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       Following a hearing at Field House on 18 June 2024 Upper Tribunal Judge Linsley set aside the decision of the First-tier Tribunal which allowed the Appellant's appeal against the decision of the Secretary of State to deprive him of his British citizenship on the basis it had been obtained fraudulently.
       A judicial transfer order has been made and the matter comes before me today for the purpose of substituting a decision to either allow or dismiss the appeal.
       The Appellant is a citizen of Albania born on 30 May 1973 who arrived in the UK and claimed asylum on 18 July 1999, claiming to be Myrteza Hilaj born on 30 May 1973 in Prush, Gjakove, a Kosovan national.
       During his asylum interview the Appellant was asked what nationality he was to which he answered "Kosovan". It was even put to him that he was Albanian and not Kosovan but he repeated the claim to be Kosovan.
       The Applicant claimed asylum on the ground that his home had been destroyed and he had no family in Kosovo. The Appellant signed the interview record stating this was an accurate record of his claim. Whilst the claim he had no family in Kosovo was likely to be correct, as he is Albanian, the rest of his assertions were not.
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