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	AIT: FAQs
		The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (also known as the AIT) is an independent body which hears appeals against decisions made by the Home Secretary to refuse a person asylum in the UK or to refuse entry or leave to remain and decisions to deport.
		The Immigration Appellate Authority (also known as the IAA) was the predecessor of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.
		Immigration judges are experienced lawyers and both they and the non-legal members of the Tribunal are independent of the government.
	www.iaa.gov.uk /aboutus/faqs.htm (2946 words)

	Foreign Law: Legal Research Resources on the Internet
		Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA; a tribunal which hears appeals against decisions made by the Home Secretary (and his officials) in asylum and immigration matters; the IAA has two tiers: The Immigration Adjudicators and The Immigration Appeal Tribunal)
		Electronic Immigration Network ("links major information providers with advice workers and practitioners dealing with all issues relating to immigration, refugee and nationality law and practice in the United Kingdom; including EIN Newsletter, and links to other UK and European asylum and refugee sites at http://www.ein.org.uk/resource/content.htm, and Refugee Legal Centre is forthcoming)
		Asylum Procedure Act as amended to 29 October 1997 and many asylum, refugee, and immigration law related links at their
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /~llou/foreignlaw.html (9451 words)

	BBC NEWS UK Zimbabwean wins asylum test case
		The unnamed man would be at risk of harm if he were sent back, the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal has ruled.
		Tribunal chairman Mark Ockelton said the man, known only as 'AA', had a "well-founded fear of persecution" if he was returned, even though his asylum claim had been "fraudulent" and his dealings with UK authorities "deliberately dishonest".
		The tribunal had not found that Zimbabwe was unsafe generally for failed asylum seekers, or for those who returned voluntarily, she said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/4341226.stm (868 words)

	The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal: Home Page
		The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal is the successor to the Immigration Appellate Authority and the Immigration Appeals Tribunal.
		The Tribunal was set up under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004 and came into being on 4th April 2005.
		The purpose of the Tribunal is to hear and decide appeals against decisions made by the Home Office in matters of asylum, immigration and nationality.
	www.iaa.gov.uk (171 words)

	GNN - Government News Network
		All those involved in immigration and asylum appeals, whether appellants, their legal representatives or Home Office presenting officers, now have a single point of contact, an 0845 number, to access information about procedures or simply to find out the status of their case.
		The Authority is the independent tribunal that deals with appeals against decisions by the Home Office to refuse political asylum, entry to or leave to remain in the UK or deportation.
		The administrative centre at Loughborough was set up as part of the IAA expansion programme to deal with increased numbers of asylum appeals arising from the reduction in the backlog of cases at the Home Office awaiting an initial decision on asylum claims.
	www.gnn.gov.uk /Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=48298 (414 words)

	Annual Report 2000/2001
		The functions of the Tribunal are to hear appeals against decisions of the Immigration Services Commissioner concerning the registration and exemption of immigration advisers and to consider disciplinary charges brought by the Commissioner against immigration advisers.
		We referred last year to the challenge facing the Immigration Appellate Authority (or IAA, comprising the adjudicators and the Immigration Appeal Tribunal) in dealing speedily with the great volume of cases that had accumulated at the Home Office
		One matter that caused us considerable concern during the year was the level of fees for the new family visitor appeals introduced by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
	www.council-on-tribunals.gov.uk /333.htm (625 words)

	Villawood repression sparks outrage
		No, it is 4am on July 27, and this is Maqsood Alsham's account of the treatment meted out to asylum seekers in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre by police and the centre's operators, Australasian Corrections Management (ACM).
		“Refugees can be refused by [the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs], they go to the [Refugee Review Tribunal] on appeal, and can then go to the Federal Court.
		The ABC later reported that about half the asylum seekers had been taken to Woomera detention centre, and half to Port Hedland detention centre.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2000/415/415p17.htm (625 words)

