Indian historian at Oxford faces deportation from UK for India stay. Here's why

According to a report in The Guardian, an Indian historian who has been in the UK for more than ten years faces deportation after the Home Office determined that she had gone over the allowed number of days overseas while doing research in India.

Due to her time spent outside the UK completing academic duties, Dr. Manikarnika Dutta, 37, who has worked at esteemed UK institutions such as the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol, has been granted indefinite permission to remain (ILR). The Home Office has ordered her to leave the country, even though her work is essential to her sector.

As the dependent of her husband, Souvik Naha, a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Dutta obtained a spouse visa after moving to the UK in 2012 to study a master's degree at the University of Oxford. Applicants for ILR based on lengthy residency are required by UK immigration regulations to have no more than 548 days spent overseas in a ten-year period.