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Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration advisor
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Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Course image: Mondschwinge/Pixabay.

Course guide

Welcome message: Juanmonino/Getty Images.

Four cartoons (activist, reflector, theorist and pragmatist): Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke/Pixabay.

Session 1

Images

Scottish Parliament: claudiodivizia/123RF.

Welsh Parliament: Roger Utting/123RF.

Northern Ireland Parliament: claudiodivizia/123RF.

UK Parliament: strelkov73/123RF.

House of Commons chamber: UK Parliament, https://www.parliament.uk/ [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ; reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence https://www.parliament.uk/ site-information/ copyright-parliament/ open-parliament-licence/.

House of Lords chamber: ‘9 September 2011: The Lord Speaker presides over the CYP in the House of Lords Chamber’, UK Parliament, https://www.flickr.com/ photos/ uk_parliament/ 6165336011/; this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial Licence, http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc/ 2.0/.

Figure 1: based on UK Parliament (2021) ‘How does a bill become a law?’ [online] https://www.parliament.uk/ about/ how/ laws/ passage-bill/; reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence, https://www.parliament.uk/ site-information/ copyright-parliament/ open-parliament-licence/.

UK Supreme Court: Francais a Londres/Unsplash.

HM Courts & Tribunals Service: © Daniel Parker/Dreamstime.

Courts and Tribunals Judiciary logo: Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.

Screenshot of legislation webpage: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

Screenshot of Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/ 2004/ 19/ introduction; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

OISC logo: OISC.

Session 2

Text

Section 34, Immigration Act 2016: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/ 2016/ 19/ section/ 34/ enacted; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

Section 35, Immigration Act 1971: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/ 1971/ 77; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

British Nationality Act 1981: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/ 1981/ 61; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

Law Commission 2019 report: Law Commission (2019) Simplification of the Immigration Rules: Report, Law Com No 388 [online], https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/ project/ simplifying-the-immigration-rules/ #related; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

MAC: https://www.gov.uk/ government/ organisations/ migration-advisory-committee/ about; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

Video

Video 1: OU (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/).

Session 3

Images

The European Convention on Human Rights: © ECHR-CEDH.

European Court (exterior): Elena Duvernay/123RF.

European Court (interior): Leonid Andronov/123RF.

Text

Section 3, Human Rights Act 1998: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/ 1998/ 42/ section/ 3; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

Session 4

Images

Note-taking: PeopleImages/Getty Images.

Text

Section 82, Immigration and Asylum Act 1999: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/ 1999/ 33/ section/ 82; reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

Code of Standards: OISC (2016) Commissioner’s Code of Standards: 2016 [online], https://www.gov.uk/ government/ publications/ oisc-code-of-standards-commissioners-rules-2012 Reproduced under the terms of the Open Goverment Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence.

Video

Video 1: OU (images: Craig F Scott/Shutterstock; freaktor/Shutterstock; © Trustle/Dreamstime; pytyczech/Alamy Stock Vector; eye35.pix/Alamy Stock Photo; Kuttig - Travel/Alamy Stock Photo; Stephen Barnes/Northern Ireland News/Alamy Stock Photo; Drew Buckley/Alamy Stock Photo; MD_Photography/Shutterstock; Arcaid Images/Alamy Stock Photo; robertharding/Alamy Stock Photo; STUART WALKER/Alamy Stock Photo; Grant Smith-VIEW/Alamy Stock Photo; PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo; © Iconisa/Dreamstime; LH Images/Alamy Stock Photo; alice-photo/ Shutterstock; © Oleksandr Drypsiak/Dreamstime; xiu bao/Alamy Stock Photo; supanut piyakanont/Shutterstock; PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo; Anatolii Riabokon/123RF).

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