UAE-based medical graduate fails in bid to overturn UK student visa ban to study at Oxford
A medicine graduate awarded a place at the University of Oxford has failed in her bid to overturn the UK government’s refusal to give visas to students it says will go on to claim asylum. Dr Rawan Raad is among a group of seven women who went to the High Court to challenge the “visa brake” that was imposed on students from Afghanistan , Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan in March by Home Secretary…
Dr Rawan Raad, a medicine graduate with a first-class honours degree from Sudan, has lost her legal challenge to overturn the UK government's student visa ban. Seven women, including Raad, sought to challenge the "visa brake" imposed by UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in March. The ban targets students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan due to the high number of those claiming asylum after arriving.
Raad, currently living in the UAE, was offered a place at Oxford to study international health and tropical medicine through the Africa Oxford Initiative's Mastercard Scholarship. She aimed to contribute to rebuilding Sudan's devastated health system. Lawyers argued that the visa brake, which applies regardless of the students' intentions to return or their existing lives abroad, was unlawful discrimination against women from conflict-affected countries.
However, Judge Karen Steyn dismissed these claims, stating the Home Secretary is not required to focus on immigration as a tool for addressing global discrimination. She also rejected the notion that the Home Secretary could not objectively assess the potential misuse of the student visa route.
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