no right to appeal

[bless]

if the Home Office says that they refuse your application and say that you shoul return to your home country and that you have no right to appeal can you still appeal

[darlingnc]

uuh, isnt the answer in the question???

[buildersmate]

Right of appeal exists under certain circumstances. For example, applicants from certain countries and under certain personal circumstances. If one don't fit this (and the HO will have checked this) then one can't appeal.

[johnny37]

I think it means no right of appeal to the HO. There was a high profile case the other day where someone being treated for cancer was booted out. The HO said this was not an isolated case. I do not condone illegal immigrantion but does this not pose another question: does it contravene that persons right to appeal to a higher authority, the House of Lords or even the European Court of Human Rights? I'm talking about the right in law to appeal, not whether the case is valid. Perhaps someone with more legal knowledge can answer that.

[buildersmate]

Fair point, Johnny.
I believe applicants (for whatever the type of civil case) have FIRST to be granted leave to appeal to the higher authority. If they aren't, they can't. Otherwise the whole of the legal process would get clogged with vexacious claims from people with nothing to lose, supported by lawyers (with nothing to lose either, if their client is being funded from us taxpayers).
No doubt I'll be put right on this, if this is wrong.

[johnny37]

Sorry, BM. I did not mean my last sentence to refer to you! It was just a general statement.