Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 03.02 EDT A blind asylum seeker says she has been left suicidal after the Home Office has failed to interview her about her case since she arrived in the UK 19 months ago. Sanaz Derikvandi, 33, was studying for a PhD in English literature in her home country of Iran when she says she had to flee because she converted to Christianity. Though she is blind due to glaucoma and more than 30 operations have failed to restore her sight, she travelled overland by lorry through Europe with her mother, Fatemeh Derikvandi, 59. They arrived in the UK in August 2019, many months before the pandemic started.