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IN THE UPPER TRIBUNAL IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM CHAMBER |
Case No: UI-2024-001125 First Tier No: HU/57817/2023 LH/00319/2024 |
THE IMMIGRATION ACTS
Decision & Reasons Issued:
On 16 August 2024
Before
UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE LANE
Between
FABIO BARAKTARI
(NO ANONYMITY ORDER MADE)
Appellant
and
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Respondent
Representation:
For the Appellant: Ms Moksud
For the Respondent: Ms McKensie, Senior Presenting Officer
Heard at Field House on 2 May 2024
DECISION AND REASONS
1. The appellant, a male citizen of Albania, appealed on human rights grounds against the respondent's decision dated 9 June 2023 refusing his application for leave to remain. The First-tier Tribunal dismissed his appeal. The appellant now appeals to the Upper Tribunal.
2. At the initial hearing, Ms McKensie, who appeared for the Secretary of State, told me that the appeal was not opposed. The judge had erred in law at [15] by finding that 'the relationship [between the appellant and his partner] began on this occasion when the appellant was in the UK illegally. I must give the family life little weight.' When the relationship had begun in 2022, the appellant's partner had enjoyed pre-settled status and consequently the relationship residence in the United Kingdom was not, as the judge believed, unlawful. In Ms McKensie's opinion, this error by the judge infected the whole of his analysis and thereby rendered it unsafe.
3. In the circumstances, I allow the appeal and return it to the First-tier Tribunal for that Tribunal to remake the decision following a hearing de novo.
Notice of Decision
The decision of the First-tier Tribunal is set aside. None of the findings of fact shall stand. The decision will be remade following a hearing in the First-tier Tribunal de novo.
C. N. Lane
Judge of the Upper Tribunal
Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Dated: 2 July 2024