious route. Sometimes several possibilities need to […]

Immigration problems do not always begin with knowing which application to make. You may know what you want to achieve but be unsure whether you qualify. You may have difficulty providing the usual evidence, be approaching the expiry of your visa, have received an unexpected request from the Home Office or simply be unsure what […]

There are circumstances where the concern is not simply that an immigration decision is wrong, but that the way the decision was made may be legally challengeable. Judicial Review is a specialist legal procedure concerned with the lawfulness of a decision, action or failure to act by a public body. It is not an alternative […]

If the Home Office has refused an application and the decision appears to contain an error, Administrative Review may provide a way for an eligible decision to be reconsidered. Not every refusal carries a right to Administrative Review. The starting point is understanding the decision you have received, the deadline that applies and what options […]

Receiving an immigration refusal can be particularly serious where the decision affects your family life, protection, residence or ability to remain in the United Kingdom. Some Home Office decisions carry a legal right of appeal to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. Others do not. Understanding which position applies, and acting within the relevant deadline, is […]

An adverse immigration decision does not always tell you what the next step should be A refusal, incorrect decision or unresolved immigration problem can change the direction of a case very quickly. The immediate instinct may be to challenge the decision. But before deciding whether the answer is an Administrative Review, an Appeal, Judicial Review […]

If your UK visa or immigration application is taking longer than expected, we can assess where the application stands, what the Home Delayed Application Assessment Understand your application timeline and your next practical step Waiting for an immigration decision can leave important plans unsettled. You may be waiting to start work, begin a course, join […]