'Serious flaws' in UK immigration system, Law Society warns
Bad immigration decisions are having a "devastating" effect on families and businesses and undermining the rule of law, solicitors have warned.
Anine Sutherland, who fought a three-year battle with the Home Office to assert her right to stay in the UK, said she was "treated like a criminal" by officials at her first tribunal hearing.
My application was based on my teaching qualification, ...
Ms Sutherland, who moved to the UK from South Africa as working holidaymaker 16 years ago and then qualified as a teacher, first applied for indefinite leave to remain in March 2015.
Her application was rejected because of a Home Office error but it took two appeals and the threat of a judicial review before she was finally granted the immigration status she was always entitled to.
