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Am I due a refund?

Post by Rockefeller » Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:47 pm

Hello everyone!
I hope someone here could be of an assistance. I initially made an FLR O application alongside my family which was refused but I appealed the decision and the Tribunal allowed my appeal. Whilst waiting for the decision to be implemented I completed 10 years lawful stay and varied my application to SET LR. I paid full application fees for SET LR as it took the UKVI ages to update the allowed appeal decisions onto their system. My SET LR was approved in July and my family only had their allowed appealed implemented in August. I wrote to UKVI requsting a refund for my FLR O application but they decline saying as my application was refused I'm not due a refund. However, I sent them another letter with a copy of their policy where it state that when an appeal is allowed the application becomes pending untill the UKVI makes a new decision.

I have not heard back from them for over 3 weeks and wondering if anyone have any knowledge or experience they could share with me.

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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by prem_singh123 » Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:52 pm

Hi I think UKVI is right in declining the refund. As your initial application was decided and refused. As far as copy of policy is concerned that refund is of appeal fees which is 140 pound. You will not get a refund for your initial application . I hope this is clear now.

Rockefeller wrote:Hello everyone!
I hope someone here could be of an assistance. I initially made an FLR O application alongside my family which was refused but I appealed the decision and the Tribunal allowed my appeal. Whilst waiting for the decision to be implemented I completed 10 years lawful stay and varied my application to SET LR. I paid full application fees for SET LR as it took the UKVI ages to update the allowed appeal decisions onto their system. My SET LR was approved in July and my family only had their allowed appealed implemented in August. I wrote to UKVI requsting a refund for my FLR O application but they decline saying as my application was refused I'm not due a refund. However, I sent them another letter with a copy of their policy where it state that when an appeal is allowed the application becomes pending untill the UKVI makes a new decision.

I have not heard back from them for over 3 weeks and wondering if anyone have any knowledge or experience they could share with me.

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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Rockefeller » Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:37 pm

Thank you Prem Singh for your reply.
Please can you read the page 36 of this document and give me your thoughts afterwards https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... .0_EXT.pdf

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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Zee ali » Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:25 pm

Rockefeller wrote:Thank you Prem Singh for your reply.
Please can you read the page 36 of this document and give me your thoughts afterwards https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... .0_EXT.pdf
Did home office Acknowledged u that your variation of application from flro to set lr is accepted?

if yes than u r entitled for flr o fees refund.

if HO accept set le as fresh application (which they should not) as u have pending application u need to follow up and tell them about the relevant policies about variation>
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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by prem_singh123 » Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:36 pm

I already read it long time before, you need to understand that your initial application case was decided by the HO and appeal allowed means that HO decision to refuse your application was wrong. You made a new application to vary but your initial application was already decided. Hope this is clear now. Page 36 explains variation of leave of application if it is not decided.

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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by greenvilla » Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:46 pm

I seconds Mr. Singh statement.
Thnx

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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Obie » Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:24 pm

If you appeal was allowed outrightly, then there is nothing to vary.

If it was allowed on the basis that the decision was not in accordance with the law, and it is outstanding waiting for a lawful decision, then you return to the default section 3C position.

I don't think a decision which has been looked at and decided by a judge, can be varied. A decision has been made, it is simply awaiting implementation.
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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Rockefeller » Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:11 am

Thank you everyone for your contributions.
The judge ruled that the UKVI decision was unlawful both under immigration rules and Article 8.
@Obie you stated that one can not vary an application that have been decided by a judge but the UKVI policy says

"Allowed appeals: unlawful decisions
Once an application has been refused it can no longer be varied. However, the migrant’s
leave is extended under section 3C (2)(a) if:
 they appeal against the decision, and
 it is found to be unlawful and returned to the Home Office to be remade.
In such circumstances, the application remains undecided as the original decision was
unlawful and had no effect. The application remains outstanding and may be varied until the
Home Office has made a fresh lawful decision."

You can read this on page 20 of the 3C and 3D policy by clicking https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... 2.0EXT.pdf

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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Obie » Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:01 am

That is precisely the point i made.

If the appeal is allowed and remitted to the Secretary of State tobe remade, you can vary.

If it is allowed without remital, and the judge made the decision him/her self and say, you are entitled to the document you applied for, then the application cannot be remade.
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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Rockefeller » Fri Aug 22, 2014 4:21 pm

Thanks Obie for your help.
Would you say in circumstances such as mine as described above the application was varied and may a refund is due or not?
Thanks

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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Obie » Fri Aug 22, 2014 4:38 pm

I don't know how your appeal was allowed, so it is hard to say.

Did the Judge decide to send case to UKBA again as decision was not in accordance with the law, and awaits a lawful decision, or was it simply allowed, and said you are entitled to the document you applied for.

If it is the later, then you cannot expect any refund as that chapter is closed in regards to that application, if it is the former, then you have a strong case for a refund.
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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Rockefeller » Fri Aug 22, 2014 5:07 pm

Thank you very much again Obie. The last two paragraphs of the determination simply say as follows:

(27) Therefore on the totality of the evidence before me, I find that the Appellants has discharged the burden of proof and the reasons given by the Respondent do not justify the refusal. Therefore the Respondent's decision is not in accordance with the law and the applicable immigration rules.
DECISION
(28) I allow the appeals.

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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Obie » Fri Aug 22, 2014 5:46 pm

Well there is nothing to vary.

The judge made a decision which was based on assessment of the evidence, matter is concluded and application is not outstanding before UKVI


Usually a Judge will say this.

"The decision to refuse the application is not in accordance with law, and remains outstanding before the respondent , awaiting a lawful decision"

If a judge states the above, then you can vary, as there is still an outstanding application awaiting a lawful decision. Until that application is decided and a lawful decision made, the application can be varied.

That is what the law provides.
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Re: Am I due a refund?

Post by Rockefeller » Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:04 pm

Thank you very much for your insights Obie.

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