OA159882013 & ors

This is an appeal by the above-named respondent against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal to allow the appellants� appeals against her decision to refuse to grant them entry clearance. I will refer to the respondent by her designation before the First-tier Tribunal notwithstanding that she is in fact the appellant before this Tribunal. The appellants will also be referred to by their designation before the First-tier Tribunal.

� The first appellant (�Mrs Ilyas� (also known as �Ilias�) is the mother of the second and third appellants (�Najah�, her son, and �Najeela�, her daughter) and the wife of the sponsor;

� The sponsor is Kareem Ilyas, a British citizen who permanently resides in the UK, who is the first appellant�s husband.

The appellants appealed against the decision of the Entry Clearance Officer Chennai (�ECO�) to refuse entry clearance to the appellants as, respectively, the spouse and the dependent children of the sponsor.

That appeal came before Judge of First-tier Tribunal Eban (�the Immigration Judge�) sitting at Richmond Magistrates� Court on 16 May 2014. Having considered the evidence the Immigration Judge concluded that the appellants� appeals succeeded under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (�ECHR�) notwithstanding their failure to meet all the requirements of the Immigration Rules.