Awards & Recent Successful Cases
Overseas Visas UK Ltd was recently awarded with
‘‘Boutique Immigration Firm of the Year in England 2010’
By Corporate Intl
This award by Corporate Intl was based on extensive reviews by Copr Intl’s research department, who had undertaken extensive research based on insight from business leaders throughout the world and suggestions over the past 12 months.
We believe this success would not have been possible without the continued support of all our colleagues and above all our esteemed clients who out in a good word for us, so a big ‘ Thank you’ to you all.
We are also accredited at level 3 accreditation with the OISC, which is the highest level of accreditation possible for an immigration consultancy.
If you would like to read about our recent success in some of the PBS Tier1s then please click on here. A brief write upon some of the appeal and complex Immigration cases that we have recently undertaken can be found below. If you have an Immigration Appeal, that you wish to discuss then please contact Mrs. Reena Sharma of our offices on 0208 467 1071.
Recent Successes;
Aug 2010 ( Child settlement visa appeal)
Our client applied to British High Commission, Nigeria for her son to join her in the UK. Our client had to leave this child with her Aunty in Nigeria as this child was born when she was 17 and she was put under considerable family pressure to leave her son with family in Nigeria. Our client had decided to apply for her son to join her, once she started working and was able to financially support her son. Our client had not submitted the correct evidence when she applied for her son’s visa which led a visa refusal in Nov 09. The visa refusal dated Nov 09, was received by our client in Jan 2010 from VFS and was past the 28day deadline. This visa refusal was fraught with problems, as amongst other issues it did not state that our client a right of appeal. We contacted the BHC who consented that our client should have been given a right of appeal but told us that they had served this decision on our client in Nov 09 and that the onus was on our client to track the application. We lodged an appeal with the Immigration Tribunal and made representations to the Tribunal to consider our client’s appeal as in time. The court accepted our client’s appeal despite BHC’s stance that this was now out of time. We then assisted our client to put forward the correct evidence. The Immigration judge heard the evidence from our client and based on this evidence allowed our client’s appeal.
July 2010 ( PBs dependant visa appeal)
Our client who was aTIer1 (gen) migrant applied to British High Commission, India for her son to join her in the UK through help of her legal representatives. This application was refused twice as our client had not put in the correct evidence despite having full legal representation from advisers.
Our client then contacted our offices and we helped her to appeal this before the Immigration Tribunal by submitting the correct evidence. This appeal was allowed by the Immigration Tribunal.
June 2010
Our client had made an appointment at PEO for making a 10 year residence visa application on the day his visa was to run out. Our client attended his appointment and was informed by PEO that they couldn’t consider his application as it was too complex in view of the over 18 months gaps in his stay and that he should post it. By the time our client came out of PEO it was past 5 pm and he could only post it on the following day. This application was refused after 2 months and by this time our client’ had no leave and his passport was withheld. We made an appeal on behalf of our client who had a considerable private life spend over 14 years in the UK and based on this evidence the Immigration Judge allowed our client’s appeal.
May 2010 (Spouse visa refusal )
Our client’s visa application for entry as spouse of a British National was refused. We lodged an appeal on behalf of our client and also submitted a representation to the British High Commission, India for a review. The British High Commission overturned our client’s visa refusal and granted her a visa.
April 2010 (Permanent residence visa refusal non EEA national dependant)
Our client who was a Togo national was married to a French national and had applied for permanent residence along with his wife. This application was refused by UKBA on the grounds that our client did not have comprehensive medical insurance as his wife was exercising treaty rights as a self –employed person. Our client had failed to out forward evidence of his wife’s salaried earnings and assumed he could only rely on treaty rights as a self-employed person. We assisted our client in lodging the appeal and putting forward the correct evidence. Our client’s appeal was allowed by the Immigration Tribunal.
