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Gherson has represented many clients in appeals to the First-tier and Upper Immigration Tribunals . Recently we have started to see a worrying trend in withdrawals of the UKBA decision days or minutes prior to the hearing. We have been told that the Home Office Presenting Officer’s unit that represents the UK Border Agency at appeals has a new policy that, where they consider the refusal to be indefensible, they withdraw the decision and refer the matter back to the... Read more »

In late March 2012 Gherson represented a citizen of Tanzania in a successful appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) against the entry clearance officer (ECO), Nairobi. The appellant was an elderly lady whose original appeal against the decision of the ECO to refuse her and her brother’s leave to enter as dependent relatives of their nephew (their brother’s son) was heard in the First-tier Tribunal (the ‘FTT’). Her brother’s appeal was allowed by the... Read more »

In January 2012 Gherson represented a citizen of the Russian Federation in a successful appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) against the Entry Clearance Officer (ECO), Moscow. The appellant had appealed against the decision of the ECO to refuse her a visa to visit the UK in February 2011. There had been a mandatory refusal by the ECO under paragraph 320(7A) of the Immigration Rules which applies where false representations have been made or material facts... Read more »

In November 2011 Gherson represented a citizen of the Russian Federation in a successful appeal to the Upper Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) against the entry clearance officer, Moscow. The appeal was against the refusal of a family visit visa to allow a father to join his wife and son in the UK. The visa was refused on the grounds of deception; the applicant had not disclosed in an earlier application for a visit visa to the UK that he had previously been refused... Read more »