Practice area
Visas and leave to remain, asylum and humanitarian protection, deportation and removal, nationality and citizenship, immigration detention, and immigration appeals.
The appellant, AA, is a 52-year-old Iraqi national, an Arab Sunni from Baghdad, who arrived in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2022 and applied for asylum on 19 January 2023. He had worked in Iraq as a labourer, in restaurants, as…
The appellant, T S, is a citizen of Bangladesh who claimed asylum in the United Kingdom in June 2023. Her two daughters, aged 20 and 17, are her dependants for the purposes of the appeal. She asserted that she would be at risk on…
The appellant, J.M., is a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago who appealed under section 82 of the Nationality Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 against the Secretary of State's decision of 19 August 2025 refusing his protection and…
The appellant, Ms Leiyana Damba, is an experienced immigration adviser who has worked in the field since 2012 and was previously registered under the Immigration Advice Authority scheme as a Level 3 adviser. She was employed by…
The appellant, AA, is an adult Iraqi citizen and ethnic Kurd from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He left Iraq in September 2023, arrived in the United Kingdom in November 2023 and claimed asylum shortly afterwards, his screening…
The appellant, GS, is a citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, born in 1990. She applied on 7 March 2023 for protection and on human rights grounds, claiming that she is a lesbian and would be at risk on return to the…
The appellant, XW, is a Chinese national in her late thirties who entered the United Kingdom in December 2008 aged 20. A Home Office document issued at the airport recorded that an asylum claim was made on the day of her arrival…
The appellant, QR, is an Iranian national of Kurdish ethnicity who worked as a Kolbar and left Iran unlawfully. He applied for leave to remain on 2 May 2024, and the Secretary of State for the Home Department refused that…
The appellant, ZT, an Ethiopian national of Tigrayan ethnicity, appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) against the Entry Clearance Officer's decision of 28 December 2024 refusing his protection and…
The appellant, N.R.J.A., is a Sri Lankan national who entered the United Kingdom on 8 May 2013 as a student with leave until 21 May 2016, and claimed asylum on 12 January 2017. He said he had joined the Sri Lankan army in 2007 as…
The appellant, CH, is a national of Namibia and a member of the Himba tribe, a tribe which the respondent's own Country Policy and Information Note Namibia: Women fearing gender based violence December 2025 confirms practices…
The appellant, MM, is a national of Kenya who applied for protection on 6 November 2024. The Secretary of State for the Home Department refused that application on 18 July 2025, and MM appealed to the First-tier Tribunal…
BF, an Iraqi national, claimed asylum in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2022. His father, F, had been involved in a car accident in which G was killed. The appellant said that G's family, who he described as influential, came…
The appellant, Mazel Richa De Sousa, lives in India with her mother. Her father, the Sponsor, is a relevant EEA citizen living in the United Kingdom. On 3 October 2023 she applied for an EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit as a…
The appellant, AS, is an Iranian national of Kurdish ethnicity who arrived in the United Kingdom in November 2023 and applied for leave to remain on 30 November 2023. The claim was for protection. The appellant said he feared…
The appellants, RF and SR, are Colombian nationals who have lived together as a couple since May 2021. Both worked with a non-governmental organisation as social leaders and human rights advocates, helping displaced persons and…
The appellant, an Iraqi national, arrived in the United Kingdom in June 2002 and claimed asylum under a false name, a false date of birth of 17 December 1984 and a false place of birth, Kirkuk. With the false date of birth he…
The appellant, AS, is a Somali national. The Secretary of State accepted his identity and nationality. On his account, he left Somalia with his family as an infant and travelled via Yemen to Saudi Arabia. The family returned to…
The appellant, FAA, is an Afghan national of Tajik ethnicity from Panjshir Province, born in 2000, who is the subject of an anonymity direction. He made a protection claim on 28 November 2022, which the Secretary of State refused…
The appellant, Isidor Lamah, born on 2 December 1986, is a national of Guinea who entered the United Kingdom illegally in June and claimed asylum. That claim was refused and his appeal was dismissed by Immigration Judge Bircher…