EK, SK, MIK & MAK (children, by their litigation friend EK)
Tuesday 17 December 2024 and Friday 20 December 2024 for handing down of Judgment
Application by the Secretary of State for the Home Department for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, if permission granted, the decision of the Upper Tribunal Immigration & Asylum Chamber dated 4 November 2024.
This is a case involving two young children, aged 6 and 9. They arrived in the UK on 19 July 2024 by small boat from France. Their parents attempted to cross at the same time, but were separated from the children at the outset of that attempt. The parents remain in France. Neither the children nor the parents had any form of clearance to enter the UK. The children’s entry was thus illegal; and the parents’ entry, if it had been successfully achieved, would also have been illegal.
By order made on 31 October 2024 (with reasons provided on 4 November 2024), the Upper Tribunal, on an application for interim relief, directed the SSHD to “make arrangements to admit [the parents] to the UK as soon as reasonably practicable”. So on this application, the UT effectively granted the core element of the primary final relief
sought by the applicants.
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