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Half the Hareth family obtained visas – but three sons faced a dangerous year -long journey, and finally received refugee status
Najat Ibrahim Ismail, 35, was jailed for assisting illegal entry in 2017 after he collected his niece, who had suffered serious burns at a refugee camp in Dunkirk, and smuggled her into Britain.
LONDON: An Iraqi man who saved his baby niece by bringing her to the UK illegally has been granted leave to remain following years of legal attempts by the Home Office to deport him, The Guardian reported. Najat Ibrahim Ismail, who arrived in Britain in 2004, saved his niece, Rwen Tahsin Ibrahim, then only 7 months old, after she had sustained significant burn injuries in a
Najat Ibrahim Ismail was jailed in 2017 and officials tried to deport him three times before judge’s ruling in his favour
SHARE A family of asylum seekers from Yemen can remain together in Britain, after they won a reprieve from the Home Office. Under new post-Brexit plans, following the UK's departure from the EU, Home Secretary Priti Patel had announced that anyone arriving in Britain seeking asylum should be returned to the first safe country they entered from. The Yemeni father arrived by a flight from a Gulf state, after he obtained a visitor visa, and claimed asylum . His three sons, Hamzeh, 26, Hassan, 24, and Hazem, 22, made an overland journey that took almost a year, culminating in a hazardous boat t...