VA136802013

The Entry Clearance Officer appeals against the determination of First-tier Tribunal Judge Blackford promulgated on 1 April 2014 in which he allowed the appeal of the applicant, Mr Ahmed Sadeq Raheem Raheem, for entry clearance as a visitor. The Entry Clearance Officer has appealed against that determination but for the sake of continuity I shall refer to Mr Ahmed Sadeq Raheem Raheem as the appellant as he was in the Tribunal below.

The appellant is a citizen of Iraq who was born on 1 July 1951 and he applied on 23 April 2013 for entry clearance as a family visitor. It was refused by a decision made by the Entry Clearance Officer on 7 July 2013, subsequently confirmed by the Entry Clearance Manager.

I do not need to set out the reasons that were used by the Entry Clearance Officer because those are set out in the determination of the judge in paragraph 15 of his determination. Suffice it to say that the first two issues are now no longer a viable challenge.

The first related to whether or not the sponsor, who is the appellant's daughter, is and was settled in the United Kingdom. She has a doctorate and is currently working as a research assistant at Imperial College London. It may well be that the appellant did not produce her passport. That, however, has been produced. It predates the decision and it demonstrates that she is and was at the material time a British citizen and it can be readily inferred from that that the challenge made by the Entry Clearance Officer cannot now be made out.

The second challenge related to the appellant's name. He has been variously described as Ahmed Sadeq Raheem Raheem and Ahmed Sadeq Raheem Al Raheem It had been explained to the judge that the prefix �Al�, if that is what I can call it, is a reference to the familiar or patronymic name. Its omission does not signify the use of a different name � an allegation that was made by the Entry Clearance Officer that he was using two different names.