Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts United Kingdom Supreme Court

Date: 02/22/2017

Subject: The decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court, deems compatible with the right to family life the doctrine of "insurmountable obstacles", according to which the Secretary of State may refuse, unless there are "insurmountable" reasons, a permit of stay to the foreign partner of an English national, when their relationship started before and the foreign partner was not regularly residing in the United Kingdom

Parties: R (on the application of Agyarko) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) R (on the application of Ikuga) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy

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