Syrian refugee says Home Office ‘breaking my heart’ by refusing dying mother entry to UK

Diane Taylor - TheGuardian - 20/04
Home Office intervened after initial ruling allowing grandmother with terminal cancer to join family in Glasgow

A Syrian refugee says the Home Office has “broken her heart” by trying to bar her mother, who has weeks to live, from coming to the UK to spend her final days with the grandchildren she has never met.

Ola Al Hamwi fled Syria with her husband, Mostafa Amonajid, in 2015. They had lost their baby after a bombing and were unable to take Al Hamwi’s mother, Soaad Al Shawa,with them.

The couple were granted refugee status in the UK and applied to br...
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