UI2021001777 & UI2021001778

             The appellants' appeal with permission a decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge Row ('the Judge'), promulgated on 21 September 2021, in which he dismissed their appeals against the refusals by an Entry Clearance Officer (ECO) as their applications for family permits to enter the United Kingdom as the extended family members of their aunt, Matilda Agypomaa ('the Sponsor') an Austrian national exercising treaty rights in the UK. Both applications were refused on 21 December 2020.

             The appellants are citizens of Ghana, the first appellant having been born on 16 April 1996 and the second appellant on 28 February 1991. Their application for a Family Permit were made on 10 November 2020.

             The ECO refused the applications as he or she was not satisfied that either appellant was related to the Sponsor as claimed and neither had provided evidence of their financial position in Ghana without which their dependency could not be determined. The ECO was not satisfied that the Sponsor was able to support the appellants as she claimed she earned £243 per week net, had her own home and family to support, and had already sponsored several other Ghanaian nationals who she said were dependent on her as well.

             The Judge notes at [5] that the appeal was determined without a hearing as there had been no objection from either party to the matter being disposed of in that manner.

             The Judge's findings are set out from [7] of the determination under consideration.