The Home Office has wrongly tried to force at least 300 highly skilled migrants to leave Britain under an immigration rule used in part to tackle terrorists and those judged to be a threat to national security, government figures show. The Home Office directly identified 56 cases where a formal reconsideration of its decision to make people leave was required. Paragraph 322(5) of the rules has been a central reason given for the Home Office’s refusal of those in this group. If the numbers of Home Office mistakes remained constant, this would mean up to 87 people have been wrongly forced to leave the UK. The courts agree the Home Office’s use of paragraph 322(5), where the evidence shows applicants have attempted to misrepresent their earnings, is reasonable and to suggest otherwise is misleading.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2018 11:29 UTC