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ACS Visas The place for professional immigration services. For visas, leave to remain, ILR, EUSS, nationality amd asylum we're here for you. Immigration and Asylum for UK.

We also advocate in the First and Upper Tier Tribunals. We specialise in complex cases and have a high success rate.

05/04/2026

Family Reunion Appeal heard after 5 years

Sorry, long read but worth it.

The Client was granted asylum in 2011 and called his pre-flight partner over in 2012. The intention was that they would both study, work and save hard so that he could also bring his 3 children from a former relationship to join. At that time the children were living with the client’s grandmother, or their great-grandmother. In 2017 she died and they were looked after by their aunt on the understanding that this was a 1 year arrangement and he will sponsor them.

However, his relationship with the partner broke down and he had to discontinue his studies on 2 occasions due to financial reasons. He also became homeless and was sleeping in doorways and parks. He also had mental health issues and the council did not support him.

His ILR application was refused since he used the wrong form when he applied himself due to not being able to pay a lawyer. When he went to solicitors they took 2 years, due to poor service, before it was regularised. He started getting his life together and sought help for his children’s applications from Bedfordshire University since they had a programme running. This was in 2020 and with the pandemic lockdown they said they could not support him.

Finally, applications were made just in time before the eldest turned 18 in July 2020 by another solicitor. Some of the information they entered in the application was wrong. They never got him to check the applications and said, “they knew best”. The application and supporting evidence was poor and, unsurprisingly, in October 2020 they were refused. Although they filed all 3 appeals, but only paid for one.

The solicitors would not communicate with him or another 2 solicitors he subsequently hired. Meantime the appeals were struck out since the solicitors never complied with the FTT directions. Quite a mess!

They came to me last year and I had the same difficulties with these solicitors. I then found out that they had been struck off by SRA. There was protracted correspondence with the FTT Legal Officers since they could not access the applications. The HMCTS IT teams were involved. It took 7 months to convince the FTT, some due to IT technical parts, to re-instate the appeals.

Forensically we went through the refusal letters to make sure all the issue were addressed. One of them was birth certificates issued 12 years after the births and the proof of relationship with the client. We also went through all the remittances sent as well as being received and what the money was used for. Detailed statement from the client running to 6 pages was drafted, statements from the young adults/children as well as the aunt, skeleton argument and supporting evidence was put together in the bundle.

I got the FTT to expedite the hearing since they were now waiting more than 5 years since the refusal and they were all over 18. Today, on Easter Sunday 2026, their appeals were allowed. Finally, nightmare over. The 1 year care arrangement was extended to 9. Let’s hope the HO do not seek to take this to the Upper Tier and permit them to rebuild their lives.

09/02/2026

Deportation appeal allowed on private life

The Appellant came to the UK at the age of 15 with his mother and stepfather and obtained ILR, but never sorted out British nationality. He had some motoring conviction and then a 13 year gap before a conviction for 2 years. This triggered a deportation order. In the meantime, he had married and had 3 BC children, with 2 under 18.

His relationship had broken down just before he went to prison. The divorce was finalised when he was inside. In these circumstances I encouraged him to obtain social services reports, but the family was not known to them.

I encouraged his mother to engage an independent social worker, but his ex-wife did not co-operate so there was nothing. She told the school that they should only deal with her, thus closing that door. Even his GP said he had been removed from their list and could not provide his medical records since he was no longer living at the home address, being in prison hundred miles away did not help.

The difficulties on the family life were insurmountable due to lack of evidence. The judge was not sympathetic to. The onus is always on the Appellant to provide the evidence.

However, he had been legally here more than half of his life, he had set up businesses and created jobs as well as purchased the family home. Evidence was patchy. Socially and culturally he was integrated. He could not obtain his father’s nationality since there had been no contact with him since he was 6. He did not know the language, religion or his culture. He could not go back to his mother’s country of nationality since she had no links to it having left it when she was 17. Again, he did not speak her language or have any connections. With good evidence and representations his appeal was allowed on private life basis.

It is possible to win these appeals but the real difficulties are the person inside cannot get the information they desperately need.

20/12/2025

Threat of nationality revocation

Client’s (C) British husband was not divorced when he married C. In fact he always told her he was single and declared it as such to the registrar. His divorce decree absolute/final order did not come through for another 7 months, again a fact he concealed from her. She was granted British nationality more than 20 years ago.

She started divorce proceedings when she discovered he had married, or was in a relationship with someone else. At this stage she became aware of his bigamy when he married her. She informed the HO of the position before he tried to undermine her status. The HO alleged fraud on her part and threatened to revoke the nationality within 2 weeks. She came to us highly distressed at this stage.

Firstly, we obtained an extension of time to better understand the case and develop a roadmap. We asked C to obtain letters from her employer, colleagues, family and friends confirming her good character and contribution to the UK. We also asked for other supporting evidence. She drafted a statement that we checked and advised to make sure the relevant points were addressed.

We pulled everything together with strong representations. Within 24 hours the HO withdrew the allegation and agreed that she can keep her British nationality. She was relieved and this allows her to move on.

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