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Cite as: [2018] UKAITUR EA80452016, [2018] UKAITUR EA080452016
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Upper Tribunal
(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Numbers: EA/08045/2016
EA/08051/2016
THE IMMIGRATION ACTS
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Heard at Field House |
Decision & Reasons Promulgated |
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On 3 rd April 2018 |
On 17 th April 2018 |
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Before
UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE MARTIN
Between
mrs jaspreet kaur
Mr Sarabjeet Singh
(ANONYMITY DIRECTION NOT MADE)
Appellant
and
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT
Respondent
Representation :
For the Appellant: Mr A Rehmen (London Imperial Immigration Services)
For the Respondent: Mr T Melvin (Senior Home Office Presenting Officer)
DECISION AND REASONS
1. This is an appeal to the Upper Tribunal by the Appellants in relation to a decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge Griffith decided and promulgated on 25 th August 2017 on the papers. The reason for that was because the Appellants had made applications for residence cards as extended family members of a cousin who was married to an EEA national exercising treaty rights in the UK.
2. At the time the Judge dealt with it the relevant case law was Sala (extended family members - right of appeal) [2016] UKUT 411. That case was a case in the Upper Tribunal finding that extended family members did not have a right of appeal and on that basis the Judge dismissed the appeals for want of jurisdiction. However, we now have the case of Khan [2017] EWCA Civ 1755 by the Court of Appeal decided on 22 nd August 2017. That case determined that Sala was wrongly decided and that extended family members do have a right to appeal.
3. Accordingly, through no fault of the First-tier Tribunal Judge who decided the case the jurisdiction point was wrong and therefore the First-tier Tribunal did have an appeal before it, it is only right that that appeal is determined in the First-tier Tribunal and for that reason the decision is set aside and remitted to the First-tier Tribunal for a full rehearing. It is not clear from the file whether an oral hearing was requested and paid for but no doubt that can be determined in the First-tier Tribunal.
Decision
The appeal to the Upper Tribunal is allowed to the extent that the First-tier Tribunal's decision is set aside and the matter remitted to the First-tier Tribunal for a full rehearing.
No anonymity direction is made.
Signed Date 13 th April 2018