The Mulberry Finch blog is not immune to the trappings of seasonal festivities and shall now be indulging in a little respite until the New Year. If one could digitalise chocolate, the blog would be feasting heartily upon it.

Wherever you may be, dear reader, or whatever your mode of celebration (or non-celebration), we thank you for your continued visits to these pages. We look forward to a new year of keeping you well and truly within the legal loop, and wish you all the best for the coming year.

A recent decision of the Immigration and Asylum (Upper Tribunal) gives hope to points based system (PBS) migrants seeking further leave to remain in the UK on the basis of an established private life in the UK where they are unable to satisfy the Immigration Rules.

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A High Court judgment handed down earlier this week has attracted interest for its strident interpretation of the obligations imposed on UK Border Agency caseworkers to consider the best interests of child migrants under section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009.

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Whether you’re coming to the UK for love or money; as a struggling student, an entrepreneurial migrant, a newlywed or a newborn - every application, sooner or later, reduces to the pedestrian pedantry of the application form.

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Continuing yesterday’s trend of blogs inspired by the release of internal government documents (which I think gives the blog, and certainly the act of blogging, a slightly more glamorous edge), let’s take a look at a Tory-commissioned report leaked to The Telegraph which advocates the abolition of unfair dismissal laws in the United Kingdom.

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The UK Border Agency has released further guidance on its response to the European Court of Justice’s judgment in Zambrano v ONEM Case C-34/0.

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The UKBA yesterday published a list of financial institutions from which it will no longer accept financial statements as proof of maintenance for Tier 4 (General) Student visa applicants. The list, which will be subject to regular review, presently applies to student visa applicants from India, Pakistan and Thailand.

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