A criminal from Albania has been allowed to remain in Britain due to his son's refusal to eat foreign chicken nuggets.
Klevis Disha, 39, came to the UK illegally in February 2001, when he was a 15-year-old unaccompanied child.
When he entered the country, he used a fake name and falsely claimed to have been born in the former Yugoslavia.
While his asylum claim was rejected, he secured UK citizenship in 2007 after being granted exceptional leave to remain, and then indefinite leave to remain.
He met his partner in 2006, another Albanian who had gained UK citizenship, with whom he had two daughters and a son. In September 2017, Disha was jailed for two years after being caught with £250,000 cash, known to be the proceeds of crime.
Then Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered he should be deported to Albania and stripped the 39-year-old of his UK citizenship as it had been acquired through deception.
However, Disha appealed and was backed by a judge at a lower-tier immigration tribunal. The judge ruled that deportation would be unfair to his son, named only as C, for him to remain in the UK and be separated from his father, or to be forced to go with him to Albania.
The case was focused on C’s "additional" needs, which were supported only by evidence from a trainee educational psychologist for whom, the court noted, no CV had been supplied, as well as evidence from a neighbour and a family friend.
The court was told there was no formal diagnosis of special educational needs for the boy, but he did have an educational plan to deal with his "emotional regulation, independence; reading and writing".
An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be "unduly harsh" for C to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food. The sole example provided to the court was his distaste for the "type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad."
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Klevis Disha, 39, came to the UK illegally in February 2001, when he was a 15-year-old unaccompanied child.
When he entered the country, he used a fake name and falsely claimed to have been born in the former Yugoslavia.
While his asylum claim was rejected, he secured UK citizenship in 2007 after being granted exceptional leave to remain, and then indefinite leave to remain.
He met his partner in 2006, another Albanian who had gained UK citizenship, with whom he had two daughters and a son. In September 2017, Disha was jailed for two years after being caught with £250,000 cash, known to be the proceeds of crime.
Then Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered he should be deported to Albania and stripped the 39-year-old of his UK citizenship as it had been acquired through deception.
However, Disha appealed and was backed by a judge at a lower-tier immigration tribunal. The judge ruled that deportation would be unfair to his son, named only as C, for him to remain in the UK and be separated from his father, or to be forced to go with him to Albania.
The case was focused on C’s "additional" needs, which were supported only by evidence from a trainee educational psychologist for whom, the court noted, no CV had been supplied, as well as evidence from a neighbour and a family friend.
The court was told there was no formal diagnosis of special educational needs for the boy, but he did have an educational plan to deal with his "emotional regulation, independence; reading and writing".
An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be "unduly harsh" for C to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food. The sole example provided to the court was his distaste for the "type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad."
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