I have been helping my friend - who has been continually resident in the UK for over 20 years and who has been granted indefinite leave to remain under the EU Settlement Scheme - apply for a visa for his wife - whom he married two years ago - to come and live with him in the UK.
We applied for an EEA Family permit and it was refused because we did not provide sufficient documentation. We re-applied and it was refused again - this time after he and his wife were both interviewed by phone - becasuse it was deemed to be a marriage of convenience, which it is not.
While the period for appeal has now expired, I wondered if anyone here could advise on appropriate next steps.
The reasons given for the refusal are in italics below and my comments follow each reason.
Not providing documentation to prove that my friend is residing in the UK as a qualified person by exercising Treaty rights in accordance with Regulation 6 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016.
We provided a letter from his employer which was acknowledged in the refusal letter and his indefinite leave to remain letter under the EU Settlement Scheme which was not ackowldged.
His wife did not confirm his correct date of birth.
Apparently, she got the month wrong by one month.
It is not credible that you would not know when you were first introduced, met up and exchanged phone numbers.
The only discrepancy between the answers they apparently gave that I can see from the refusal letter was that my friend said they exchanged telephone numbers the day after they first met while she said it was a week after, but this was in 2003.
It is not credible that you would not know who initiated the conversation.
From the explanation given in the refusal letter, I cannot see any discrepancy between their answers.
It is not credible that your sponsor would not know whether you had a traditional,
customary or religious marriage.
The answers they both apparently gave to the questions about their marriage do not seem to me to be inconsistent; in different ways they both seemed to say the same thing.
It is not credible that you would not know if either of you had friends or family in the UK.
She apparently said that she had friends who live in the UK, he apparently said that as far as he is aware she does not have any friends in the UK.
Thank you for any help you can give.
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