HO response, essentially - nothing to see here, we do this all the time in immigration, it’s our discretion and we do what we like with it

Difficult to see how this is consistent with the notion of the rule of law described by the AG here - using policy instead of legislation + retrospective effect www.gov.uk/government/s...

The policy says that illegal entry or arrival will normally lead to refusal on character grounds, no matter when this occurred. Whereas restrictions on citizenship for people arriving illegally in ss31-32 Illegal Migration Act 2023 would have only applied to people who arrived after this passed.

They refused two modest requests: to remove the policy‘s retrospective effect and to allow 4 weeks for @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social to make representations so that the positions of all people affected by the policy could be considered.

Client is a Syrian refugee who arrived over 10 years ago. Home Office has agreed to amend the guidance to address art 31 of the Refugee Convention - they say this will be done by end May.

Today I am proposing amendments to the borders bill and hoping to speak in debate to be voice for those principles and those people because they are not mutually exclusive. 2/2

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