A Ghanaian tourist won the right to stay in Great -Britain after organizing a wedding for herself where she was never present.
Francisca Boateng won her immigration profession based on the fact that her 'proxy' wedding with a German in Great -Britain gave her the right to stay in the country.
The 42-year-old was on holiday in the UK in August 2018 when she met Fatao Sualihu before she returned to Ghana to separate from her husband.
Five months later she organized a proxy wedding with Mr. Sualihu in Kumasi, according to legal documents.
Proxy marriages – where none of the parties attend the ceremony – are legal in Ghana as at least one parent of one of the parties is present.
They are not legally in the UK, but British courts will recognize proxy marriages that have taken place in countries where they are valid in certain circumstances.
Mrs. Boateng arrived in the UK with her two children, but the new marriage broke a little more than a year later and the divorce procedure started in January 2022.
The Ghanaian then claimed the British residence under the post-brexit EU brick arrangement.
Francisca Boateng won her immigration profession based on the fact that her 'proxy' wedding with a German in Great -Britain gave her the right to stay in the country. Shown: the home office's head office
This is because her marriage lasted three years from the date of proxy marriage and her husband, as a German subject, were eligible for a fixed status.
The request was granted, despite the fact that the couple did not actually sign their marriage certificate as a civil ceremony three months after the Proxy -wedding – which would have brought them under the three -year requirement.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told The Telegraph, who reported the story for the first time: 'This entire scenario seems extremely weak.
'The courts are – wrongly – who take on increasingly broader definitions that allow people here without deep connections and that have not made meaningful contribution to the UK to stay permanent here.
'A new common wish approach is needed and we are currently developing that. The plan that we announced last week to change the rules to make it a lot harder to get unaccepted leave was only the first step in that process. '
It comes in the midst of widespread indignation in a series of cases where migrants have been given the right to stay in the UK in controversial circumstances.
This includes the decision to Family of Gaza refugees to come to the UK, despite the fact that they register a scheme for Ukrainians.
Keir Starmer replied that he agreed that the statement was 'wrong' and that the government looked at the law.
The mother, father and four children between the ages of seven and 18 years had applied for the family scheme in Ukraine with the request to join their brother who already lived in the UK – who they had not seen for 17 years.
Earlier this week, Kemi Badenoch made a decision to allow a family of Gaza refugees to enter the UK despite the fact that he has registered a scheme for Ukrainians
The case was initially rejected by the Home Office. But immigration judges have now destroyed that, based on the fact that human rights have been violated.
They concluded that the rights of the applicants in a family life was struck, although they would not have counted as a 'unity' before the last flare conflict in Gaza.
At PMQ's, the Tory leader demanded whether the government intended to appeal. Mrs Badenoch said that the UK had to place 'our interests' above the 'Evir'.
“This is not what the schedule was designed for. This decision is completely wrong, “she said.
Sir Keir said the Home Office is looking at the 'Legal Loophole'. “I don't agree with the decision … It should be the parliament that makes the rules,” he said.
On Tuesday it turned out that a mother who arrived at a six -month visa in the UK, but had never delayed her deportation after she had claimed that her Caribbean house would be too hot for her new Latvian husband.
The Grenadian National Lynthia Calliste stuck in March 2018 with her son in Great -Britain, but remained illegal in the UK after her visitor visa had expired.
In Great Britain, the 35-year-old Calliste married the Latvian forklift driver Konstantins Vinakovs, who has a permanent fixed status.
Calliste then applied for a wedding visa – so that the home office would start an investigation to try to deport her.
But she is now fighting the UK from the United Kingdom by claiming that they divorce her from her husband, would violate Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights – the right to a family life.
When officials from the home office Calliste said that her husband could join her in Grenada, the mother's mother pushed back and said that it would cause too much hassle for her family.
She claimed that her husband 'would not be able to tolerate the kitchen in Grenada' and 'worry … the heat' of the tropical island would be too much for him, according to reports …
In the meantime, an Albanian criminal is partly allowed in Great Britain because his son has 'aversion' for foreign chicken nuggets.
An immigration ribunal ruled that it would be 'unnecessary hard' for the 10-year-old boy to be forced to go back with his father because of his sensory problems with different types of food.
The judge admitted the father's appeal against deportation as a violation of his right to a family life as a result.
Albanian Kervis Disha, 39, came to the UK illegally in February 2001 when he was a 15-year-old child.
He came in a false name and claimed to be born in the former Yugoslavia. His asylum claim was rejected, but he assured British citizenship in 2007 after he had been given exceptional leave to stay and then indefinite leave.
In 2017 he was imprisoned for two years after he was caught at £ 250,000 cash.
Then Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered that he had to be deported to Albania and his British citizenship had to be stripped, but Disha appealed and was supported by a judge in an immigration ribunal.
The judge ruled that deportation would be unfair towards his son – only known as C – to stay in the UK and to be separated from his father, or to be forced to go with him to Albania.
It was said that C has 'sensory difficulties' with some clothing, such as socks, and certain types of food, which meant that he would 'refuse to do something'.