Mar 2010 ( Private life/ Human Rights Appeal)
Our client had applied to stay in the UK as a niece of her Uncle who was a British national. This application was refused as it did not meet the legal requirement of a ‘relative living outside the UK’. Our client had then filed the Judicial Review and this JR was withdrawn on the condition that UKBA would reconsider her case in view of her compassionate circumstances. UKBA did not make a decision and unfortunately by this time our client’s application had dragged on for over 9 years. Our client who had built a personal life in the UK had got very anxious at the prospect of losing these connections which led her to making two suicide attempts on her life. Our client had also changed about 3 legal representatives by this time. We took on our client’s appeal and assisted our client to put forward all her compassionate circumstances before the Immigration Judge who after hearing our client’s appeal was very sympathetic and gave an indication that he was going to allow her appeal. Our client has now been given discretionary leave.
Feb 10 ( Tier4 visa curtailment Appeal)
Our client who had a valid Tier4 visa was stopped at Heathrow by Immigration officers and her leave was curtailed on the basis that she had deceived the immigration authorities in obtaining the Tier4 visa and that she was not studying at the college that she claimed she was. We assisted our client to appeal this decision in the UK. Our client’s appeal was allowed and her visa was restored.
Jan 2010 ( Spouse visa refusal- Invalid Application- incorrect photos)
Our client had applied for a Spouse visa but did not send the photographs as specified under the published guidance. As a consequence of these incorrect photos our client’s application was returned as invalid and our clients visa had run out by the time her application was returned as invalid. Our client was not given a right of appeal. We made strong representations on behalf of our client and based on these representations UKBA allowed her application.
June 09
London School of E Commerce Appeal case
Our client was a student of LSEC before it shut down last year. Our client had validly attended classes and was a genuine student. BIA curtailed his leave in late 08 with no in-country right of appeal. We made representations on his behalf and managed to get our client in-country right of appeal. Our client’s appeal was heard by AIT recently and was allowed under Human Rights grounds. If you have a similar case history and need help then please contact our offices.
Tier1 (Gen) Appeal (Refusal on using uplift multiplier for working from India, when the client was in UK) - Our client applied for Tier 1(gen), and used the multiplier to uplift his Indian Earnings. BIA refused his application on the basis that he couldn’t uplift these earnings as he was present in the UK during this period. Our client then contacted our offices for assistance with his appeal. Recently the AIT heard our client’s appeal and accepted our arguments that our client had correctly applied the uplift to his earnings.
Spouse Settlement Visa Appeal; Our client had applied for her husband to join her in the UK for the second time and was turned down on the grounds that her relationship with her husband was not continuing. Our client had been previously through the appeal process herself but had not submitted correct evidence. We assisted her for her second appeal and submitted full and thorough evidence of her relationship and our client’s appeal was allowed recently.
April 09
Tier1 (Post Study Work) Appeal (Refusal on Maintenance); Two of our clients applied for a Tier1 (PSW) in early 2009 and received refusals for not providing BIA with correct maintenance evidence. We assisted in our client’s in submitting correct evidence at their appeal hearing. Both our client’s appeals were allowed successfully.
Tier 1(Gen) Appeal (Refusal on previous earnings); Our client applied for Tier1 (gen) with the help of his University and submitted only a tax document and bank statements. BIA refused his application on the grounds that the Tax evidence ‘ W2’which was spread over 2 years did not cover the exact period in question and therefore could not be used. At the appeal hearing our client submitted the evidence that the TAX document (W2 in this case) did indeed cover the earnings period chosen and consequently our client’s appeal was allowed by the AIT.
April 09;
Student Visa refusal (Failure to disclose previous visa refusal)
Our client applied for a student visa and was refused on the basis that she failed to disclose on her application that she had been refused a UK visitor’s visa previously. Our client was not sure of this previous visa refusal. At the appeal hearing, the British High Commission failed to produce evidence of whether of nor our client was properly served with her previous refusal decision. Consequently our client’s appeal was allowed by the AIT.
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