Hong Kong Leading Case sexual orientationindirectdependant visaproportionality

QT v Director of Immigration

(2018) 21 HKCFAR 324

JurisdictionHong Kong

CourtCourt of Final Appeal (HKSAR)

Year2018

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

An immigration policy restricting dependant visas to opposite-sex married spouses indirectly discriminated against same-sex civil partners and could not be justified; differential treatment based on sexual orientation requires justification meeting the proportionality standard.

Area of Law

Practitioner & Recent-Significant Sweep

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