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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Parents rejoice as Home Office halts decision to send children back to Brazil

The Barbosa family sitting on the children's bunkbed
‘A huge relief for all of us’: The boys with their parents, Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Guardian

A family is celebrating after the Home Office has put a stop to its decision to send two young children back to Brazil while allowing their parents to remain in the UK.

The Guardian previously reported on the case of Guilherme Serrano, 11, and his brother Luca, eight, who have spent most of their lives in the UK with their mother, Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia, a senior NHS nurse, and father, Dr Hugo Barbosa, a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Exeter.

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