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Examples of our Immigration Work
At Westkin Immigration Associates, our immigration lawyers have an established track-record of achieving successful outcomes for immigration clients in both initial applications to the Home Office and in appeals before the First Tier and Upper Tier Tribunals.
The following examples are merely a selection of the many cases in which our immigration lawyers have achieved positive results (note: some of the examples below relate to non-OISC regulated cases).
Deportation and Human Rights
We were instructed by a chain of well-known London restaurants on behalf of one of their head chefs. He had been convicted a minor criminal offence several years earlier. The immigration authorities reviewed his file in light of the recent political storm regarding foreign criminals. They issued a deportation order against our client. Our immigration lawyers challenged the decision deport on human rights grounds. We asked the employer to come to court to show how valuable the client was to the company and how much benefit the UK gained from that well-known company. The appeal was allowed on human rights grounds.
We have had particular success in Algerian and other Middle Eastern Deportation matters, relying on family links, length of time in the UK and the serious human rights position in Algeria and other Maghrib countries.
Long Residence
Our immigration lawyers have represented many individuals who have sought leave to remain in the UK after 10 or 14 years long residence. For example, we were instructed to represent a gentleman who had been in the UK for 16 years but had been refused by the Home Office when he made his application for indefinite leave to remain because he was not able to produce evidence of continuous residence. Before our client’s appeal, we advised him on which government agencies could provide him with documentation to prove his case, even though he had used multiple names. We also assisted him in arguing that his previous history should not be used against him. At the appeal hearing, his appeal was allowed and he was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
High Net Worth and Domestic Workers
Westkin Immigration Associates was instructed by a UK High Net Worth Individual on behalf of her domestic worker from the Philippines, who had been refused permission to bring her husband to the United Kingdom. She was refused as the Home Office did not believe that she lived with her husband permanently, because she stayed at her employer’s home during the week. Through careful argument, we were able to show that the Immigration Rules did allow for a couple to not stay under the same roof every night, provided that they stayed living together at weekends. The appeal was successful.
Student Appeals
Our immigration lawyers assisted a student who, whilst studying for his ACCA Professional Exams, had his leave revoked on the basis that he had been working in excess of 20 hours per week. After liaising carefully with his employers, Marks and Spencer, he was able to ascertain that the reason for the refusal was factually flawed. We persuaded an Immigration Judge that since the student worked Sundays and was paid at a higher rate, the payslips showed more than 20 hours worked but were in fact for a 20 hour period only. The appeal was allowed.
In a similar case, our immigration lawyers were able to show that a student who had been working more than 20 hours, had only done so only by a couple of hours each week. We were able to show that the law only required that a person ‘intend’ to work more than 20 hours per week and as he had never intended to work this extra time, he should be allowed to continue his studies. The appeal was successful.
Student appeals and “bogus colleges”
Increased scrutiny of academic institutions has led to many more colleges being closed down, particularly those that have large percentages of foreign students. Our immigration lawyers represented a client who had studied at a suspicious college one year before getting married. The immigration authorities not only went after him but they sought to revoke his marriage visa as he married whilst he was a student here. Through careful inspection of the report on the college, we were able to show that there was nothing that incriminated him and he was able to give oral evidence and prove that he was genuinely studying at the college. The appeal was successful.
Asylum and Human Rights
Westkin Immigration Associates was instructed to assist a number of clients who were seeking asylum on the basis of their work for the United States Armed Forces in Iraq. We were able to advise on what documents would be needed in order to prove that the employees had worked for, amongst others, General Petraeus in the International Zone. In particular, the immigration authorities did not believe that our clients had been threatened by insurgents by placing a bullet in an envelope outside their homes. We were able to gather news reports which showed that insurgents often threatened their victims by making death sentences on paper wrapped around bullets. Once this was proved, we were able to gather international human rights reports which showed that those with profiles like our clients were at risk. The case was successful.
Our immigration lawyers were also instructed by a number of clients who fled persecution in Zimbabwe. These were both first time applicants and those who had been refused asylum previously. Using the current position set out in the House of Lords decision in Chikwamba, we were able to assist those who had married UK nationals. We were also able to assist those who feared return to Zimbabwe, based on the latest case-law on those at risk.
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