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

 

 

Upper Tribunal

(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: OA/03499/2013

 

 

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

 

 

Heard at Bradford	Determination Promulgated
On 8 January 2014	On 23 January 2014

 

 

Before

 

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE CLIVE LANE

 

Between

 

Javeria Tariq

Appellant

 

and

 

entry clearance officer - islamabad

Respondent

 

 

Representation:

 

For the Appellant: Ms G Patel, instructed by Axiom Solicitors Ltd

For the Respondent: Mr M Diwnycz

 

 

DETERMINATION AND REASONS

 

1.             The appellant, Javeria Tariq, was born on 13 November 1987 and is a citizen of Pakistan. The appellant had appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (Judge Obhi) against a decision of the Entry Clearance Officer, Islamabad to refuse her application for settlement in the United Kingdom as the spouse of Naser Pasha (hereafter referred to as the sponsor). The First-tier Tribunal dismissed the appeal. The appellant now appeals, with permission, to the Upper Tribunal.

2.             I find that this appeal should be allowed. The only issue raised by the ECO related to the ability of the couple to maintain themselves in the United Kingdom without recourse to public funds (paragraph 281(v) of HC 395). The judge (perhaps because he was dealing with the appeal on the papers and heard no live submissions) incorrectly assumed that the application fell to be considered under the current Immigration Rules; in fact, the application predated the coming into force of the amendment to the Rules and, therefore, the “old” paragraph 281 applied. The judge’s error is such that I set aside the determination and have remade the decision. Mr Diwnycz, for the respondent, did not dispute that the figures of income set out at [9] of Ms Patel’s grounds of appeal were other than accurate. It is clear from those figures that the sponsor has a sufficient income (both from work and from disability benefit) to support himself and the appellant without the couple needing to have recourse to any public funds. It follows that the appellant is able to satisfy each of the requirements of paragraph 281 and her appeal in respect of the Immigration Rules is allowed.

DECISION

3.             The determination of the First-tier Tribunal which was promulgated on 18 October 2013 is set aside. I have remade the decision. This appeal in respect of the Immigration Rules is allowed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signed Date 16 January 2014

 

 

Upper Tribunal Judge Clive Lane