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The appellant before the Upper Tribunal is the Entry Clearance Officer in Shanghai. I shall refer to Mrs Zhao as �the claimant� herein.
The claimant is a citizen of the People�s Republic of China. Her husband, Mr Zhang (the sponsor) lives in the United Kingdom as the holder of a Tier 2 inter-company transfer migrant visa, with leave initially conferred until 6 July 2014, but which has recently been extended so as to be conferred until 9 July 2016. Mr Zhang is also a citizen of China.
The claimant applied to join her husband in the United Kingdom. Her initial application was refused on 8 November 2012 in a decision stating as follows:
I am satisfied that you employed deception in your previous application. Given this your current application falls to be refused under paragraph 320(7B) of the Immigration Rules. Any future applications will also be automatically refused, for the same reason, until 30/11/21 � a ten year period after the previous refusal in which deception was used...Given that your application has been refused under the general grounds for refusal I am therefore satisfied that you also fall to be refused under paragraph 319C (a) of the Immigration Rules.�
The claimant then made a further application for entry clearance as a PBS Tier 2 long-term staff partner. This application was refused on 13 March 2013, which is the decision at the heart of the instant appeal, for the following reasons:
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