Father prevents deportation of his children from UK
Published: 2013 February 24 14:14:09 (5245 Views)
Justin Tutt, a South African expatriate has won a reprieve preventing the deportation of his two children from Britain.
Seth,8 and his sister, Leigh, 5 had only 5 days left before they were due to be sent back to return to South Africa.
"I will do everything in my power to stop them from being sent to South Africa," Justin Tutt was quoted as saying in The Sunday Times.
"Why must they end up in foster care when they have a father who loves them and wants to bring them up?" he asked.
Tutt, from Burnley, in Lancashire, wants British immigration to allow his children to stay with him in the UK on humanitarian grounds.
His estranged wife Deidre, who suffered from depression, committed suicide eight months ago and the children were sent to live with their maternal grandparents.
The Sunday Times reported that the UK Border Agency had said Tutt could apply for his children to be granted indefinite leave to remain in the country.
When his marriage fell apart five years ago, Tutt, who has a British passport but was born and raised in South Africa, moved back to the UK.
"There was never any other option than that they had to come and stay with me. Imagine my shock when I found out that my British passport does not qualify them automatic entry," he told the newspaper.
He said tougher immigration laws were introduced last year.
A solicitor was helping Tutt apply for a settlement visa to allow his children to stay in Britain for five years, after which they could apply for British citizenship, the newspaper reported.
- News24
Seth,8 and his sister, Leigh, 5 had only 5 days left before they were due to be sent back to return to South Africa.
"I will do everything in my power to stop them from being sent to South Africa," Justin Tutt was quoted as saying in The Sunday Times.
"Why must they end up in foster care when they have a father who loves them and wants to bring them up?" he asked.
Tutt, from Burnley, in Lancashire, wants British immigration to allow his children to stay with him in the UK on humanitarian grounds.
His estranged wife Deidre, who suffered from depression, committed suicide eight months ago and the children were sent to live with their maternal grandparents.
The Sunday Times reported that the UK Border Agency had said Tutt could apply for his children to be granted indefinite leave to remain in the country.
When his marriage fell apart five years ago, Tutt, who has a British passport but was born and raised in South Africa, moved back to the UK.
"There was never any other option than that they had to come and stay with me. Imagine my shock when I found out that my British passport does not qualify them automatic entry," he told the newspaper.
He said tougher immigration laws were introduced last year.
A solicitor was helping Tutt apply for a settlement visa to allow his children to stay in Britain for five years, after which they could apply for British citizenship, the newspaper reported.
- News24
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