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Husien to remain in the UK
AFTER two months of painful campaigning and three weeks of an agonising wait following an appeal hearing, Afghanistan-born Husien Panahi has discovered he will not be forced to return to Afghanistan.
As reported elsewhere on this blog, Husien Panahi had discovered that his visa would not be renewed in May, and appealed the decision three weeks ago.
The appeal was successful and the Home Office have until tomorrow to appeal against the decision, although it is unclear whether or not they will.
I am not going to turn this party political, but just to add my “two cents” worth here.
Quite often the Government (no matter which Party is in at the time as I am referring to the Civil Servants working for them, rather than the elected officials) go after people who play it by the book to meet the Government’s (the elected officials’) targets rather than hunt down those who have no right to be here in the first place.
Husien was lucky, and he had every right to celebrate. However, others are not so lucky, and are sent back to war-torn Countries purely because they have asked to stay, rather than stuck their proverbial fingers up at the Government and remained here illegally.
Doesn’t it make you proud to be British sometimes?
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Very good news on Husien! I am so very pleased about this decision. It shows that the Immigration Tribunal system still has value, which is great.
Not many people around here know of my background as far back as the time when I worked in the Immigration Dept. of the Home Office; and when my father was responsible for running the Appeals section within that outfit.
I learned a lot from that period, which informed my earlier comments on this particular issue that I wrote on your website, and for which I am grateful that you kindly allowed those comments to be published here.
With this decision, my faith in the Immigration Service of Britain has been restored. I am, aware that the Home Office can appeal against this decision, but I hope that on this occasion they will not do so.
I still believe that Husien should have been deported back to Afghanistan. After the recent war in the country, there is no substantial governmental framework in place. What Afghanistan needs now is young intelligent and capable people to help rebuild the war-torn country and reinstate as much a liberal democracy as possible – perhaps Mr Panahi can look upon his time spent in our free and liberal democracy and help set one up in his native Afghanistan.
And since he has been given a new visa, he will most likely stay indefinately in our country after any further education and leave Afghanistan without the talent and aforethought needed to rebuild itself.
Sam Jordan is wrong about deportation: its function is to remove those who have no right to remain in this country — not to pursue our foreign policy (whatever that happens to be) in other nations.
In this case, the granting of an extension of leave to remain in the UK — often incorrectly referred to as a “visa”, which it is not — should be governed by the extant Immigration Rules (IS81 in my day, plus various amendments introduced over the years) as applied to Husien’s case, not a British (or anyone else’s) political agenda.
Whether or not Husien decides one day to return to Afghanistan, either temporarily or permanently, will be his own choice, without any manipulation or other interference from the British authorities — and rightly so.
The latest news is that the Home Office hasn’t appealed against this ruling within the permitted time (which has now expired) so Husien’s situation now seems to be permanent.
This makes the whole business look even more likely to be merely a case of target-chasing, rather than doing what we did in the Immigration Department in my days there — evaluating applications on merit, backed up by solid facts. It was clearly a much different Ministry back then…