IA265622013

The appellant before this Tribunal is the Secretary of State and for ease of reference she will be referred to as �the Secretary of State�. The respondent before this Tribunal is Ms Alselami. She will be referred to as �the claimant�.

On 10 June 2013 the Secretary of State made a decision to refuse the claimant�s application to vary her leave to remain in the United Kingdom. She further decided to remove the claimant by way of direction under Section 47 of the Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. The claimant appealed the decision to the First-tier Tribunal. It allowed the appeal in terms of Article 8 of the Convention and refused the appeal on immigration grounds. The Secretary of State appealed this decision and permission to appeal was granted by First-tier Tribunal Judge Keane.

The immigration history of the claimant is conveniently set out in paragraphs 3 to 7 of the First-tier Tribunal�s determination. These paragraphs are in the following terms:

� 3. The most recent immigration history of the Appellant begins in February 2008. However, the connection of her and her family with the UK goes back much further. She first arrived in the country in 1997 with her parents and her siblings. They are all nationals of Saudi Arabia. Her parents returned to Saudi Arabia in 2003 and the Appellant went with them and enrolled at a school in Saudi Arabia where she studied from 2003 until 2005. While studying in Saudi Arabia she met the man who is now her ex-husband, Mr Ryid Nassif.

The Appellant returned to the UK with her parents in 2005. She was 17 at that time.