This is an application for judicial review by Mr Ali Ahmed Agha. The decision under challenge is that of the Entry Clearance Officer in Abu Dhabi who refused a visit visa on 6th September 2015. A pre-action Protocol letter was sent on 5th November 2015

And the appellant won. They had to issue him a standard visitor visa and pay about GBP 20k in costs

So they will avoid embarrassment at all costs, and that ECO is now a 'troublemaker'

@chx these are truly the best

I wonder what was the most someone went just to answer a question

@MarkMayo Do you want this on Expats:

@JonathanReez I saw you declined an off-topic flag hence why I am asking before migrating.

@JoErNanO I think it's on topic

although it sounds like a scam

Oh this is not a scam

this is far worse than a mere scam...

@chx Care to elaborate?

drug mule, what else? ya' all already figured it out

legit companies rarely if ever use us a person for courier, UPS/Fedex/etc does the job so much cheaper.

@JonathanReez This is clearly not WANTA, travel.stackexchange.com/questions/90529/…

@JonathanReez I'm mostly concerned about people pointing to canonicals that don't apply to the question being asked, and then asserting that the canonical should be expanded to cover the new case. This of course will lead to unwieldy canonicals. There was such a question in the last few weeks, though I don't remember what it was exactly, or why it was an exception.

Possibly too broad, it deserves a discussion and vote in any case, I am not sure it should be closed and it could certainly be salvageable

@Relaxed ??? That's the definition of WANTA!

I can name a dozen locations that fit his requirements

once it's edited by OP it will be reopened immediately

reopened, please salvage :)

@phoog there was one, related to Schengen visas for a flight between two countries during a transit

we've found an existing canonical for that one as well

but people suggested expanding the big "Schengen transit" canonical

@JonathanReez Oh right, I remember now, and I thought that the question concerned an intra-schengen leg of an external flight, but it almost certainly did not. Maybe it's a good idea to have a section listing exceptions, and, instead of discussing them in detail, linking to related canonical questions that cover the exception in more detail. For example, the situation with diplomatic and official passport holders in Schengen is truly complicated and affects few people.

If related canonicals are linked to one another, as they should be for ease of use, it would make maintenance easier in the event of a change.