Domestic Violence
Most of us know about domestic violence and immediately think about the male partner inflicting abuse on the female partner, but this case was different.
Mr X was a Pakistani man from a village, he married his maternal aunty's daughter (cousin). Like most marriages in Pakistan, this was also arranged by the spouse's elders.
Mr X had lived his whole life in village and was illiterate, he was not able to speak or read English, in fact he could not read or write Urdu and was only able to speak Patwari (a local dialect of Punjabi).
After the marriage, a few weeks later Mr X got his visa to come to the United Kingdom for settlement in the UK as the spouse of his wife.
It was a new beginning for him, he was excited and happy to be joining his wife and also , what he imagined would be a better life than what he had in his village in Pakistan.
However his happiness was very short lived.
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Asylum, Nationality and Spouse Visa
This is a very fascinating case about a Mr S who came from Afghanistan. Like many Afghans, Mr S came in to the UK clandestinely. Once he was on British soil he claimed asylum.
The process of asylum was a lot different to what it is now.
The story he told me about the situation in Afghanistan unsettled me. I was shocked to hear how he managed to escape from a war zone and get to the United Kingdom . I was even further surprised how he left his wife and two kids behind not knowing whether they are safe or not.
Mr S walked to Pakistan from his village, which was some 300 miles away. This journey took him about 2 weeks to get to a camp in NWFP. From there he managed to find an agent to smuggle him to Turkey. The distance from Afghanistan to the UK is about 4500 miles.
Mr S was bundled into the back of a truck, with about 8 other asylum seekers.
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Elderly Dependant.
Mr X came to see me at my office because he had a query regarding his mother-in-law.
He and his wife wanted her mother to settle in the United Kingdom but did not know how this could be done.
The mother-in-law lived in New Delhi, she was all alone because her husband had remarried and divorced her. As is the case in developing countries, women are often treated badly by their partners, families and society, and this case was no different, Mr X's mother-in-law was discarded without any divorce settlement or paternity and hence the mother-in-law was virtually destitute.
In fact her ex-husband wanted her to move out of the matrimonial home so that he could sell it. Even more miserable was the fact that she had a son who also lived in New Delhi but she did not have any relationship with him. Her son did not want to have the responsibility of having to look after his mother, who had little to offer him. Instead, he sided with his father who was a wealthy person.
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Work Permit after Criminal Allegations.
This is a case which demonstrates how one person can change another person's life due to selfishness and greed.
A young man came to me one day; he had no appointment but had heard of our Immigration work and wanted to meet us urgently. After attending to my other appointments I eventually got the chance to meet him.
He was very distraught, naturally I asked him what was wrong. He became somewhat emotional and moist eyed and the proceeded to describe to me the events of the last few months of his life.
All I could do was sit back in my chair and listen to his incredible story.
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Variation of Leave to Study
This is a case involving the rights of students to vary their courses whilst in the UK. This particular client, a Mr H, had been refused the right to vary his course and place of study.
He was somewhat agitated by this decision. We appealed immediately and also provide our client with a list of documents we needed to prove our case. Once the appeal had been written and submitted to the AIT, we contacted a well known barrister and sought further clarification on certain case law. In fact the advice was so positive we decided to instruct him and conducted our case based on our client's history of positive course of study and put together a very detailed case to present to the immigration judge.
Our case hinged on a the premise that failing or potentially failing a course of study should not be detrimental to the applicants application to change course if either the course and/or the institute were not suitable.
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