vinny wrote:The ECO does not ultimately determine who has a right of appeal.
However, I think s/he should have informed the you of your
rights, as standard procedure. Why do you understand that the embassy is not required to mentioned that an applicant may appeal under Human rights?
Hi
I read some home office guidance to posts, that they are not required to mention this residual rights.I am trying to located the original article but cant find it at the moment.Just back to this case it invloves a vistor application, which has been refused on basis that the ECO is not satisfied the applicant is a geniune visitor nor wil they return to country of orgin.The points raised the bank account presented has more funds than the declared income. No evidence of family ties in home country. However the bank account is not the applicants, Previous visit to uk was 6 years ago and circumstances may have changed. The applicant stated she does not hold a bank account however her income is deposited in her sons accounts one of which resides in home country.The account may show excess amounts of funds due to the funds belonging to her sons.They provided joint letter explaining that the funds were at their mothers disposal and some of those funds were belonging to their mother.The applicant stated she lived with her son in home country and he provided a letter to that affect including a letter from his employer.Furthermore applicants circumstances remain more or less the same from her previous sucessful vist and at that time she did not have a bank account in her name but provided her sons account with reasons.The ECO has not even read the application in my view since the refusal suggests that the account provided is in the applicants name which it is clearly not. The suggestion that her circumstances " May have changed from her last visit" is pure speculation. Also part 8 of appliaction stated the reasons of visit which was to meet with her son and disabled grandson age 4 , who she has never met and there is little possiabilty given the personal circumstances of her son and her grandsons medical condition that they will be in a position to travel to the applicants home country.This type of application would have been sucessful in previous appeal systen in my view.There would have not been any need to provide further information just a matter of rasing the issue before the judge that the applicant has provided all the information however the Eco has made a different assesment of facts and typically confused and ignored infomation provided.
Would you suggest a letter to Entry clearance manager raising those concerns and mentioning why the applicant feels there is a human rights argument? or should the applicant simply lodge the appeal rasing the issues?