Legacy Cases & Legal protocol

Hi everyone,

Firstly, apologies if you have seen a similar question before:

My partner has an asylum legacy case. January 2011 will be his 10th year in the UK.

I'd like to know whether the legal protocols being employed by our solicitor are correct?
Its not that mistrust the solictor i'm looking for a second opinion.
I feel like i'm having to constantly chase the solictor to do her job to chase up where we are in the system for having a response to my partners legacy case.

Is there a protocol?
Why don't the home office respond to letters with deadlines
Why can't we find out who at the home office is dealing with our case.

We have discussed the marriage option but this would a 2 year process and we would need to abandon the asylum case. So marriage at this stage is not an option. Also because both my partner and I would like to make sure we have enough finances to pursue marriage.

Any thoughts that you have about legal protocols and so on would be incredibly useful. My partner is concerned that if he keeps contacting the solicitor to chase up the case she will get annoyed. I do understand his perspective but She isn't doing the work for free we are paying her. I don't however know if she is doing her job properly.

We have had solicitors we have been with 2 years who have taken ridiculous amounts of money up to £3000 and more who have written one or two letters. The quality of the letters have been more than shabby - poorly written, spelling mistakes with names and incorrect DOBs or a lack of the case number mentioned.

Please always ask your solicitors for a copy of any correspondence. We have had to correct my partners name more than once at the reporting office.

I'd be grateful for any advice or legal experiences any of you have had in relation to legacy cases.?

Many thanks in advance.

*Azi*

Has your partner/solcitor submitted evidence to UKBA regarding your relationship? if so when?

What is happening with the asylum case? When was it refused? Has any new evidence been to submitted to UK about the asylum issue? If so when?

It is standard that the UKBA will ignore letters sent by solicitors and by individuals particularly in 'legacy' cases

You can find out which case resolution team your partner's case has been allocated to by following this link:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylu ... g-my-case/

You will not be told the casworker, just the team. And the chances are, unless the UKBA have written to your partner/his solicitor requesting information about this case, that the case has not been allocated to anyone yet.

Dear Greenie,

Many thanks for your response, please find the responses to your queries below:

1)Has your partner/solcitor submitted evidence to UKBA regarding your relationship? if so when?

She has written a letter explaining we are in a relationship but not cohabiting (which is accurate). She has specified that we are quite anxious for the case to be resolved so we can get on with our lives and get married.
She has written 3 chaser letters after this - none with any response.
She told them about our relationship less than a year ago.

I have in addition obtained 3 character references for myself which my partner filed along with reference letters, updated paperwork and so on at Liverpool in December 2010.
The purpose of the character references for myself were to prove that we have a legitimate relationship and were from reputable sources such as my employer, lecturer and a personal character reference from a long standing friend. Should the home office wish to check up on me they can. Also enclosed were my business card and contact details.

2) What is happening with the asylum case? When was it refused? Has any new evidence been to submitted to UK about the asylum issue? If so when?

We have been told by the solicitor that she hasn't heard anything, so we have no case status update. Never had one either.
He was refused I believe in 2004.
New evidence submitted December 2010.

Many thanks for the link, I have tried it before and have just tried it again but receive the following message:

Search results
No results found for reference number Rxxxxxx
Please check that the number above is correct. You must enter the full reference number in the search box.

Cheers

Azi