Visa refusal for China expert Miwa Hirono is ‘pure madness’

Dear Theresa May, The UK wants to attract the best talent, I have been told. Now, thanks to your disgusting immigration policy, this country is losing a fine academic. As for me, I am disgusted and ashamed to be a citizen of this country. I am losing a dear friend, all thanks to your nasty, vindictive, and petty 'policies' that are only aimed at winning cheap votes from UKIP and allow you to make cheap political postures of looking 'tough' on immigration. Well done. I hope you're happy.

"she had breached a rule forbidding applicants from leaving the country for more than 180 days in any year during the previous five. She spent about 200 days abroad in 2009 and 2010". She is entirely responsible for losing her status. The rules are clear and she chose to ignore them.

Widcombe, let me clarify. In a nutshell, there was an immigration policy change in 2012, and the Home Office applied the new policy to my case retrospectively. The change was two-fold. First, I was supposed to extend my migrant visa (which everyone else was doing), for which none of this 180-day absence rule mattered. But since 2012 the new rule has been that the maximum period of extension is for 6 years, so I was 'forced' to apply for 'indefinite leave to remain' (ILR). Second, this new 180 day rule came into being in 2012. I had long absence from the UK for my research in 2009 and 2010, and they have applied this new law in my case retrospectively. In the old law, work-related absences were regarded as 'compelling' therefore I didn't breach the old law. Where in all this can we see natural justice?