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Pursuant to Rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 (SI2008/269) an Anonymity Order is made. Unless the Upper Tribunal or Court orders otherwise, no report of any proceedings or any form of publication thereof shall directly or indirectly identify the original Appellant. This prohibition applies to, amongst others, all parties.
I have anonymised the appellant's name because she is a minor. She was born in 2003 and is now 14.
The appellant is a citizen of Uganda. She has appealed against a decision dated 4 March 2015 refusing her application for entry clearance to join her aunt in the United Kingdom ('UK'). The SSHD did not accept that there are serious and compelling family or other considerations which would make the appellant's exclusion from the UK undesirable as required under para 297(i)(f) of the Immigration Rules. The SSHD also did not accept that the sponsor would be able to maintain the appellant without recourse to public funds under para 297(v).
The appellant was 12 (but nearly 13) at the date of decision. The appellant's aunt ('the sponsor') is the appellant's late mother's half-sister.
After hearing from the sponsor at a hearing, the First-tier Tribunal dismissed the appellant's appeal in a decision dated 12 August 2016. The First-tier Tribunal considered the appellant's case in detail but concluded that the requirements of 297(i)(f) are not met and the decision does not breach Article 8.
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