PSA: If you’re an EU cit waiting weeks for an initial decision under EUSS, AND you’ve got convictions in UK or abroad, Home Office might be waiting till you visit abroad to exclude you from UK +
When you come back, you may be refused admission & told you have to appeal from abroad.
(If you’d never left, HO would probably have accepted you had a right to stay in UK while you appealed.) +
(If you’d never left, HO would probably have accepted you had a right to stay in UK while you appealed.) +
This approach may well be illegal - EU judgment in Yiadom said that when HO had delayed taking action for months, they couldn’t then demand EU cit left pending remedy.
But that won’t stop them trying. +
But that won’t stop them trying. +
So if this applies, you could:
- try to hurry Home Office up (but that might mean an early negative decision)
- apply under Data Protection Act for your file
- not go abroad
- get yourself a lawyer. // ENDS
- try to hurry Home Office up (but that might mean an early negative decision)
- apply under Data Protection Act for your file
- not go abroad
- get yourself a lawyer. // ENDS
