asked Her Majesty's Government:

Why the Immigration Tribunal Service did not deliver to the Home Office the appeal submission in the name of Nino Trollope in the case of the visa application for entry into the United Kingdom from Mrs Anna Zurabishvili. [HL2957]

When an appeal against refusal of entry into the United Kingdom is lodged with the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (as opposed to being lodged with the embassy), the tribunal serves a copy on the embassy that dealt with the visa application, which is then responsible for instructing the Home Office presenting officers unit in the UK. The AIT served a copy of the appeal for Mrs Anna Zurabishvili on the British embassy, Tbilisi on 6 July 2007 and sent a duplicate copy by fax at the embassy's request on 22 November 2007.