Practice area
Visas and leave to remain, asylum and humanitarian protection, deportation and removal, nationality and citizenship, immigration detention, and immigration appeals.
J's Supermarket Limited, a medium-sized South Asian grocery business in Tooting run by its director Mr Jalatheepan Ramachandran, was granted a sponsor licence on 16 January 2023 and issued certificates of sponsorship to Naveen…
The appellant, JU, is a national of Bangladesh who entered the United Kingdom as a visitor in October 2003. His leave subsequently expired and he remained here without leave. In 2020 he made a protection and human rights claim…
The appellant, Mourad Ayadi, is a citizen of Algeria who says he arrived in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2002, entering illegally by lorry. He first came to the attention of the authorities on 8 September 2017, when he was…
The appellant, who claims to be Richard Andrew Smith, a British citizen born in Hammersmith on 28 June 1970, has also been known as Carl Barrington Johnson and, on the respondent's case, is in truth Barrington Winston Douglas, a…
The appellant, Ivan Khomych, is a citizen of Ukraine who had made several successful applications for entry clearance as a visitor between October 2006 and December 2012. On 25 May 2019 he applied for a residence card, apparently…
The appellant, Alin Nicolae, appealed against a decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department made on 23 October 2024 refusing her application under the EU Settlement Scheme. The appellant had made three successive…
The appellant, AM, is a citizen of Somalia who claimed protection in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2024. His account was that Al-Shabab had come to his village while he was away and taken the youth, giving his mother three…
The appellant, Shamil Yaraliyev, is a thirty-eight year old citizen of Azerbaijan. He entered the United Kingdom with his wife and two children as visitors at Heathrow airport on 12 November 2024 and claimed asylum on arrival…
The appellant, Simon Bilbao Prado, is a professional polo player with dual Argentinian and Spanish nationality, born on 30 January 1999. On 30 March 2023 he applied for leave to remain under the European Union Settlement Scheme…
The appellant, KSA, is a national of Ghana born in 1993 who entered the United Kingdom on 14 December 2024 with a six month visitor's visa valid until 5 June 2025. He claimed asylum on 27 December 2024 on the basis that he was at…
The appellant, DS, is an Albanian citizen born in 1990 who left Albania on 15 December 2013 and entered the United Kingdom clandestinely on 25 December 2013. He made no attempt to regularise his status and first came to the…
The appellant, YR, is a citizen of Afghanistan who entered the United Kingdom in October 2024 and made an application for leave to remain on 13 October 2024. He claimed to be at risk from the Taliban because his brother had…
The appellant, AK, is a citizen of India who entered the United Kingdom in 2006 and who says her problems with domestic violence began in 2011. On 19 March 2025 she applied for leave to remain, and the Secretary of State for the…
The appellant, born in Pordenone, Italy on 10 September 2009, is an Italian citizen; her translated birth certificate names her parents as Joseph Appianing and Mercy Appianing and records her acquisition of Italian citizenship on…
The Appellants, AT and his three children BT, CT and DT, are nationals of Afghanistan. AT arrived in the United Kingdom in 2023 and claimed asylum; the claims of BT, CT and DT were advanced on the same factual basis under the…
The appellant, AA, is an Afghan national from Baghlan Province who claimed protection in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2024. His account was that he and his brother had for some three and a half to four years supplied food and…
The appellant is a citizen of Sudan whose husband, the sponsor, was granted refugee status in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2022. On 25 September 2024 she applied for leave to enter to join him under the Refugee Family Reunion…
The appellant, Satnam Singh, is an Indian national born on 14 February 1959. He applied for a family visit visa on 18 October 2004 and was granted leave to enter, without permission to work or recourse to public funds, valid…
The appellant, referred to as H D and granted anonymity because of her cancer treatment, is a Ukrainian national who entered the United Kingdom in 2013 and has lived here continuously and lawfully since February 2013, working…
The lead appellant, KT, is a Namibian national of the Herero (Otiherero) tribe; the second appellant, NT, is her child, born in the UK. At the age of seven KT was sent to live with her father in a rural settlement after her…