London Metropolitan University (LMU) is planning to take legal action, most likely in the form of seeking a judicial review, regarding a recent shock decision by the UK Border Agency (UKBA).
An unprecedented decision means that the University’s license to sponsor students from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) is being revoked.
At least four more athletes have absconded from the Olympics, according to the news agency AFP.
One competitor and several coaches from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s delegation have not been seen since Sunday’s closing ceremony.
Boxing coach Blaise Bekwa was the first to vanish when he disappeared from the Village on Friday. The technical director of athletics then scampered after a Congolese competitor, Ilunga Mande, pulled out of the men’s marathon just two kilometres from the finish on Saturday, and later the same night judo coach Ibula Masengo followed suit.
With the recent reports that seven Cameroonian Olympic athletes have disappeared and are believed to be seeking asylum, we thought we’d have a look back through the years at the history of asylum seekers and defectors at previous Olympic competitions.
The first defection at an Olympics games happened at the 1948 London Olympics when Marie Provaznikova, President of the International Gymnastics Federation, refused to return home to Czechoslovakia due to conditions in the country since its annexation by the Soviet Union.
At the end of last week it was revealed that a group legal action against the Home Office, brought by 40 child-asylum seekers who had wrongly been detained as adults, resulted in a legal bill of £2m for the Office.
The cases were troubling as the children had been deemed to be underaged by social services, but when they arrived at a Home Office screening unit officers ignored the social services’ assessment and were adamant that the youngsters could not be classified as children. (more…)
A British man in his 60s, Leslie Cunliffe, is scheduled to be deported from Australia after judicial authorities have deemed him to be of poor character due to his criminal past. Cunliffe has been living in Australia since 1967, but spent several years in prison after he was he was convicted of having raped a 21-year-old woman near Melbourne in 1999.
At the time of the crime police officers said that the woman had suffered terribly at the hands of Cunliffe, who strapped a bomb to her body as she endured hours of torture and rape, after which he demanded a ransom from her family. (more…)
In this part of the blog we discuss current immigration news, including newsworthy cases and changes to immigration rules.
If you’re interested in learning more about immigration matters, this part of the blog is for you.
