So allegedly a judge has ruled an Albanian criminal has the right to stay in the UK because of his 10 year old son’s dislike of foreign food, in particular chicken nuggets!
The son does not speak any English and apparently does not officially have any special needs.
I have no words.
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Chicken nuggets……..strugglin g to believe this!
(66 Posts) Without a direct link to the judge's ruling I'm going to no more believe this than I believe the 'host story' being discussed on Chat 
Here’s a report from the DM Maizie. Other newspapers are reporting this case, but some are behind paywalls. It appears that the case is going to be heard again by a different judge. It is, unfortunately, true that the tribunal was told that the child doesn’t like the type of chicken nuggets available in Albania. There are other points made about the child but his father is an illegal immigrant and a criminal. It beggars belief. I suspect a human rights lawyer is behind this nonsense,
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14378963/Albanian-criminals-deportation-UK-halted-amid-judges-concerns-son-10-year-old-said-didnt-like-chicken-nuggets-outside-Britain.html
The DM is not a direct link to the Judge's actual judgement.
I don't believe the DM, either.
It appeared in the Times this morning.
I'm moving into Buckingham Palace :
I only like living in beautiful ,old historic buildings with lots of servants to wait on me hand and foot .
I also feel upset if I can't wear expensive designer clothes and attend prestigious events having arrived there in a chauffeur driven car .
Not being able to wear tiaras is also disturbing my mental stability .
Esmay
I'm moving into Buckingham Palace :
I only like living in beautiful ,old historic buildings with lots of servants to wait on me hand and foot .
I also feel upset if I can't wear expensive designer clothes and attend prestigious events having arrived there in a chauffeur driven car .
Not being able to wear tiaras is also disturbing my mental stability .
Oh, you as well. Maybe we can meet up in the throne room with our crowns on 👑👑👑👑
I thought as much, this is not quite the whole story. The government has appealed a tribunal ruling (which none of you would have known about had the government not started an appeal against it) in which it was noted that the child, food sensitivities, sensory issues and difficulties communicating emotions, didn't like 'foreign nuggets'.
The story appears to have been taken from the government's submission to the appeal tribunal. Without seeing the original tribunal ruling it is impossible to know if there was more to the decision than just the chicken nuggets...
The government opened the appeal in August last year, so it's not exactly news, and the appeal is ongoing. No decision has been taken.
www.thenational.scot/news/national/24921917.deportation-paused-sons-aversion-chicken-nuggets/
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Then Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered he should be deported to Albania and stripped of his UK citizenship, but Disha appealed and was backed by a judge at an immigration tribunal.
The judge ruled that deportation would be unfair to his son – known 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.
C was said to have 'sensory difficulties' with some clothing, such as socks, and certain types of food which meant he would 'refuse to do anything'.*
The pice above, taken from DM, is a slightly less screwed version of the reasons.
Piece !!
Where is the child's mother in all this?
TBH, I think the child is going to have problems wherever he lives. So it might just as well be Albania as the UK.
But without the original tribunal ruling it's impossible to judge
Can't they deal with the child's food preferences and source alternative materials for his clothes in Albania? My DGS had similar issues, it took effort on the parents' part to get him to do things, but with love and perseverance he is doing fine now.
MaizieD
Where is the child's mother in all this?
TBH, I think the child is going to have problems wherever he lives. So it might just as well be Albania as the UK.
But without the original tribunal ruling it's impossible to judge
Well said.
Chicken nuggets or any one particular food are not essential for survival.
Is there a law in Albania that a particular type of socks must be worn?
Is there a law in Albania that a particular type of socks must be worn?
There's an M & S online website for Albania. I can advise them which socks my DGS wears to school for them to put in an order from there.
Might be helpful.......
What are your delivery options?
EXPRESS TRACKED DELIVERY: 3-4 working days : ALEK 2500
or free when you spend over ALEK 20,000
I suppose the piece was written to highlight how difficult it is to deport anyone under the current laws.
There have been many cases like this where deportation has been overturned for a ridiculous reason. In one instance, the failed asylum seeker was allowed to stay because he had a cat. Beggars belief.
Sarnia, it is completely untrue that someone was granted asylum because he had a cat.
He was given leave to remain because he had a partner, a child, and a job offer.
Perhaps unwisely, the judge joked that his cat would be happy to staying GB .
Reported by a newspaper as " stayed because of his cat " - a lie, of course, but now widely referred to as true. Shame on that journalism.
Sarnia
There have been many cases like this where deportation has been overturned for a ridiculous reason. In one instance, the failed asylum seeker was allowed to stay because he had a cat. Beggars belief.
Maybe “beggars belief” because it’s untrue? 
But this is MISLEADING reporting designed to anger and alarm. The chap appealed his deportation - citing that his son had various problems. The only one of these actually put before the court was his 'sensitivity' to chicken nuggets as made in his country. THE JUDGE FOUND THIS TRIVIAL AND THREW OUT THE APPEAL.
Not so, sandelf. The judge at the tribunal who heard the man’s case said it would be unduly harsh to deport the child to Albania along with his father. His dislike of foreign chicken nuggets featured. The government has appealed that decision, the upper tribunal agreed with the government’s view that sending the child to Albania would not be unduly harsh and he has referred the case back for a new hearing.
You can read it here including the rationale for stay or go decisions:
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-2024-004546
It appears that the original decision was based on evidence from a trainee educational psychologist.
There doesn't appear to be any reason why A, B, and C - Klevis Disha's partner and two children [C is the child at the centre of the controvery] could not go to live in Albania or any reason why, if Disha was expelled and A, B and C stayed, A could not cope without him.
Point 31. Were C to remain in the UK, we cannot see how any reasonable judge could find that A, who is found by the Judge at [37] to be “robust and capable” would be incapable of caring for C without the appellant or that it would be unduly harshness for her to do so.
Evidently, she coped when Disha was serving a two year jail sentence.
Cossy -
I'll meet you every day for a cream tea -perhaps in one of the libraries .
Perhaps cocktails - later ?
I don't want to argue over the emerald tiaras -I prefer the Cambridge or the Greville ,but I'm willing to lend them to you .
I suspect, SilverBrook that separating the family might trigger the 'right to a family life' clause.
Presumably the tribunal judge is paid handsomely from the public purse.
How do they sleep at night? Shameful.
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