Immigration team train in AstenJ Immigration law Conference

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Samina Iqbal, Sarah Pinder and Bronwen Jones from Chambers’ immigration team joined AstenJ’s Immigration Law Conference in London as trainers on 12th October 2019.

Samina gave a comprehensive overview on the impact of Brexit in immigration law for practitioners to be completely up to date. The uncertainty surrounding this area is causing practitioners and clients alike much difficulty and Samina was able to distill some of the key dates and procedures to follow in order to ease some of us through these turbulent times.

Later in the morning, Sarah covered the new Immigration Rules category of Innovators, which is the second group of workers to appear in Appendix W. However, applying for and successfully obtaining such leave to enter or remain has proven very elusive with a Freedom for Information request showing that only 4 applications were made in the first quarter after the route was opened in April 2019. Delegates received a full summary of the relevant criteria but all agreed, delegates and trainers included, that it remains to be seen how much practitioners and clients will realistically make use of this route.

Following the lunch break, Bronwen continued the Goldsmith Chambers immigration team presence with a lecture on the use of medical evidence in asylum and human rights claim, which was very well received. Including a focus on the recent Supreme Court case of KV, in which colleague Charlotte Bayati represented the appellant, Bronwen’s talk also covered an overview of the Istanbul Protocol and the Experts Practice Direction used in the First-Tier and Upper Tribunals.

The feedback received was widely positive and the immigration team would wish to formally thank Wasantha Tennakoon at AstenJ Professional Training.


 

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