When must the Upper Tribunal receive my renewed in-country permission application?

For an immigration or asylum appellant in the UK at application, an established ordinary refusal-of-permission notice starts 14 days after sending. The Upper Tribunal must receive the written application. A different prior outcome needs separate review.

Responsible actor. The appellant seeking permission from the Upper Tribunal after the First-tier stage.

First apply for permission to the First-tier Tribunal. Rule 21(2) requires that application to have been refused, not admitted or granted only on limited grounds.

Locate the sending date of the First-tier permission refusal notice. The merits-decision reasons date starts a different First-tier clock.

Confirm the appellant is in the UK when making the renewed application. A UK lawyer does not establish the appellant’s location.

Use rule 21(3)(aa) for an immigration or asylum appellant in the UK at application, with a sent First-tier refusal of permission or qualifying limited grant established. Mere nonadmission at the prior stage needs separate event and paragraph analysis. Check actual directions.

1. Identify the First-tier permission outcome and operative refusal notice.
2. Establish UK presence at the renewed application date.
3. Count 14 days after sending, then apply UT rule 12 final-day treatment.
4. Complete IAUT1 with the decision, reasons and permission outcome.
5. If late, request an extension and explain both stages where required.

Exclude the operative sent day. Count every following calendar day, including interior weekends and shutdown days. Test only the last date against the applicable Tribunal working-day definition.

UT rule 12(2) carries final nonworking days. Rule 12(3A) independently excludes December 27 through 31 for immigration and asylum. Rule 12(4) excludes the ordinary nonworking-day provisions where a specified-date direction applies.

Fictitious example

Established ordinary imm_ut_application_in_country branch. The input is the exact legally operative event stated in its individual brief. No different direction, special route or late-waiver assumption is made. Use rule 21(3)(aa) for an immigration or asylum appellant in the UK at application, with a sent First-tier refusal of permission or qualifying limited grant established. Mere nonadmission at the prior stage needs separate event and paragraph analysis. Check actual directions.

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.

Specified date

An actual UT specified-date direction requires separate treatment under rule 12(4).

Outside UK

An appellant outside the UK uses the separate calendar-month branch, not this 14-day period.

Nonadmission is not automatically the ordinary refusal event

Rule 21(2) permits a renewed application after specified prior outcomes, but the ordinary UK 14-day calculation here requires the sent refusal event in rule 21(3)(aa). A prior nonadmission alone does not establish that event. Rule 21(7) separately addresses the interests-of-justice condition for a late First-tier stage.

• Use rule 21(3)(aa) for an immigration or asylum appellant in the UK at application, with a sent First-tier refusal of permission or qualifying limited grant established. Mere nonadmission at the prior stage needs separate event and paragraph analysis. Check actual directions.
• Use rule 21(3)(aa) for an immigration or asylum appellant in the UK at the time of the renewed application. Confirm the First-tier permission stage, limited grounds, any nonadmission and actual directions.

• Retain the refusal notice and sending evidence.
• Include the challenged decision and separate reasons under rule 21(5).
• Identify legal grounds, requested hearing and service address.
• Use current IAUT1 instructions and preserve actual UT receipt.
• UT rule 12(1) ordinarily sets 5 p.m. Written permission must reach the Upper Tribunal, not the First-tier Tribunal or Home Office. A late application requires the rule 21(6) extension request and reasons.