Maintenance Refusals Review of Cases

After the judgments in the recent cases of Secretary of State for the Home Department V Pankina the UKBA have put transitional arrangements in place for migrants that submitted ENTRY CLEARANCE applications between 23 June and 22 July 2010 or submitted LEAVE TO REMAIN applications on or before 22 July 2010.

So if you had an application refused and were denied permission to enter or remain in the UK only on the basis of MAINTENANCE you are able to request a review for your case.

The regular rules and procedures apply for this review and it should be noted that any applicant that is submitting a review should not include any additional information to support the claim for the MANDATORY MAINTENANCE, the decision will be based on the ORIGINAL EVIDENCE submitted with the initial application.

All the Tiers of the Points Based System are covered in this update and applies to BOTH the main applicants and Dependent applications.