How immigration rules intended to tackle criminality have been unfairly used against highly skilled migrants from the Commonwealth

The Home Office has been denying highly skilled migrants’ applications for indefinite leave to remain due to minor self-assessed tax discrepancies, some a decade old, writes Dagmar Myslinska. She explains how a provision of the immigration rules intended to tackle criminality and national security threats has been applied against such migrants, depriving them of the right to work, rent, drive, access healthcare, and receive public funding.