MO (Long residence rule-public interest proviso) Ghana [2007] UKIAT 00014, the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) examined the provisions of the Immigration Rule on long residence, and confirmed that an immigration judge had wide discretion in deciding whether the public interest justified a grant of settlement. MO was an overstayer; he had stayed in the UK after leave had run out. He had worked in the UK using a false identity.
