[2024] UKUT 00281 (IAC)

The Applicant applied for administrative review (page [96]/CB onwards). The Applicant argued that first, the Respondent had referred to the wrong website address, when the Applicant had given the correct website address in writing in his solicitor’s letter dated 23^rd November 2022, which had enclosed the visa application. The Respondent had made an error, not the Applicant.

Second, the reason for the similarity between the corporate names of the Applicant’s business and that of his client in the UAE was that his client, Level Three Trading FZE, was successful and had encouraged him to act as its UK reseller. While they had similar names and had a commercial relationship, this was an arms-length relationship in which the two remained separate legal entities, with separate owners. They were not legally or financially connected in any way other than in a relationship of client and reseller. The Respondent’s decision to refuse the Applicant’s application because of a similarity in company names was therefore arbitrary.

Third, the reason that Level Three’s only income was from Level Three Trading FZE was that Level Three was a new business, having only been established in February 2021, with one client, albeit the Applicant expected that relationship to expand and he expected to gain new clients.