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United Kingdom Immigration and Asylum (AIT/IAC) Unreported Judgments


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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKAITUR/2018/EA066692016.html
Cite as: [2018] UKAITUR EA066692016, [2018] UKAITUR EA66692016

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Upper Tribunal

(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: EA/06669/2016

 

 

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

 

 

Heard at Field House

Decision & Reasons Promulgated

On 22 February 2018

On 26 February 2018

 

 

Before

 

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE GLEESON

 

 

Between

 

Sheikh Mohammed Monir Sheikh

[NO ANONYMITY ORDER]

Appellant

and

 

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

Respondent

 

 

Representation:

For the appellant: Mr Erum Wahid, Counsel instructed by Universal Solicitors

For the respondent: Ms Alex Everett, a Senior Home Office Presenting Officer

 

 

DECISION AND REASONS

1.              The appellant appeals with permission against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal dismissing his appeal against refusal of an EEA extended family member residence card, for lack of jurisdiction. The appellant is a citizen of Bangladesh.

2.              The decision of the First-tier Tribunal was based on the Upper Tribunal's decision in Sala (EFMs: Right of Appeal : Albania) [2016] UKUT 411 (IAC) that there was no right of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal for extended family members under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (as amended).

3.              The Court of Appeal in Khan v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 1755 held that the Upper Tribunal erred in so finding and that an extended family member has a right of appeal. The Supreme Court in SM (Algeria) v Entry Clearance Officer, UK Visa Section [2018] UKSC 9 at [37]-[38] approved that interpretation.

4.              It follows that the decision in this appeal must be set aside and the appellant should have the benefit of a full First-tier Tribunal hearing on the merits. A Bengali interpreter will be required.

DECISION

5.              For the foregoing reasons, my decision is as follows:

The making of the previous decision involved the making of an error on a point of law.

I set aside the previous decision. The decision in this appeal will be remade in the First-tier Tribunal on a date to be fixed.

 

 

Date: 22 February 2018 Signed Judith AJC Gleeson

Upper Tribunal Judge Gleeson


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