The appellant’s application for entry clearance as a returning resident
17. The e ntry clearance officer ’ s decision , as we have seen, made reference to information, supplied by the appellant in connection with her application for leave to enter as a returning resident, which concerned family members in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdo m . In answer to the question “W hat have you been doing since you left the UK ?” , t he appellant said “ I was living with my g randmother and attending school. After High School I attended the O pport unities Industrial Centre … where I obtained a certificate in Electrical Installation”. Asked why she had left the UK , the appellant replied, “I was living with my grandmother who had taken (sic) seriously ill. She sadly passed away on 21 September 2013 ” . 18. In answer to the question “W hy do you wish to return to the UK ?” the appellant said “T o join the rest of my family, and finish education. Since my g randma passed away in 2013, I have felt lonely without [my family] in the United Kingdom I feel guilty for not supporting my g randmother in her last days… living in the same house still makes me feel even worse”. 19. A letter from the appellant’s father in the UK , sent with the application, referred to the appellant having been “ taken back ” to Sierra Leone in 2004. Since her g randmother’s death, the appellant was said by her father to have “been struggling as she has no close relatives to give her the emotional support she needs as she had been practicably raised by her grandmother. She does not have contact with her biological mother. Her biological mother has had another relationship to start a new family. I would appreciate if Juliana could be granted the opportunity to return to the United Kingdom in order for her to reunite with myself and her sister. This will make it easier for me to support her while she is living with me”. The l etter went on to state that the appellant ’s father “would have applied for her very much earlier, but due to the E bola outbreak in the sub-region, I thought it fit to wait until the epidemic had subsided”.
- Introduction
- The appellant attempts to appeal
- (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
- The appellant’s application for entry clearance as a returning resident
- Appeal against refusal of a human rights claim
- (a) What is a human rights claim?
- (b) What is a refusal of a human rights claim?
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- What is a human rights claim?
- How to identify a human rights claim
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- Refusal notice to be served: all other human rights applications
- Determining if a human rights claim has been made
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- Notices to be served
- Overseas: applications under the Immigration Rules
- Overseas: applications outside the Immigration Rules