	Refugee Law - Asylum Law - University of Michigan Law School
		Catriona Jarvis was an Immigration Adjudicator for twelve years and is currently a Senior Immigration Judge on the United Kingdom Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) (formerly the Immigration Appeal Tribunal).
		Currently, she teaches on London School of Economics LLM course in International Law and the Protection of Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants, is a member of the Editorial Board of Tootal's Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law and works for the Government of Gibraltar.
		Nathalia Berkowitz has worked in refugee law for many years; initially working as a lawyer for asylum seekers and subsequently as Head of the Immigration Appellate Authority (now AIT) Legal & Research Unit where she co-authored the IAA's Gender Guidelines.
	www.refugeecaselaw.org /subsitedetail.asp?subsiteid=38 (399 words)

	refugee-rights@hrea.org - Job opportunities: Immigration Appellate Authority (London)
		An executive agency of the Lord Chancellor's Department, operating through a network of centres across the UK, the IAA is an independent tribunal with responsibility for hearing appeals against decisions made by the Home Secretary and his officials in immigration and asylum matters.
		Ensuring that the Authority's judiciary are kept fully up to date with all relevant information, our Legal and Research Unit has a critical role to play in maintaining a high quality of consistent decision making in immigration and asylum appeals.
	www.hrea.org /lists/refugee-rights/markup/msg00122.html (1631 words)

	Immigration Law
		The Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA) is a tribunal which hears appeals against decisions made by the Home Secretary (and his officials) in asylum and immigration matters
		The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) is an independent public body set up under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
		The focus of the Journal is on current legal issues in judicial decisions, law reform, legislation, legal research, policy related socio-legal research, legal information, information technology and practice.
	www.law-links.info /immigration.html (1631 words)

	Electronic Immigration Network: Events
		[Mark Symes, editor of "Statements of Principle of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal", author of "Caselaw on the Refugee Convention", and co-author, with Peter Jorro of "Asylum Law and Practice", set for publication by Butterworths later this month (Oct 2003)]
		Course One aims to familiarize practitioners with, and reinforce existing knowledge of, methods of high quality asylum appeal preparation, with the object of ensuring efficient, prompt and impressive preparation and presentation of appeals before the Immigration Appellate Authority.
		2.1 Principles regarding Evidence in the Immigration Appellate Authority
	www.ein.org.uk /events/full.shtml?x=163848 (306 words)

	IRR: Asylum seekers and refugees
		The asylum and immigration tribunal has found that the time spent in Britain by a failed Zimbabwean asylum seeker generated its own risk of persecution if sent home, irrespective of the validity of the original asylum claim.
		She is an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), whose family (mother, brothers and sisters) was one of the first to be made destitute under new asylum laws.
		A Kurdish asylum seeker, 47, said he has spent £8000 and six days crouched in the back of a lorry to leave his home village where he was beaten by the Turkish military.
	www.irr.org.uk /asylum (882 words)

	Refugee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (The United Kingdom Court for Asylum claims)
		Some governments are relatively tolerant and accepting of onshore asylum claims; other governments will not only refuse such claims, but may actually arrest or detain those who attempt to seek asylum.
		The most common asylum claims to industrialized countries are based upon political and religious grounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Refugee (3301 words)

	Refugee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (The United Kingdom Court for Asylum claims)
		Some governments are relatively tolerant and accepting of onshore asylum claims; other governments will not only refuse such claims, but may actually arrest or detain those who attempt to seek asylum.
		The most common asylum claims to industrialized countries are based upon political and religious grounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Refugee (3288 words)

	Refugee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (The United Kingdom Court for Asylum claims)
		Some governments are relatively tolerant and accepting of onshore asylum claims; other governments will not only refuse such claims, but may actually arrest or detain those who attempt to seek asylum.
		The most common asylum claims to industrialized countries are based upon political and religious grounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Refugee (3555 words)

	Asylum and Immigration Tribunal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) is a tribunal constituted in the United Kingdom with jurisdiction to hear appeals from many immigration decisions.
		Immigration Adjudicators considered appeals against decisions made by Immigration Officers, Entry Clearance Officers and the Home Secretary, with permanent centres in Islington in Central London, Hatton Cross, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow.
		The predecessor of the AIT, the Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA), was an independent judicial body in the United Kingdom constituted under the Immigration Act of 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Immigration_Appellate_Authority (478 words)

