Practice area
Visas and leave to remain, asylum and humanitarian protection, deportation and removal, nationality and citizenship, immigration detention, and immigration appeals.
FD is a national of Jamaica who has lived for many years in the United Kingdom. He was made the subject of a deportation order in 2017, which revoked his indefinite leave to remain, and he subsequently made asylum and human…
Mr Sohail Tasib is a national of Pakistan who came to the United Kingdom with his family in 1998 aged six and was granted indefinite leave to remain in June 2006. He married a British citizen, and his parents and siblings live in…
LM, aged 3, is the daughter of two Sudanese parents who were brought up and worked in the UAE, where they married in 2021. LM was born in the USA in Summer 2022 and holds US citizenship; the family returned to the UAE shortly…
The appellant is a Nigerian national born on 25 July 2004 who applied on 15 September 2024 for entry clearance under the EU Settlement Scheme family permit route, claiming to be the child of her sponsor, Faith Omon Odion Omokehe…
The claimant, Haziz Rahim, was one of the individuals whose details appeared on a list of names incorrectly disclosed by the Ministry of Defence, described in the proceedings as "the data breach list". By a letter dated 24 July…
The appellant, Mr Tareque Hossain, is a national of Bangladesh who entered the United Kingdom in February 2010 on a Tier 4 student visa valid until 30 April 2013. He applied for further leave to remain on 1 May 2013 and was…
The applicant is a Polish national who entered the United Kingdom in 2006 and applied for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme on 17 September 2020. He was then awaiting the outcome of four criminal charges arising from…
The claimant, an Algerian national born on 1 July 1977, entered the United Kingdom illegally, saying he had arrived in about March 2011. He accumulated convictions from 2013 onwards, mostly for theft, together with a drugs…
The appellant is a national of Pakistan who entered the United Kingdom in November 2019 on a student visa; her appeal was linked with those of three others under appeal numbers PA/69498/2024, PA/51143/2025, PA/51141/2025 and…
The appellant is a citizen of the Philippines, born in March 1980, who arrived in the United Kingdom at the age of 6 as a dependant of his mother. Beaten by his stepfather, he ran away from home and was placed in care at a Dr…
The appellant, Adebayo Abdul, is a Nigerian national aged 41 who has been continuously resident in the United Kingdom since he was 16. He has two British citizen daughters, aged 13 and 11. He was convicted of a series of fraud…
The appellant, a Nigerian national born in November 1974, came to the United Kingdom in October 2004, aged nearly 30, on a student visa valid until January 2006 and later extended to October 2008. In July 2008 he was arrested and…
The appellant, Sultana Kishver, is a national of Pakistan who arrived in the United Kingdom with her husband on 12 September 2004 with leave to enter as visitors, due to expire on 1 March 2005. In January 2005 both made…
The appellant, RB, arrived in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2007 and claimed asylum, saying she was a Bajuni from the island of Koyama in Somalia, that her clan had been attacked by Darood and Hawiye militia, that she had been…
The applicant, a national of Iran, travelled to the United Kingdom via France, where he had not claimed asylum and had given untruthful information about his identity. His asylum claim rested on an account of his accidental…
The first appellant is a citizen of Somalia and the second appellant her younger sister, dependent on her; the two have lived together since 2005 when they lost their parents. The first appellant married the sponsor, Isa Fos…
The appellant, referred to as FJ, is a young man born in Iran on 31 January 1988 who came to the United Kingdom aged sixteen and was granted leave to remain during his minority. He did not apply to extend that leave before…
The appellant, an Afghan national born on 1 January 1979, entered the United Kingdom illegally on 2 May 2002 and claimed asylum the same day. He said he had joined Hezb-e-Islami in early 1999 as bodyguard to a Commander, a group…
Mr Ganga Bahadur Rana, a Nepalese national, arrived in the United Kingdom in July 2001 and was refused leave to enter in October 2001. He appealed to an adjudicator, who heard the appeal in May 2002 and rejected his claim…