HD v The Secretary of State for the Home Department

Facts

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 latterly as a barista at Pret A Manger. In September 2022 she was granted leave outside the Immigration Rules for 30 months. In 2023 she was diagnosed with symptomatic carcinoma of the right breast and underwent a right mastectomy, axillary lymph node clearance and implant reconstruction, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy begun in July 2023 and completed in August 2023. She remains under the oncology team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, receiving hormone therapy in the form of Goserelin, regular imaging and specialist follow-up. Her parents are deceased, her brother lives in Poland and her adult son lives in Ukraine with her former husband; she has friends but no family in the United Kingdom. The Secretary of State refused her human rights claim on 8 July 2025, concluding that she would face no very significant obstacles to integration in Ukraine. She appealed to the First-tier Tribunal, relying on Articles 2, 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and on the disruption to Ukrainian healthcare caused by the continuing armed conflict.