Children who have been left heartbroken following months of separation from their dad will finally be reunited after being granted permission to move to the UK.
Mum Jessica Mason said her young children repeatedly asked her why their dad wasn't around as they awaited permission from the Home Office for him to join the family in Newcastle. And there was further heartbreak last week when Jessica received a letter to say her husband, Sanas Sahib, who is originally from Dubai, had his visa application rejected.
Jessica, 36, from Heaton, said she had to force herself not to cry in front of her two children, Tariq, eight, and Layla, three, when she opened the UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI) letter to learn that her family's situation had not been deemed "exceptional enough" for Sanas to move to the UK from Sri Lanka, where the family had been living since 2017.
