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Cite as: [2018] UKAITUR EA025132016, [2018] UKAITUR EA25132016
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Upper Tribunal
(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: ea/02513/2016
THE IMMIGRATION ACTS
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At Field House |
Decision & Reasons Promulgated |
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On 12 April 2018 |
On 24 April 2018 |
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Before
UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE KING TD
Between
MR OLABINJO OGUNNOWO
Appellant
and
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT
Respondent
DECISION AND REASONS
1. The appellant is a citizen of Nigeria. He seeks to appeal against a decision dated 11 th February 2016 to refuse to grant him an EEA residence card.
2. On 19 th September 2016 an Upper Tribunal decision was promulgated, namely Sala (EFMs: Right of Appeal) [2016] UKUT 411 (IAC). That indicated that there was no statutory right of appeal against the decision of the Secretary of State not to grant a residence card to a person claiming to be an extended family member.
3. Thus it was that the First-tier Tribunal, in a decision promulgated on 15 th June 2017 by First-tier Tribunal Judge Saffer, indicated that it had no jurisdiction to entertain that matter.
4. It also indicated that, in the light of Amirteymour and Others (EFA appeals: human rights) [2015] UKUT 466, an appeal in respect of the refusal to grant a residence card did not encompass without more an appeal in respect of human rights. That required a distinct appeal in the proper form.
5. The decision in Khan v SSHD [2017] EWCA Civ 1755 indicated that the decision in Sala was incorrect and that the First-tier Tribunal did indeed have jurisdiction to entertain the appeal. Accordingly, permission to challenge that decision was granted and the matter initially listed in the Upper Tribunal to challenge the decision. It seems to me that that a hearing is unnecessary in all the circumstances.
6. It is clearly a matter in which the decision of the First-tier Tribunal should be set aside so that the substantive appeal in relation to an EEA residence card can be considered by the First-tier Tribunal.
7. Thus the decision of the First-tier Tribunal Judge is set aside and is to be re-made in the light of Khan.
8. Costs reserved.
No anonymity direction is made
Signed Date 12 April 2018