The Court of Appeal has upheld the Minister for Justiceâs refusal of a residency card for a Pakistani man living here with his UK citizen brother.
The three-judge court this week allowed an appeal by the Minister against a High Court judgment of September 2019 quashing the refusal.
Fahad Abbas (33) sought a residency card on the basis he was a âpermitted family memberâ of his brother, Farrukh Abbas (39), as defined under Article 2 of the EC free movement of persons regulations of 2015.
Farrukh lived in the UK from 2004 to 2016 when he became a naturalised UK citizen. He said he came to Ireland in late 2016 to set up a waste and cleaning services company but does not actively work for that company because he is busy working with Circle K and Deliveroo.