12 Oct 1988
DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION v. SEA-ANG PAISARN
- Citation
- DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION v. SEA-ANG PAISARN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV64/1988
The Court held that under section 11(5A)(c) an immigration officer may enlarge a limit of stay at any time, before or after its expiry; such retrospective enlargements remove the unlawfulness of any intervening overstay and therefore those periods count for the continuous seven‑year residence test; accordingly the appellant qualified as a Hong Kong permanent resident and enjoyed the right of abode, and the Immigration Tribunal's ruling in his favour was restored.