A Pakistani asylum seeker, who was jailed for using a sham marriage with a schoolgirl to gain British citizenship, has remarried her again in a fresh attempt to live in the UK.
Nasir Khalil, 48, was imprisoned nine years ago after he duped a Slovakian 16-year-old girl into travelling to Britain for a Muslim wedding ceremony, known as Nikah.
The pair first wed in November 2013, after the girl had been given indefinite leave to remain in Britain with their children.
The man, who was living in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, had children with the young girl both before and after he served 15 months in prison.
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At his trial, the jury found that he was part of a "mail order" gang illegally buying women living in the EU.
Their new spouses would then claim their husbands had a legal right to remain in Britain.
The convicted fraudster was deported back to Pakistan in 2019, a year after he married the Slovakian woman.
The girl, who travelled to Britain just four days after she turned 16, was 23 by the time Khalil was deported.
A Pakistani asylum seeker, who was jailed for using a sham marriage with a schoolgirl to gain British citizenship, has remarried her again in a fresh attempt to live in the UK
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She cannot be identified due to legal reasons.
Khalil's lawyers are now applying to Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, for a fresh family visa to return to the UK, the Telegraph reports.
The latest ruling in the 13-year campaign to gain asylum shows that immigration judges accept his claim to be in a "durable… loving and stable relationship" with the woman who is now his visa sponsor, despite her being 20 years his junior and a “child victim” of his crime.
His lawyers claimed he was entitled to a “residence card … as the spouse of an European Economic Area national exercising EU treaty rights”.
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Khalil's lawyers are now applying to Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, for a fresh family visa to return to the UK
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Judges rejected Khalil's claims, forcing him to apply for a family card.
Despite arriving in Britain on a short-term visa, the Pakasani man remained after his visa expired.
His trial judge added that the girl “received little or no instruction before the conversion to Islam” and the ceremony was "not conducted in a language she understood".
After initially attempting to avoid deportation by claiming he was in "fear of the Taliban in Pakistan" in 2016.
A year later, he tried to use EU laws to return to the UK, but was denied by Priti Patel
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The fraudster's appeals lasted for two years before he was eventually returned to his homeland in 2019.
A year later, he tried to use EU laws to return to the UK but was denied by Priti Patel, the Home Secretary at the time, who argued that his "character and conduct" were not "conducive to the public good" because he had tried to "undermine and circumvent" immigration laws.
After being granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK, his wife travelled to Pakistan in 2020 to marry him again.
The latest ruling said his wife "was a victim" of Khalil’s “criminal offending”.
Nasir Khalil, 48, was imprisoned nine years ago after he duped a Slovakian 16-year-old girl into travelling to Britain for a Muslim wedding ceremony
| GETTYIt added: "She met the appellant when she was 15 and they were married by an Islamic religious ceremony shortly after she turned 16.
"The sentencing judge concluded that the jury found the appellant engaged in the religious ceremony solely to secure status in this country and consequently the sponsor was deceived when entering into the marriage.”
A spokesman for BS Solicitors, which took on Khalil’s case more recently, told the Telegraph that an application for a family visa based upon his recent “legitimate” marriage is currently before the Home Secretary.
GB News has approached the Home Office for comment.
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