Glossary Section for Immigration Legal Terms

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To rapidly accelerate or increase the priority level of a given issue. In the immigration context, i...

To leave one's home country in order to live permanently in a new country.

The ECHR is an international legal instrument adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe. I...

An amalgamation of twenty-five independent states based on the European Communities. Formerly known ...

The percentage of total in employment against all people in the relevant age group.

"European Union (EU) countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Formed on 1 January 1994. ...

To speed up the progress of something; expeditious means speedy or quick. Under immigration law, cer...

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg was established by the European Convention on Human ...

ELR was a form of immigration status in use before April 2003. It was granted to asylum seekers who ...

Employment and Support Allowance is an allowance aimed at helping people with an illness or disabili...

To be kept out or not included. In the immigration context, exclusion typically refers to a foreign ...

"The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 28 countries. Austria, Belgium, Bu...

Economic and political union of 27 member states. The member states are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, ...

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, officially the Court of Justice of the European Union, ...