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UK tells blind Nigerian pensioner to go to India for medical treatment
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Woman who has lived in UK for 26 years refused indefinite leave to remain under Home Office’s new settlement rules A blind Nigerian pensioner who has lived in the UK for 26 years has been told by the Home Office she can safely go to India, a country she has never visited, for med
Woman who has lived in UK for 26 years refused indefinite leave to remain under Home Office’s new settlement rules A blind Nigerian pensioner who has lived in the UK for 26 years has been told by the Home Office she can safely go to India, a country she has never visited, for medical treatment. Comfort*, 67, arrived in the UK in 2000, and shortly after suddenly went blind due to acute glaucoma. Continue reading...
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