Phew, £8,000. ! That's a lot of money for an appeal that will likely fail! Take the advice of the guys on here, they all have experience of immigration - myself included. As Terpe says, unless those 7 reasons can be overcome, then he is wasting his time and money. Try to get your friend to join here, but whatever happens, he really must NOT send anything like that sort of money without checking out the appeals procedure for himself. If he does, he is throwing good money after bad, with little prospect of winning the appeal.