Pakistani migrant who was deported after impregnating a 16-year-old schoolgirl and wedding her in a sham marriage applies for family visa to return to Britain

A Pakistani asylum seeker who was imprisoned for obtaining British citizenship by making a fake marriage with a young girl remarried the girl with a new offer to live in England.

Nine years ago, Nasir Khalil, 48, was jailed for persuading a Slovakian boy to travel to England for a Muslim wedding just four days after he turned 16.

The then 36-year-old Pakistani national had children with the teenage girl before and after his 15-month prison sentence, while he was living in Rochdale, Manchester.

Following the trial, the jury concluded that he was part of a ‘mail order’ ring that purchased women living in the European Union.

The fraudsters would then use the women to ‘defraud’ the Home Office by claiming that their new partners had the legal right to remain in the UK.

Halil was deported to his homeland in 2019, a year after he married the Slovakian woman, who was 23 at the time.

They married after she was given indefinite leave to stay in Britain with their children.

According to The Telegraph, his lawyers made a new application to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in order to return to the UK via a family visa.

Halil’s 13-year struggle came to light following a decision by the top court, the court of appeal for cases involving asylum seekers.

The Pakistani man used the legal system in various ways to try to stay on British shores.

Immigration judges and former Conservative Home Secretaries now agree with his claims that he was in a ‘loving and stable’ relationship.

Even though the woman who ‘sponsored’ his visa was twenty years his junior and was also the victim of crimes he committed in his childhood.

And the latest ruling means his name can be revealed, but the courts have ordered his wife’s identity to be kept secret.

In another surprising development from a legal perspective, Khalil’s lawyers claim that his wife is eligible for a residence card because she is a European Economic Area (EEA) citizen through EU treaty rights.

But the judge rejected that offer, meaning his legal representatives only had one more option: his pending application for a family visa.

Khalil first landed in Britain in 2012, allegedly to visit family in Rochdale, and although he was initially refused ‘entry clearance’, he was allowed to stay for a short time.

However, he did not leave the UK and ‘stayed’ beyond his allotted time.

He later said he divorced his wife in his native Pakistan before marrying the schoolgirl in November 2013 in an Islamic manner.

The judge hearing his case found that the Slovakian teenager had ‘little or no education’ before converting to Islam and that the wedding was held in a language he did not understand.

It later heard how Khalil tried to use the teenager to insist he had a legal right to remain in Britain, citing freedom of movement laws in the European Union.

When he was arrested the following year, he made another offer for an ‘extended family’ residence card because his teenage wife had given birth.

However, the application was rejected on two separate occasions because Halil did not provide the required ‘biometric information’.

He had previously opposed his deportation to Pakistan in 2016, claiming he was afraid of the ‘Taliban in Pakistan’.

BS Lawyers, who took on the case, told The Telegraph that his latest offer for a family visa was based on a new ‘legitimate’ marriage.

They also said that the application was made to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Shabana Mahmood.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs was contacted for opinion.