UI2023004755 & Ors

Pursuant to rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, the appellants and any member of their family, including the sponsor, are granted anonymity. This is because the sponsor has been recognised as a refugee by the respondent and the appellants have been recognised as refugees in Ethiopia, where they currently reside.

No-one shall publish or reveal any information, including the name or address of the appellants, likely to lead members of the public to identify the appellants and members of their family. Failure to comply with this order could amount to a contempt of court .

              These written reasons reflect the full oral decision and reasons which I gave at the end of the hearing.

              At §45 to 46, the Judge found that, bearing in mind the sponsor's limited financial means as he arrived in the UK aged 15 and was on Universal Credit, it was not plausible that he had sent money to the appellants. Even if he had sent some money this would not have been sufficient to pay for his family's rent bills and other living costs as well as to support himself. The sponsor had not given any details or evidence about what he received as income and what he sent to them.

              The Judge recorded an alternative claim of remittance via contacts, which were never sent to the same person, in case this put his family at risk. The Judge recorded that when asked how he knew if the money was received, the sponsor said he did not know (§49). The appellant's dispute that this was the sponsor's evidence.