{"id":8421,"date":"2017-09-25T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:30:41","slug":"lesbian-expatriate-wins-landmark-appeal-against-hong-kong-immigration-department-to-secure-spousal-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/lesbian-expatriate-wins-landmark-appeal-against-hong-kong-immigration-department-to-secure-spousal-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian expatriate wins landmark appeal against Hong Kong Immigration Department to secure spousal visa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kathmandu (Pahichan) September 25 – A lesbian expatriate on Monday won a landmark appeal against the Hong Kong Immigration Department\u2019s refusal to grant her a spousal visa, in a ruling that could pave the way for other gay partners to join their loved ones in the city.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Court of Appeal\u2019s decision means that the woman, known as QT,\u00a0who initiated the judicial review<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0failing to secure a dependant visa<\/a>\u00a0through her same-sex partner, will now be able to get the same immigration documents previously only granted to heterosexual couples.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n

In their 68-page judgment, reached unanimously, three appeal court judges said the department had failed to demonstrate the visa scheme had been put in place rationally.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe director [of immigration] has therefore failed to justify the indirect discrimination on account of sexual orientation that QT suffers,\u201d Justice of Appeal Jeremy Poon Shiu-chor wrote. Chief Judge of the High Court Andrew Cheung Kui-nung and the vice-president of the appeal court, Mr Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon, agreed.<\/div>\n

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QT moved to Hong Kong in late 2011 with her same-sex partner, known as SS, who works in the city.<\/p>\n

She applied for a judicial review after the department rejected her application for a dependant visa, saying it did not recognise same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

The judges asked both QT and the department to work out an arrangement in accordance with the judgment and submit a proposal within 28 days.<\/p>\n

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Kathmandu (Pahichan) September 25 – A lesbian expatriate on Monday won a landmark appeal against the Hong Kong Immigration Department\u2019s refusal to grant her a spousal visa, in a ruling that could pave the way for other gay partners to join their loved ones in the city.<\/p>\n

The Court of Appeal\u2019s decision means that the woman, known as QT,\u00a0who initiated the judicial review\u00a0after\u00a0failing to secure a dependant visa\u00a0through her same-sex partner, will now be able to get the same immigration documents previously only granted to heterosexual couples.<\/p>\n

In their 68-page judgment, reached …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,490,11],"tags":[1595,445,524,588],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-hong-kong","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbt","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}