UK Border Agency to Review Rejected Emigration Pleas

It now seems that the UK Border Agency has just recently announced its plans to review applications of emigrants whose pleas were refused solely on the fact that they failed to meet the financial requirements to enter into the country. This review, which will take place under all tiers of the point based system, is limited to those who unsuccessfully applied for entry from outside Britain between June 23 and July 22 of this year.

This review will include other cases as well. For example, it will include cases of those seeking extension from inside Britain on or before July 22. The review was announced just after the high court ruled in an emigration case that the maintenance funds assessment must be made in line with the emigration rules.

Right now the emigration rules only specify that the emigrant must hold the required level of funds on the day the application is made. This case, thus, drew the court's attention to the time period for which an applicant should show as having adequate funds for self and any dependents.

What the UK Border Agency was doing was requiring emigrants to show that they had enough money to cover a period of three months. They had to show that they had this money dated no more than one month prior to the date of submitting the application. On top of this, it was also necessary for the emigrant to make sure that their balance never fall below the required minimum at any time during this three month period.

This condition proved to be very difficult to meet for any applicant. After all, this means that they would have to show a balance in their bank account of about 3,000 to 5,600 pounds for three months. This money always had to be in there, so it was as if applicants could not touch this money.