It’s goodbye to 2024 in this month’s podcast, with Sonia and Barry wrapping up December. They spend a bit of time discussing eVisas at the beginning of the podcast, before moving on to asylum and trafficking where issues around the quality of decision making have been raised in a couple of different posts. Barry covered two Court of Appeal decisions on the EU Settlement Scheme as well as an Upper Tribunal decision on deportation of EU nationals. Sonia discussed OISC’s name change and suggests that time and money might have been better spent on resolving the various issues with the new online portal. All that and much more! The 46 minute long podcast follows the running order below:  eVisas (00:40) eVisas and the hostile environment: a disaster waiting to happen Home Office minister makes statement on eVisas Asylum (13:10) Briefing: current problems in the UK asylum system and how to address them Migrant Help: now more helpful? Court of Appeal dismisses Iranian asylum appeal Afghan family to have application decided a sixth time after unfair refusal Recent changes to the policy on granting leave to survivors of trafficking Inspection of trafficking decision making body finds speed prioritised over quality EUSS (23:10) Court of Appeal says that application made to EU Settlement Scheme was correctly rejected Court of Appeal allows appeal on EU Settlement Scheme dependency rules Procedure (29:05) New Presidential Guidance on litigation friends in the tribunals Leave obtained by deception does not count as “continuous lawful residence” Court of Appeal finds Home Office cannot use the same certification decision in successive removals