Alex Papasotiriou
Alex is a barrister at Richmond Chambers. He advises on all matters of UK immigration and nationality law and appears regularly before the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier and Upper Tribunal in statutory appeals and judicial review applications.
Alex represented the appellant in the case of Maisiri (EUSS, Zambrano, ‘Realistic Prospect’ policy) [2024] UKUT 00235, where the Upper Tribunal held that the Secretary of State's guidance on EUSS applications by Zambrano carers has been wrong since 14 December 2022.
He authors articles on immigration, human rights, refugee and public law matters. His case notes have been published in ILPA Monthly and the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law. His latest commentary on Ali v Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 372 appeared on Vol 38.3 of the JIANL.
Alex is an ILPA tutor, having given seminars on long residence, section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971, paragraph 39E of the Immigration Rules and validity of applications. He is also a co-convenor of ILPA’s Courts and Tribunals Working Group.