Seerangan (appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (respondent)

Wednesday 15 January 2025

Appeal against the order of Mrs Justice Thornton made on 16 April 2024 which refused the application for judicial review after a substantive hearing which took place on 22 February 2024.

The appellant is a citizen of India born on 1994. He entered the UK on 3 October 2020 as a Tier 4 (General) student whose leave was valid until 30 January 2022. On 14 November 2022 the applicant’s representatives wrote to the Coronavirus Assurance Team at UKVI to apply for ‘exceptional assurance’ for 14 days for that he can regularize his stay and to avoid becoming an overstayer. On 16 November 2022 the respondent wrote to the applicant explaining that India had no reported travel restrictions, so he was granted a short term assurance until 30 November 2022 to allow him to make arrangements to leave or submit an application. His application for leave to remain was made during the period of the assurance, on 29 November 2022. This was refused in a decision dated 19 December 2022 as he had overstayed his visa from 30 January 2022 to 16 November 2022 and therefore didn’t meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules.

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