Somalian woman with no right to live in the UK must be given a council house, according to EU judges

Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Nimco Hassan Ibrahim, who has 4 children, was told she contingency be since a legislature chateau obecause she was once tied together to a Danish adult who quickly worked in Britain.

A outcome in Luxembourg pronounced relatives caring for the young kids of displaced person workers, and proprietor in EU countries are lonesome underneath EU manners on leisure of transformation - together with those who cannot await themselves.

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Ms Ibrahim, a Somali inhabitant who distant from her Danish father and is wholly contingent on UK gratification payments, was primarily incited down for housing good - a preference that she afterwards appealed.

Ms Ibrahim, who is right away vital in proxy place to live in Harrow, told the Daily Mail: "I merit to be since a correct house. This one is as well small for all of us.

"I don"t think it"s satisfactory that the legislature has put us up in proxy accommodation. All these threats of eviction have done me feel really ill. The law says that I can get a improved chateau so I"m seeking brazen to a improved life."

Ms Ibrahim arrived in the UK in 2003 to stick on her husband, spoken in justice as Mr Yusuf.

The integrate have 4 young kids of Danish nationality, the fourth of whom was innate in the UK. Two are in UK state schools.

After operative in the UK for five months, Mr Yusuf claimed inability benefit, and left the nation after being spoken fit for work in Mar 2004. He afterwards "ceased to infer the conditions for official residence" in the UK, pronounced the judgment.

Ms Ibrahim remained in the UK, distant from her husband, and, pronounced the court, "was never self-sufficient, and depends wholly on amicable assistance".

"She does not have extensive illness word cover and relies on the National Health Service," the visualisation added.

Her focus for housing good for herself and her young kids was deserted on the belligerent that usually people with a right of chateau underneath EU law could apply, and conjunction she not Mr Yusuf were by afterwards deliberate proprietor in the UK underneath EU law.

Today"s visualisation said: "A primogenitor caring for the kid of a displaced person workman who is in preparation in the host Member State has a right of chateau in that State.

"That right is not redeeming on the primogenitor carrying enough resources not to turn a weight on the amicable good system."

EU manners contend that members of the family of a displaced person workman who is a inhabitant of one EU nation and in use in an additional have residency rights with that worker, whatever their nationality - a right that continues even if the displaced person workman no longer lives or functions there.

The Home Office pronounced it was study the intensity stroke of the visualisation this afternoon.

A UK Border Agency orator said: "We are unhappy with today"s ruling. We will right away cruise closely the European Court judgments and their implications."

Harrow Council, the internal management to that Ms Ibrahim practical for housing benefit, slammed the outcome as a intensity "floodgates judgment" opening the approach for state await for people who had put zero in to the country.

Councillor Barry Macleod-Cullinane said: "We are right away saying a European Court last British immigration policy."

He said: "We are really endangered with this outcome, as it appears to settle a vital new authorised fashion over good claims.

"Harrow Council is study the full implications of the ruling, but it could well infer to be a floodgates visualisation in that people who have not nonetheless contributed to this nation or who do not have the equates to to means themselves can right away find evident assistance from state gratification services."