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Plan to simplify UK's 1,100 pages of immigration rules

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    Law Commission proposes shakeup to make regulations easier to follow for applicants

    People would be able to more easily understand the UK’s immigration rules under a proposed shakeup of the regulations by the government’s law advisers that would simplify the current 1,100 pages of regulations.

    The Law Commission, which reviews and recommends changes to legislation, is to consult on a range of proposals on the immigration rules, which set out the policy and practice of the home secretary in regulating the entry and stay of people in the UK.

    The proposals include an audit of overlapping rules and a limit to the number of times a year the rules are changed. The Home Office has sponsored the independent body to complete the project, which will not consider any issue of substantive immigration policy.

    The commission believes simpler rules would increase transparency for applicants and lead to quicker decision-making by Home Office caseworkers.

    Critics, including senior judges and lawyers, frequently criticise the labyrinthine rules for being repetitive, archaic and hard to navigate for people looking to move, work, study, visit or seek asylum in the UK.

    Since their introduction in 1973, the rules have grown from 40 pages to 1,100, and in the last 10 years have almost quadrupled in length.

    An exercise by the Guardian last year revealed Home Office officials had made more than 5,700 changes to the immigration rules since 2010.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...k-1100-pages-immigration-rules-law-commission

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