AA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer – WLR Daily

Posted December 19th, 2013 in adoption, asylum, children, immigration, law reports, sponsored immigrants, Supreme Court by tracey

AA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer [2013] UKSC 81;   [2013] WLR (D)  499

‘Paragraph 352D of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (1994) (HC 394), as amended and inserted, which provided for the grant of leave to enter to the “child of a parent” who had been admitted to the United Kingdom as a refugee, did not extend to a child for whom a family member had taken responsibility under the Islamic procedure of “kafala” and whose “adoption” did not fall within the meaning of paragraphs 6 and 309A of the Rules.’

WLR Daily, 18th December 2013

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