IA180892014

The Appellant entered the United Kingdom with leave as a Tier 4 (General) Student on 2 nd October 2010 valid until 30 th January 2012. On 13 th March 2012 he was granted further leave to remain this time as a Tier 1 (Post-Study Work) Migrant valid until 13 th March 2014. On 13 th March 2014 before his last leave was due to expire he made the present application for leave to remain as a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Migrant the refusal of which has given rise to these proceedings.

The Appellant�s application was that he and another citizen of Pakistan Mr Shoaib Irfan operated a business in the United Kingdom called Zash Solutions Ltd (�Zash�). Zash described itself as a company of IT and telecom specialists providing services to customers.

In order to succeed the Appellant and his team member had to be able to score 75 points under Appendix A for Attributes and provide the specified documents. This was broken up into three parts, 25 points for access to at least �50,000 by way of funds, 25 points for the funds to be held in a regulated financial institution(s) and 25 points for the funds to be disposable in the United Kingdom. The Appellant produced the following evidence in support of his application:

(i) a bank statement from Barclays dated 13 th March 2014 in the name of Mrs Sumaira Manzoor showing a balance of �42,327.32;

(ii) a declaration from Mrs Manzoor dated 11 th March 2014 stating that she had �40,000 in her account and would make it available to Mr Irfan and the Appellant and/or Zash. The money would remain available to them until it was transferred to them and/or their business.