Cricket-playing student at the centre of new human rights row

[Jazzy]

Abdullah Munawar is an intelligent, hard-working and courteous 23-year-old trainee accountant.



But when judges considered his application to remain in Britain after completing a three-year degree course, they did not base their decision on what contribution he might make to this country.



Instead, their ruling that he can stay in the UK hinged on his cricket hobby and the friendships he has made here in the three years since arriving from his middle-class home in Bangladesh.



The case of the cricketing student now takes its place in the annals of unusual immigration decisions - alongside the “Bolivian cat man”, first exposed in these pages two years ago, who sparked a Cabinet rift at the 2011 Conservative conference.



But the real question raised by his legal victory is how it might be applied to other people in the future, and whether it will undermine the Coalition’s commitment to cut immigration from the profligate levels seen under Labour.



I have analysed hundreds, if not thousands, of immigration cases for our End the Human Rights Farce campaign, and this case made among the thinnest arguments we have yet seen.



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Question: Do you think he should have been allowed to stay in the UK? Why or why not.