Legacy case for a refugee with temporary leave to remain

Hello!

I would greatly appreciate if you could help me to find an answer to one very important question.
I have a friend (single mom) who arrived to the UK in August 2002. She claimed asylum. The whole procedure dragged for several years, rules kept changing, until she was recognized as a refugee in November, 2007! She was granted a Temporary Leave for 5 years. Don't remember the exact name but I'm sure you know what exact status I'm talking about. At about the same time (2007) people started to have their cases reviewed by the legacy directorate and they got ILR (Indefinite Leave to Remain) if successful. So it happened that my friend was too late to get the ILR with the refugee status and too early to do it under the legacy cases review.
My questions is: Can she apply for the legacy case review now in order to obtain the ILR? She is a single mother. Kid is 12 and is now in his 7th year of British schooling. She did get the refugee status but a temporary one which means that her case is still in the system...legacy?!?
I mean the lady and her kid have been here for over 6 years now and do deserve to have a permanent status and not something that is going to be reviewed in 4 years!
Really looking to hear from you.

Regards
Josh

indigokid wrote:Hello!

I would greatly appreciate if you could help me to find an answer to one very important question.
I have a friend (single mom) who arrived to the UK in August 2002. She claimed asylum. The whole procedure dragged for several years, rules kept changing, until she was recognized as a refugee in November, 2007! She was granted a Temporary Leave for 5 years. Don't remember the exact name but I'm sure you know what exact status I'm talking about. At about the same time (2007) people started to have their cases reviewed by the legacy directorate and they got ILR (Indefinite Leave to Remain) if successful. So it happened that my friend was too late to get the ILR with the refugee status and too early to do it under the legacy cases review.
My questions is: Can she apply for the legacy case review now in order to obtain the ILR? She is a single mother. Kid is 12 and is now in his 7th year of British schooling. She did get the refugee status but a temporary one which means that her case is still in the system...legacy?!?
I mean the lady and her kid have been here for over 6 years now and do deserve to have a permanent status and not something that is going to be reviewed in 4 years!
Really looking to hear from you.

Regards
Josh

Legacy cases are failed asylum seekers whose cases are being reviewed so they can either be granted ILR or removed from the country, so no, your friend cannot ask for a legacy case review. She has been granted 5 years LTR as a refugee because that is what the UK decided to grant to refugees effective August 2005 in case things changed for the better in the countries refugees were fleeing from. You cannot apply to be a legacy case once you've been granted refugee status.

Thank you so much for the information!