	Asylum and Immigration Tribunal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) is a tribunal constituted in the United Kingdom with jurisdiction to hear appeals from many immigration decisions.
		Immigration Adjudicators considered appeals against decisions made by Immigration Officers, Entry Clearance Officers and the Home Secretary, with permanent centres in Islington in Central London, Hatton Cross, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow.
		The predecessor of the AIT, the Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA), was an independent judicial body in the United Kingdom constituted under the Immigration Act of 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Immigration_Apellate_Authority (478 words)

	BBC NEWS Wales New £3m asylum appeal centre
		The Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA) - the tribunal which deals with the appeals - has leased Columbus House in Chepstow Road, Newport.
		The first dedicated asylum appeals centre in Wales is planned to open in Newport by the end of the year at a cost of £3m.
		The IAA have said that the court is not somewhere where asylum seekers will stay until their appeal is heard.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/wales/2291937.stm (545 words)

	Center for Immigration Studies Web Sites
		The Immigration Appellate Authority is an independent tribunal which exists to hear appeals from decisions made by the Home Secretary and his officials in asylum and immigration matters.
		The American Immigration Law Foundation was formed in 1987 in order to increase public understanding of immigration law and policy and the value of immigration to American society, to promote public service and professional excellence in immigration practice, and to advance fundamental fairness and due process in U.S. immigration law and its administration.
		The mission of Oregonians for Immigration Reform is to support the development of an Oregon state policy on illegal aliens and to uphold a sensible United States immigration policy entailing both illegal and legal immigration.
	www.cis.org /websites.html (3153 words)

	Immigration and Asylum Specialists at Guildhall Chambers
		Tara Wolfe provides advice and representation at the Immigration Appellate Authority and the Immigration Appeal Tribunal covering the areas of immigration, refugee and human rights law.
		Guildhall Chambers is able to offer comprehensive advice in the areas of immigration and issues concerning non-nationals in the UK.
		Ian Glen QC has challenged cases concerning immigration through judicial review.
	www.guildhallchambers.co.uk /Individual_Specialties/Immigration.html (92 words)

	The Australian: One-woman 'crime wave' seeks asylum [December 20, 2004]
		An immigration tribunal has ordered that Patricia Carol Toia, 26, who has more than 30 convictions in Australia, be deported, despite not having lived in NZ since the age of one.
		Toia is being held at Sydney's Villawood Immigration Detention Centre.
		Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said in Auckland yesterday: "She's endeavouring to stop us from doing that by applying for a temporary protection visa, which is applying for refugee status in Australia on the grounds she believes she will be persecuted in NZ.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,11738159%255E421,00.html (92 words)

	Encyclopedia: Courts of the United Kingdom
		One exception to this rule is the area of immigration law; the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal's jurisdiction covers the whole of the United Kingdom.
		The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal(AIT) is a tribunal constituted in the United Kingdom with jurisdiction to hear appeals from many immigration decisions.
		The United Kingdom does not have a single unified judicial system: England and Wales have one system, Scotland another, and Northern Ireland another.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Courts-of-the-United-Kingdom (352 words)

	Anufrijeva, R (on the application of) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2003] UKHL 36 (26 June 2003)
		The appellant unsuccessfully challenged the refusal of her asylum claim before an adjudicator, was refused permission by the Immigration Appeal Tribunal to appeal against that decision and applied unsuccessfully for judicial review of that refusal: [2002] EWHC Admin 383.
		The terms of this note, and the certification of the appellant's asylum claim under paragraph 5(4)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 as not showing a fear of persecution for a Convention reason, make plain that in the opinion of the Home Office the claim was hopeless.
		Had the Home Secretary decided to grant asylum and had the appellant not yet received leave to enter, the immigration officer would have granted limited leave to enter pursuant to rule 330 of the Rules.
	www.asylumsupport.info /kafkaesque.htm (352 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk Society Judges order end to deportations to Harare
		The asylum and immigration tribunal ruled in a test case that an asylum seeker, who cannot be named, would be at risk if he was sent back to Harare.
		The tribunal heard that anyone who claimed asylum in Britain was considered in Harare to be a traitor, and deportations were regarded as "a cloak for an attempt to infiltrate Blair's spies into Zimbabwe".
		Immigration judges delivered a scathing verdict yesterday on the decision of the home secretary Charles Clarke to resume the deportation of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe, saying those sent back were handed straight over to security police.
	society.guardian.co.uk /asylumseekers/story/0,7991,1592828,00.html (592 words)

