Immigration Law · First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
MHMF & Ors v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
Checked against the judgment on 4 September 2026 · how we verify
Facts
The first appellant is a Sri Lankan national born on 27 September 1986; the second, third and fourth appellants are his minor children, also Sri Lankan nationals, born on 15 May 2023, 31 August 2017 and 16 September 2014. He claimed asylum on the basis of his Tamil race and Muslim religion, saying he had been arrested twice in 2018 after a fight between Singhalese and Muslims and detained for four months before his father secured his release by a bribe, and arrested again in 2019 after the Easter bombings and detained for two days before a further bribe. He said he had thereafter been required to report to the police, and had been harassed, followed and telephoned by people he assumed were police, politicians or the CID. His mother sold the family property to pay an agent, and the family obtained visas for his wife as a care worker with the others as her dependants; he entered the United Kingdom in February 2024 and claimed asylum in November 2024. The Secretary of State refused the claims by decisions dated 7 August 2025, with a refusal letter dated 27 August 2025, disputing his credibility, relying on the country policy and information notes and on section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004. The appeals came before the First-tier Tribunal at Taylor House.
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