Sohail Tasib, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Facts

The appellant, Mr Sohail Tasib, is a Pakistani national who came to the United Kingdom with his family in 1998 aged six and held indefinite leave to remain from June 2006. He married a British citizen, and his parents and siblings live in the United Kingdom. In November 2018 he was sentenced in the Crown Court at Cambridge to 52 months' imprisonment for possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply, dangerous driving and other offences, making him a foreign criminal within section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007. Owing to an administrative error by HM Prison and Probation Service, the Secretary of State learned of his convictions only in February 2024. On 16 September 2024 Mr Tasib travelled to Pakistan to visit his sick father-in-law; on 25 September, unaware he was abroad, officials served a stage 1 deportation decision at his home address. When he sought to fly home, authority to carry him was refused on 27 September 2024 under paragraph 14(f) of the Authority to Carry Scheme 2023, made under Part 4 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015. On 13 June 2025 the Secretary of State directed his exclusion and his indefinite leave was cancelled. Farbey J dismissed his judicial review claim on some grounds and refused permission on others; he appealed.