batleykhan wrote: My advice is to be honest and truthful when questioned. The judges are always pretty helpful, polite and courteous.
Don’t worry or be nervous. Be relaxed at all time. Normally 75% of cases that go to a hearing, visas are granted.
If you dress properly, speak honestly and elegantly, be professional in representing your facts, you should walk through 30/40 minutes of the process.
A few points from those that do the job so to speak
The above is true is some parts maybe not so much in others.
Be polite and dressing smart are good things. No matter what, you will be nervous, that can not be helped. Speak in the way you normally do, do not try to use fancy words as it does not aid your case. Worse still what you might think you are saying is not what you are actually saying.
Do not "expect your barrister to throw the book at UKBA" - it does not happen. They say much our friends at the Bar but rarely perform as well as they promise. Remember they have to give and take with the AIT & UKBA. They work in front of the same Judges & PO's most weeks making an enemy out of either does not get you very far in our business. There are some complete idiots as barristers out there, getting to the Bar is no guarantee of sanity or sensibility I can assure you.
About 50 to 60% of all immigration cases are won through appeal BUT that is not the case for settlement visa's it is slightly towards the low end of the average.
You do not get a decision on the day in most instances, sometimes if the UKBA case for refusal is clearly pants you will get the pleasure of the case being allowed on the day. In the majority of cases the decision is reserved. Fancy court speak for "I will give out the decision later" - e.g. in the determination.
Do take heart in the fact that if your case is strong and built on firm evidence you will succeed.
Wish you luck.
