Administrative removal

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Practice notes

Administrative removal

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Produced in partnership with Claudia Neale of Garden Court Chambers

Practice notes
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This PrACTice Note outlines the process of administrative removal following the changes made by the Immigration Act 2014, including who is and is not liable for removal and where they may be removed to. It also covers the factors to be taken into account when reaching a decision on removal and the additional Safeguards applicable for family cases.

Further changes regarding removal Notices were made by the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, but these are not all yet in force. For more information, see News Analysis: Nationality and Borders Act 2022—summary for non-asylum practitioners. From 20 November 2023, the removal notices process and time limits have been placed on a statutory footing, with a usual requirement for a five-working day notice period, valid for 21 days if a first attempt at removal fails for reasons outside the control of the Home Office (see below).

The 2022 Act as enacted would also provide for a system of ‘priority removal notices’ (PRNs), designed to ‘reduce the extent to which people can frustrate removals through sequential or unmeritorious claims,

Claudia Neale
Claudia Neale

Legal Researcher, Garden Court Chambers

Claudia Neale was called to the Bar in 2013 and completed her pupillage at Garden Court Chambers in 2014. She was a practising barrister from 2014-2017, specialising in immigration and asylum law. In 2018, she left the Bar to take up her current role as Legal Researcher at Garden Court Chambers. She is a co-editor of Macdonald’s Immigration Law and Practice, a contributor to Butterworths Immigration Law Service, and an assistant consultant editor for the British nationality volume of Halsbury’s Laws of England.

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