Connaught Law Blog

The post study work visa — the PSW, officially the Graduate route since 2021 — lets international graduates stay and work in the UK…

Section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 keeps your existing leave alive when you apply to extend it in time and the Home Office…

You do not have to put yourself in danger to keep your job. If you reasonably believe a situation at work — or getting…

HM Land Registry now runs digital by default: 95% of applications clear within twelve months, straightforward updates complete in minutes, and from August 2025…

Disclosure is where many criminal cases are won or lost. The prosecution must reveal material that could undermine its own case or assist the…

A person working without permission to be in the UK still holds most of the employment rights everyone else holds. The contract is not…

Immigration detention discrimination claims turn on a distinction the Immigration Rules never spell out: the Equality Act’s immigration exceptions apply to decisions about leave,…

Derivative rights of residence come from EU case law rather than from any treaty right of the person claiming them: Zambrano for the carer…

Divorce after five years’ separation — the old ground that needed no consent — was abolished with the rest of the fault-and-facts system in…

Immigration bail is not release. It is a status: you are liable to detention, you are not currently detained, and you are subject to…

Extended family members are the group free movement treated least generously and Brexit treated worst of all. Their residence was never automatic: it had…

Partners and parents reach settlement on one of two clocks: the five-year route for those meeting every requirement — income, English, relationship evidence —…