GARDEN COURT – 11 January 2024
“Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for UK visa applicants and temporary UK residents” as of February 2021 stated in relevant part “You’ll be able to submit an application form from within the UK, whereas you would usually need to apply for a visa from your home country”. A reasonably competent lawyer would have understood this as arguably amounting to a policy concession outside the Rules that allowed a person to apply for further leave to remain in-country, even where their immigration status would ordinarily preclude this.”
OUR COMMENTS
The Coronavirus Extension Concession operated outside the Immigration Rules (24 January 2020 to 31 July 2020).
The Immigration Rules were amended for the Exceptional Assurance Concession (1 September 2020 to 28 February 2023).
