High court rules Home Office acted unlawfully by failing to provide visa documents

The High Court has ruled that the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s (SSHD) failure to provide people on ‘3C leave’ with the means to prove their immigration status is unlawful. Echoing the problems encountered by members of the Windrush generation, people on ‘3C leave’ – an automatic form of immigration status when a person applies in-time to extend their visa – are given no proof of their status, even though they are “entitled to remain here on exactly the same terms, as regards benefits or entitlements, as they had enjoyed during their previous period of […] leave”. This leaves potentially hundreds of thousands of people wrongly classified as lacking immigration status and trapped by the government’s ‘hostile environment’ policies.

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https://www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/news/high-court-rules-home-secretary-acted-unlawfully-by-failing-to-provide-document-to-thousands-of-migrants-with-valid-immigration-status

More info -

https://bhattmurphy.co.uk/newsroom/court-rules-home-secretary-acting-irrationally-and-in-breach-of-childrens-rights-by-failing-to-provide-documents-to-thousands-of-migrants-with-lawful-immigration-status/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/08/high-court-rules-home-office-acted-unlawfully-immigration-documents

Ramfel v SSHD -

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2024/1374.html