Alison Harvey

Barrister, No5 Barristers Chambers

Alison Harvey has returned to practice from the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association where she was General Secretary, then Legal Director.

She trains, lectures and writes widely on immigration, asylum, nationality and human rights law. She is a contributor to Fransman's British Nationality Law and to Macdonald's Immigration law and Practice.

She has worked in the UK and overseas, representing clients before the Home Office, tribunals and courts, including working at the Refugee Legal Centre, Asylum Aid, and South West Law. She has worked with refugees, the internally displaced and the trafficked for the UN in West Africa, Darfur and Azerbaijan. She has worked extensively on the development of immigration law and policy in the UK, advising those lobbying on, and challenging, a total of nine immigration Acts (to date) as well as on the development of the points-based system and the immigration aspects of Brexit. Recent training credits include 'The Immigration Act 2016', 'Nationality Law is Fun' and 'Advanced Naturalisation' for the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association and 'Trafficking: identifying and assisting victims' for Free Movement.

She is co-chair of the Trustees of Kalayaan, working with overseas domestic workers, and led for Kalayaan in its work with its legal team for its intervention in the Supreme Court in the Reyes case.

Contributed to

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British citizenship status: deprivation and nullity

Practice notes

This Practice Note discusses the powers of the Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD) to deprive a person of British citizenship status or to declare the status a nullity. It also covers the procedure for deprivation of citizenship, the effects it has on the subject and their family members, appeal rights and relevant case law.

Immigration