Anjum, Regina (on The Application of) v Entry Clearance Officer, Islamabad (Entrepreneur – Business Expansion – Fairness Generally): UTIAC 16 Aug 2017

(i) A proposal by a Tier 1 Entrepreneur applicant who operates an existing business to use part of the prescribed minimum finance of pounds 200,000 to purchase a second business for the purpose of developing and expanding the existing enterprise is compatible with paragraph 245 of the Immigration Rules.
(ii) An immigration interview may be unfair, thereby rendering the resulting decision unlawful, where inflexible structural adherence to prepared questions excludes the spontaneity necessary to repeat or clarify obscure questions and/or to probe or elucidate answers given.

Citations:

[2017] UKUT 406 (IAC)

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Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Immigration

Updated: 02 April 2022; Ref: scu.601001