	Sky News World: Focus on the stories across the globe.
		The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal said the decision will now force the Government to rethink its deportation policy on asylum seekers and immigrants from the southern African state.
		The tribunal also criticised the lack of Home Office research into conditions for returning deportees in Zimbabwe and the lack of evidence collected on a Government fact-finding mission sent in September.
		A failed asylum seeker has won his appeal against the Government's deportation policy to Zimbabwe
	www.sky.com /skynews/article/0,,30200-1198994,00.html (275 words)

	Table of contents for Immigration law handbook
		General Sections 157and#x2013;164 Schedules 1and#x2013;9 Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 Statutory Appeal Provisions with Transitional Effect Immigration Act 1971, sections 13and#x2013;17 Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993, section 8 PROCEDURE RULES The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 2005 (SI No. 230) Part 1.
		Immigration and asylum Sections 21and#x2013;35 British Overseas Territories Act 2002 Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 Part 1.
		CONTENTS Preface xvii STATUTES Immigration Act 1971 Part I. Regulation of entry into and stay in United Kingdom Sections 1and#x2013;11 Part II.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011981.html (542 words)

	HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA
		"By doing so, the tribunal fell into jurisdictional error that renders its decision of no force or effect." In launching the appeal eight months ago, the lawyer representing the couple, Bruce Levet, said the submission to the country's highest appeals court over the issue of homosexuality and right to asylum was a world first.
		Their application for refugee status was rejected by the Immigration Department, the Refugee Review Tribunal, the Federal Court and the Full Court of the Federal Court.
		The High Court majority held that the tribunal should have considered what might happen if the men were to live openly as a homosexual couple and rejected the notion that Bangladeshi homosexuals could be divided into two groups -- discreet and non-discreet.
	www.actwin.com /eatonohio/gay/australiahc.html (736 words)

	Northern Ireland Court Service
		These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) 1980 ('the principal rules') to prescribe the procedure relating to applications for statutory review and appeals under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, as amended by the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004.
		These Rules amend the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Rules 1981 to provide for a new route of appeal from the Pensions Appeal Tribunal to the Social Security Commissioners, who for these purposes are to be known as Pensions Appeal Commissioners.
		These Rules replace the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Amendment No. 3) 2005 (S.R. 2005 No. 191) and are made under exercise of the power in paragraph 3(6) of the 2005 Act.
	www.courtsni.gov.uk /en-GB/Publications/Legislation?UserPref=culture^en-GB (557 words)

	Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session Amendment No. 3) (Applications under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002) 2003
		This Act of Sederunt inserts a new Part (Part XI) into the Court of Session Rules 1994 (S.I. 1994/1443) to make provision for applications for review of a decision of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal in the Court of Session under section 101(2) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 ("the Act of 2002").
		The petitioner craves the court to pronounce such further order or orders (including an order for expenses) as may seem to the court to be just and reasonable in all the circumstances of the case.
		The court may reserve the expenses of the application to be determined by the Tribunal.".
	www.legislation.gov.uk /legislation/scotland/ssi2003/20030223.htm (557 words)

	Boat may have reached migration zone » ABC Kimberley » Local News
		Christmas Island has been excised from Australia's migration zone, meaning asylum seekers reaching the island have limited access to legal challenges and reviews.
		Now, he has told ABC radio's PM program that the Immigration Department is seeking legal advice on whether the asylum seekers entered the Australian migration zone.
		Mr Ruddock says that if the Vietnamese did make it into Australian territorial waters off Port Hedland, they would be entitled to the rights accorded to an asylum seeker on the mainland.
	www.abc.gov.au /kimberley/news/200307/s894306.htm (557 words)

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