‘Incredibly hard’: parents separated from baby by Brexit delays

The couple said a timeline for the residency permit process from the Home Office ‘would be a major step in the right direction’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

A German biophysicist and his neurophysicist wife have told how they were separated from their newborn baby amid Home Office delays processing a post-Brexit residency application for their little girl.

Darius, an associate professor at a Russell Group university in England, and his Indian wife, Sunaina, arrived in the UK before Brexit and had settled status – entitling them and their direct family members to reside in the country.