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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Diane Taylor

Home Office refuses to speed up visa case of woman with terminal cancer

Eulalee Pennant
Eulalee Pennant made an application in January for further leave to remain, but is still waiting for it to be processed. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardian

A great-grandmother and Windrush campaigner who has terminal cancer has begged the Home Office to resolve her immigration status before she dies, but it has refused to expedite her case.

Eulalee Pennant, 64, of Jamaican heritage, arrived in the UK in 2001 and was granted a student visa. At one point, her immigration case was stuck in a Home Office backlog for a decade. She was granted discretionary leave to remain in 2019 on the basis of family life with her partner, Gilford Fraser, a British citizen and Windrush descendant, who arrived in the UK from Jamaica in 1968 at the age of 12.

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