United Kingdom Immigration and Asylum (AIT/IAC) Unreported Judgments

 

Upper Tribunal

(Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Appeal Number: ea/02513/2016

 

 

THE IMMIGRATION ACTS

 

 

At Field House	Decision & Reasons Promulgated
On 12 April 2018	On 24 April 2018

 

Before

 

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE KING TD

 

 

Between

 

MR OLABINJO OGUNNOWO

Appellant

and

 

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

Respondent

 

 

DECISION AND REASONS

 

1. The appellant is a citizen of Nigeria. He seeks to appeal against a decision dated 11 ^th February 2016 to refuse to grant him an EEA residence card.

 

2. On 19 ^th September 2016 an Upper Tribunal decision was promulgated, namely Sala (EFMs: Right of Appeal) [2016] UKUT 411 (IAC). That indicated that there was no statutory right of appeal against the decision of the Secretary of State not to grant a residence card to a person claiming to be an extended family member.

 

3. Thus it was that the First-tier Tribunal, in a decision promulgated on 15 ^th June 2017 by First-tier Tribunal Judge Saffer, indicated that it had no jurisdiction to entertain that matter.

 

4. It also indicated that, in the light of Amirteymour and Others (EFA appeals: human rights) [2015] UKUT 466, an appeal in respect of the refusal to grant a residence card did not encompass without more an appeal in respect of human rights. That required a distinct appeal in the proper form.

 

5. The decision in Khan v SSHD [2017] EWCA Civ 1755 indicated that the decision in Sala was incorrect and that the First-tier Tribunal did indeed have jurisdiction to entertain the appeal. Accordingly, permission to challenge that decision was granted and the matter initially listed in the Upper Tribunal to challenge the decision. It seems to me that that a hearing is unnecessary in all the circumstances.

 

6. It is clearly a matter in which the decision of the First-tier Tribunal should be set aside so that the substantive appeal in relation to an EEA residence card can be considered by the First-tier Tribunal.

 

7. Thus the decision of the First-tier Tribunal Judge is set aside and is to be re-made in the light of Khan.

 

8. Costs reserved.

 

No anonymity direction is made

 

 

Signed Date 12 April 2018

 

Upper Tribunal Judge King TD