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To give you a sense of how hard the Home Office tries to confuse people as to the law let's look at one tiny bit of hundreds of pages of new rules.
Let's start with the relevant bit of the Explanatory Memorandum.
Let's start with the relevant bit of the Explanatory Memorandum.
Simple yes? Nice of them to so clearly state in their explanatory notes attached to the rules what each bit of the rules does.
Part 9 sets out the powers to refuse or cancel visas based on 'suitability'. It does not apply to the Appendix FM route.
Part 9 sets out the powers to refuse or cancel visas based on 'suitability'. It does not apply to the Appendix FM route.
Appendix FM is the route by which british people and british residents get foreign national spouses and partners to come and live with them in the UK. . Where it goes wrong families end up torn apart. Children don't see their parents for years, decades even.
Let's now look at what the actual new Immigration Rules say.
That's a very long list of exceptions where Part 9 actually DOES apply to Appendix FM isn't it? I wonder what those could be?
Probably totally unimportant otherwise I'm sure they'd have drawn attention to it in the very helpful Explanatory Notes.
Probably totally unimportant otherwise I'm sure they'd have drawn attention to it in the very helpful Explanatory Notes.
Oh no wait, one of them is actually a provision that lets them cancel your leave as the spouse of a British Citizen because you fail to attend a MEDICAL EXAMINATION.
Absolutely nothing that you should have bothered to read. Don't trouble yourself.
Absolutely nothing that you should have bothered to read. Don't trouble yourself.
This is fucked up beyond measure. Ordinary people are expected to live their lives by these rules. They get their status removed, detained, turfed out of their homes and jobs at the drop of a hat when they don't comply.
The Rules themselves are published at the last minute and are incomprehensible to most lawyers and indeed most judges, let alone anyone who's not tweeting about this at 7pm.
No one gets legal aid because the Home Office claims these things are simple enough.
No one gets legal aid because the Home Office claims these things are simple enough.
And then the Explanatory Notes, the one thing that anyone normal could possibly be expected to understand, are written in such a misleading way they direct you away from reading things that could be utterly crucial to your life.
This is not how a lawful system operates.
This is not how a lawful system operates.
