IAT This case is reported on the following points:
a) the approach to be taken to ‘country expert’ evidence (see 4 and 9);
b) the methodology of the ‘Ethnologue’ web-site, and the weight to be given to untested assertions of language skills (see 11);
c) the meaning of ‘race’ in the Refugee Convention (see 14-15);
d) techniques of decision-writing (see 17); and
e) the approach to be taken to Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice (see 19).
It is not reported on the following points:
f) what is to be expected of persons claiming to be from Burundi by way of language skills (for which see SJ [2005] UKAIT 00134, explaining Rusiga [2005] EWCA Civ 407; or
g) what is the current situation for Hutus on return to Burundi, and in particular to the Buyenzi area of greater Bujumbura (for which see AM [2005] UKAIT 00123, confirming SS (Burundi) CG [2004] UKIAT 00290).
[2005] UKAIT 00172
Bailii
England and Wales
Immigration
Updated: 21 December 2021; Ref: scu.237611