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For the Appellant: Mr A Balancy, Counsel, instructed by Forward & Yussuf Solicitors
This is the Appellant's appeal against the decision of Judge Robinson made following a hearing at Hatton Cross on 14 th May 2013.
The Appellant is a citizen of Jamaica, born on 8 th September 1974. She applied for leave to come to the UK as a the spouse of Norman Rhoden but was refused entry clearance on 24 th February 2012 on the grounds that the Entry Clearance Officer was not satisfied that the marriage was subsisting, nor that the accommodation would be adequate, nor that the maintenance requirements of the Rules could be met.
The judge heard oral evidence from the Sponsor. The couple had married in October 2004. He had been married before, in 1979, and had two children from that marriage. However, since the marriage he had had a child with a former girlfriend who was born in 2006.
The judge recorded that the Sponsor said that he and his wife spoke about four times a week on the telephone and that he had visited her in Jamaica. There was also evidence of money transfers.
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