After legally entering the UK over a decade ago on a work permit dependant visa, our client created a new life for herself. She worked continuously since her arrival, paid her taxes and never claimed benefits from the state.

In 2015 her visa expired and she began having problems with her immigration status including a period of detention in an immigration detention centre- an experience that caused her a lot of trauma.

Our client had also started a family in the UK and is now the mother of a young child, who is a British citizen. She has also been in a relationship with her partner, a British citizen who runs his own business in the UK.

If our client had been made leave the UK, she would have been leaving behind her child and partner which would have been devastating for everyone involved. As she cared for her child all day while her partner ran his company, the child would have lost its only carer. She also could not bring them back to her home nation as they would have had no job, home or means to survive.