Farhan Asghar

I have expertise in all aspects of immigration work for both private individuals and businesses. I have considerable experience in working with vulnerable clients, including clients who lack the capacity to give evidence or conduct proceedings. My practice covers Points Based System applications, EU free movement legislation, immigration detention, deportation, appeals, illegal working and British citizenship.

My diverse public law and human rights practice covers police, prisons, immigration, EU Law and the ECHR. I am regularly instructed to draft pleadings for judicial review claims and applications for injunctions preventing removal.

Notable cases

RFM, N M, I B M (A MINOR) V SSHD  HU/12528/2019 – successful appeal to the Upper Tribunal concerning the application of MK V SSHD  [2017] EWHC 1365 (Admin), where the court found a child born to Indian national parents, who had not been registered with the Indian High Commission, was stateless and therefore entitled to leave to remain with reference to paragraph 276ADE of the Immigration Rules.

The Queen on the application of X and others v SSHD JR/6956/2017- The case involved very novel points of law with potentially wide-ranging implications in the field. The Upper Tribunal was asked to declare whether the SSHD has an implied power to delay decision making, for an unspecified period of time, where an applicant is under investigation for alleged offences by HMRC, even where there is no published guidance on the matter.

SS v HP QB-2020-002502 - Instructed in respect of a professional negligence claim against an immigration advisor.

R (on the application of RH) v Secretary of State for Justice CO/1757/2020- Instructed by a prisoner asking for early and compassionate release from prison, due to his various underlying health conditions, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The client was eventually released early from prison on special licence.