Minister entitled to find couple’s bid to live here abused free movement rights

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No evidence woman from Pakistan had lived in Co Louth from January to July 2016

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.

While a since closed restaurant here had confirmed it had offered work to the woman, that offer, which she had not taken up, represented she was here in June 2017 when she herself claimed she was here only for the first half of 2016. While the woman said the references to living in the UK and the number of bedrooms were incorrect “inadvertent slips”, the Minister considered those were slips revealing “the real truth”, that the application for the couple to live in Ireland involved an abuse of rights, the judge said.He was giving his reserved judgment on judicial review proceedings by the couple challenging the Minister’s refusal.

 

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