HSMP ILR JR - Key Question!

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Dear All,

We had seen a favourable court decision yesterday on the issue of HSMP ILR JR.

Those of you who have read through the published judgement text, may have noticed that the whole judgement revolves around the word

"ADMITTED"

I have struggled since long to find a clear definition of the phrase "Admitted under the HSMP Scheme".

I have serched the web, this forum and the BIA site, without a clear definition of what it means.

To me this could generally mean one of the two below:

1. legally eligible to enter under the HSMP scheme - viz a person has an approval letter making him / her eligible to apply for HSMP but need not be in the UK under an HSMP visa.

2. In the UK under the HSMP Scheme - viz someone admitted in the UK by the immegration department under HSMP visa.

In light of each of the above two , the current HSMP ILR JR ruling has differnet meanings.

Can anyone please point out to a clear definition of the phrase "admitted to the scheme" in refernce to the UK immigration?

I have a feeling we may be looking at a new issue here if no legal definition of the term "admitted to the scheme" ia available, because if it means being in the UK under HSMP, then I am afraid only those small number of people who were in UK under HSMP on or before 3rd April are covered with this judgement.


The reason this question struck me is, I have seen several articles in the newspapers where they seem to refer to the affected number of people by this decision as to be about 10,000 [which sounds small unless they are refering to only those who were in the UK on 3rd April].

I will appriciate any discussion / direction around this query.

Thanks,