Court upholds Minister's decision to refuse couple's application to reside here

A High Court judge has upheld the Minister for Justice's refusal to allow a married Pakistani couple live here on grounds their application involved an abuse of the wife's free movement rights as an EU citizen.

The Minister had concluded in February 2018 the purpose of the couple's move to Ireland was to "artificially create" conditions that would allow the husband gain a derived right of residence in the UK.