A young Nigerian woman who has lived here for five years was yesterday refused leave by the High Court to bring proceedings aimed at preventing her deportation.
Kemi Adesete, who sat the Leaving Certificate here in 2009, had sought permission to challenge an order for her deportation made by the Minister for Justice last year.
Ms Adesete applied for asylum in 2008 but her application was refused. She claimed her mother died in childbirth, that she did not know who her father was and that she had lived in Nigeria with her grandparents until she was 15 years old.
Mr Justice John Cooke said he was satisfied no stateable case could be made that the Minister had erred, or reached an unreasonable conclusion, when he decided the circumstances in which Ms Adesete lived with her aunt did not amount to “family life”.
The description given to the Minister was not of a settled household in which she was established as a member independent of her pursuit of an asylum claim and her attempt to make a better life as a migrant.