UI2022005244 & UI2022005245

Pursuant to rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, [the appellants] ( and/or any member of their family, expert, witness or other person the Tribunal considers should not be identified ) is granted anonymity.

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/or other person ). Failure to comply with this order could amount to a contempt of court .

             By the decision of Upper Tribunal Judge Perkins issued 28.1.23, the sibling appellants and nationals of Gambia have been granted permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal (Judge Caswell) promulgated 2.8.22 dismissing their linked appeals against the respondent's decision of 28.7.21 to refuse their applications for Entry Clearance to settle in the UK as the children of their sponsoring mother, PG, a British national.

             The appellants have different fathers but the same mother. When PG came to the UK as a spouse in 2010, the appellants were left with their maternal grandmother, until the latter's death in 2020. They then lived with a family friend, AF. It is said that their father has played no role in the lives of the appellants. It is relevant to the claim that the conditions in which they live are said to be overcrowded and dire.

             In relation to the issue of sole responsibility, at [28] of the impugned decision, the judge found an absence of reliable evidence to show that the sponsor had been exercising sole responsibility for AB.