The applicant appealed against refusal of her challenge to the regulations requiring certain standards of spoken English in foreign spouses seeking to come here to be with their settled or British Citizen spouse.
Held: The imposition of the requirement was a proportionate response.
Judges:
Maurice Kay VP, Toulson LJJ, Sir David Keene
Citations:
[2013] EWCA Civ 322, [2013] 3 All ER 778, [2014] 1 WLR 208, [2013] HRLR 28, [2013] INLR 613, [2013] Imm AR 1007, [2013] WLR(D) 139
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Appeal From – Chapti and Others, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for The Home Department and Others Admn 16-Dec-2011
Challenge to the amendments to paragraph 281 of the Immigration Rules requiring the foreign spouses and partners of British citizens or persons settled in the UK applying for what I shall refer to as ‘spouse visas’, that is for leave to enter the UK . .
Cited by:
Appeal from – Ali and Bibi, Regina (on The Applications of) v Secretary of State for The Home Department SC 18-Nov-2015
At the claimants alleged that the rules requiring a foreign spouse or partner of a British citizen or a person settled in this country to pass a test of competence in the English language before coming to live here were an unjustifiable interference . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Immigration, Human Rights
Updated: 17 November 2022; Ref: scu.472571
