Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif's application for visa extension in UK rejected: Reports

A foreign citizen cannot stay in the UK for more than six months at a time, pending visa extension. It is believed Sharif was applying and receiving these extensions till now.

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif's application for visa extension has been turned down by the UK Home Office with the right to appeal, according to media reports on Friday. Sharif, 71, convicted in two corruption cases in Pakistan, has been living in London, UK, since November 2019 after the Lahore High Court granted him permission to go abroad for four weeks for medical treatment. "The UK Home Office has excused itself from further extending Muhammad Nawaz Sharif''s visa," Dawn News quoted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb as saying.