AA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer – WLR Daily

Posted May 4th, 2012 in adoption, asylum, children, law reports, sponsored immigrants by tracey

AA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer: [2012] EWCA Civ 563;  [2012] WLR (D)  134

“Paragraph 352D of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules, concerning the entitlement to entry clearance of a child seeking entry into the United Kingdom as a de facto adopted child of a sponsor who had previously been granted asylum as a refugee, did not extend to children who, neither adopted de jure nor de facto within the ambit of paragraph 309A of the Rules, could be styled as ‘adopted’ by reason of having become a child of the family.”

WLR Daily, 1st May 2012

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