AUSTRALIAN boat race protester Trenton Oldfield will be allowed to stay in the United Kingdom after an immigration tribunal judge said the activist had made a positive contribution to British society.
Mr Oldfield has successfully appealed a decision of Home Secretary Theresa May to deport him on the basis his presence in Britain was "not conducive to the public good".
Immigration tribunal Judge Kevin Moore will make his official determination within 10 days but told Monday's tribunal hearing that he would be finding in favour of the 37-year-old.
"It would be my intention to allow your appeal," the judge told Mr Oldfield in London.
"There is no doubt in my view to your character and the value you are to UK society generally."
Earlier the tribunal heard that if Mr Oldfield had been deported his British wife, Deepa Naik, and their five-month-old baby daughter wouldn't have moved to Australia with him because it was a "racist country".
The UK government earlier this year rejected Mr Oldfield's request for a spousal visa. The activist, originally from Sydney, has lived in the UK for more than 10 years.
In April 2012 he swam into the path of the Cambridge and Oxford rowing crews as they raced down the Thames in a protest against elitism and inequality. He was subsequently jailed for seven weeks.
Immediately after the hearing Mr Oldfield said he was very relieved by Monday's decision.
But asked if it was good to hear the judge say he'd made a positive contribution in Britain, the Australian replied: "I don't know."
"It's such a strange thing," he told reporters.
"Who knows what's good and what's bad. We have a public profile so people know about us.
"(However) there are a lot of people that make a contribution to the public good that don't have the level of public profile we have."
Mr Oldfield said deportation was "an old idea from another time - 1000 years ago".
"We need to rethink that," he said.
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