FM and JM, Re Application for Judicial Review

[1]������� This application for leave to apply for judicial review is comprised in an amended Order 53 Statement of 4 March 2020. It is brought by a father and son in relation to decisions made about their nationality/entitlement to a passport. �I have anonymised the case as the second named applicant is a child.

[2]������� Counsel have asked me to deal with the leave application on the papers and I am grateful to them for the written arguments they have provided.� Mr Mercer QC and Ms Fionnuala Connolly BL appear on behalf of the applicant and Mr Philip Henry BL on behalf of the proposed respondents.

[6]������� The applicant had various children during the years 2002 to 2006 with his first wife. �In 2008 the applicant separated from his first wife and married his second wife, again a Bangladeshi national. His son, the second-named applicant, JM was born in Bangladesh in 2012.

[7]������� On 26 November 2012 the applicant�s British passport was renewed for 10 years from 26 November 2012 to 26 November 2022.� On 8 October 2014 a British passport was issued to JM on the basis of descent.� In 2016 the applicant obtained a divorce decree.� Then, in February 2018 the applicant alleges his house was burgled and that the confirmatory letter in relation to his status was stolen.� In November 2018 the applicant�s second wife entered the UK on a Zambrano visa accompanying JM who was a British national.�

[9] ������ �On 2 August 2019 the applicant�s wife�s Zambrano extension was refused.� On 11 October 2019 both the applicants FM and JM received letters from the HMPO stating that their British passports had been revoked.