Immigration has been a hot button with the politicians for a long while.
However, one would hope that common sense would be able to untangle a mess like this one. The UK husband, British citizen Mr. Cable (an electrician, no less!) brought his Brasilian family to the UK. Now the non-British family are leaving ahead of being deported. His youngest son was born in the UK and, with a British father, is a British citizen. His wife was offered a job that she couldn't take. His older children have had to interrupt their education. What a mess.
Why is the family being deported? Instead of filling out a settlement visa when they arrived here, they filled out a visitor's visa. Now, any fule kno that something like this is an innocent mistake. Once the family's papers such as their marriage certificate and the birth certificates of their children are produced, the paperwork should have been retroactively dealt with. However, they had to return to Brasil before they were deported.
If I were Mr. Cable, I'd stay in Brasil. It worked for the Great Train Robber.
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