In our previous blog posts we have addressed how the government has been adapting UK immigration laws & policy to cope with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. One measure taken was to provide for the ‘automatic’ extension (in inverted commas, because those affected still needed to submit a request for an extension) of visas expiring from […]

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The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown has given some people time to resume old hobbies and others an opportunity to discover the joy of new pastimes (as well as causing those of us who are parents to be driven round the bend with the never-ending cycle of washing up, cleaning, batch-cooking, thinking up novel ways […]

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As the government eases the lockdown, it’s hard to stay on top of what’s open and what’s not. We all probably know, from watching the news, that garden centres are now open but that’s only useful to you if you’re willing to wait in one of the long, winding queues that form at 7am outside your local tree nursery to peruse the stock that didn’t wilt in […]

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Well, it’s fair to say that things have changed. The measures taken by governments across the world to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have distorted almost every aspect of the societies in which we live. Here, in the UK, most of us have been confined to our homes for the last six weeks […]

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