On 28th October I wrote about our return from South Wales and said “Monday was taken up by something of which I’ll write about later but it certainly couldn’t be classified as a thing you go on holiday to do!”

Yesterday we received the result of what had taken up that Monday – Essy’s Mum has been granted a visa to visit us! She had made an application for a visa for 2 weeks back in May hoping to come over in June for a fortnight. The Home Office denied her a family visit visa so she appealed the decision to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and I represented her. The case was heard by Judge Crayshaw and as with all immigration appeal cases you do not know the result immediately but have to wait for the written determination. This was my second time before an Immigration and Asylum Tribunal, the first time was in January 2008 which I wrote about here.

Instead of the intended summer visit it now looks like she’ll be spending Christmas in the UK.