Immigration issues

A 4-year old Congolese boy was found unaccompanied at Heathrow Airport and Law For All were instructed by Social Services to act on his behalf. We applied for asylum for him and, when Social Services traced his mother in Sheffield, the family were reunited. The whole family were subsequently granted refugee status.

Following an appeal against an earlier refusal, Law For All was able to obtain entry clearance for a woman to visit her daughter in the UK. The daughter, our client, had recently given birth to twin girls, one of whom had a severe brain defect and would need lifelong 24-hour care. The appeal was brought on human rights grounds and we asked the Home Office to take the circumstances into account and allow entry clearance on compassionate grounds. Our client was overjoyed when told that her mother could come to see her grandchildren. The help of the mother for a few months after the birth enabled her to begin to come to terms with her new situation.

 

 

These cases were handled by Tafadzwa Chiguduhis