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The Court of Appeal has made yet another unfavourable decision – unfavourable to applicants that is – about the points-based system, this time in connection with the Tier 1 Entrepreneur route. (This visa route is now closed to new entrants but still available for those applying for extension or settlement.) Mr Junied, a national of Pakistan, had applied in-country for leave as a Tier 1 Entrepreneur but the application had been refused by the Home Office. The reason for refusal was this.

As many readers will know, the Tier 1 Investor visa enables “high net worth individuals” to invest large sums of money into the UK and acquire leave and potentially settlement on that basis. The rules about the investment – both the amount and the destination – have changed over the last few years. But it has always been the case that the funds that the investor has for investment must be “under his control” (legal drafting traditionally adopts the male gender

At last Brexit has happened. Some will breathe a sigh of relief and others will breathe a sigh of horror but at any rate it is done. But perhaps the sigh of horror will not be as strong as it might have been. So far the dread prospect of no deal Brexit has been avoided, and this has made things a bit easier for EEA nationals and their family members (of whatever nationality) than they would have been otherwise. Such people who