IA125492014

This is an appeal by the Secretary of State from the decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge Chamberlain to allow the Respondent's appeal against the refusal of his application for leave to remain on the basis of his relationship with a female in the UK and upon family and private life grounds.

For reasons of exposition and clarity I propose hereafter to refer to the parties according to their status in the First-tier Tribunal; that is to say, I shall refer to the Secretary of State as the Respondent and Mr S Ehtshamul Haq as the Appellant.

The Appellant is a citizen of Pakistan who was born on 5 th February 1977. He appealed to the First-tier Tribunal against a decision of the Respondent which was made on 21 st February 2014. The Secretary of Stats refused his application for leave to remain on various grounds. However, only one of these is relevant for present purposes. That reason can be found in paragraphs 10 and 11 of the Reasons for Refusal Letter, which is also dated 21 st February 2014. In view of its centrality to the Respondent's appeal to the Upper Tribunal, I will quote those paragraphs in full:

Your client has therefore provided false information in support of his claim to remain in the United Kingdom. Your client fails to satisfy the suitability requirements at S-LTR.2.2 and consequently fails to qualify for leave under Article 8 family and private life of the Immigration Rules.

The Judge of the First-tier Tribunal dealt with the issue of the false documents allegation at paragraphs 16 to 18: