24/08/2026
✅ FROM "OVERSTAYER" TO INDEFINITE LEAVE TO REMAIN – ANOTHER SUCCESS AT SHEHZAD LAW CHAMBERS 🇬🇧
📍 HIS SITUATION BEFORE HE CAME TO US: Our client came to the UK as a student in 2011. He applied on time to extend his visa — but never received a decision. Years later, the Home Office branded him an "overstayer", served him with removal notices, refused his family life application and told him to leave the UK. He was married, with a baby daughter, and living every day with the fear of being separated from his family and removed from the country he had called home for over a decade.
⚖️ WHAT SHEHZAD LAW CHAMBERS DID FOR HIM: We examined every page of his immigration history — and found what everyone else had missed. The refusal the Home Office relied on had never been properly served on him. In law, that meant his lawful status had never ended: he had actually completed 10 years' continuous lawful residence in the UK. We put that argument before the First-tier Tribunal — and the Judge agreed. The Home Office could not produce the decision or any proof of service. The appeal was ALLOWED, with a fee award against the Home Office. And when the Home Office then granted him leave on the wrong basis, we did not stop — we challenged them again, then prepared and submitted his settlement application (SET (LR)) on the basis of his 10 years' lawful residence in the UK. It was ACCEPTED.
🎉 THE RESULT: In August 2026, Our client was granted SETTLEMENT (Indefinite Leave to Remain). No more visa renewals. No more fear. He can now live, work and raise his daughter in the UK — permanently.
💡 WHY EXPERT IMMIGRATION ADVICE MATTERS: Our client spent years being treated as an overstayer for a decision he was never even shown. One overlooked legal point — proper service of a Home Office decision — was the difference between removal from the UK and permanent settlement. Immigration law is full of details like this. The right adviser doesn't just fill in forms; they find the argument that wins your case.
📞 Refused? Overstayed? Waiting years with no answer? Don't give up before speaking to us. 📞 Call: 020 7993 8852 | 💬 WhatsApp: 07894 995680 | 📧 [email protected] 🏢 Shehzad Law Chambers Ltd, 644 Lea Bridge Road, London E10 6AP 💬 Message us on Facebook or WhatsApp for a consultation — we speak English, Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi.