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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Family separated on Channel crossing cannot reunite in UK, court rules

A dinghy overfilled with people at sea, seen from above
People crossing the Channel on a dinghy in March. In July, the two children crossed alone and were taken in by Kent county council. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

The court of appeal has ruled that a couple who were separated from their two young children on a migrant dinghy near northern France after the mother fell overboard cannot travel to the UK to be reunited with them.

The Kurdish family, including two children aged nine and six, boarded a dinghy near Calais on 19 July, hoping to cross the Channel to the UK to claim asylum after saying they had faced persecution in Turkey.

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