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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Diane Taylor

Polish woman, 80, threatened with deportation can stay in UK

Elzbieta Olszewska with her son, Michal Olszewski, at home in Lincoln.
Elzbieta Olszewska with her son, Michal Olszewski, at home in Lincoln. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

A Polish woman who had her application to remain in the UK rejected because she mistakenly filled in a form online instead of on paper has been granted permission to stay in Britain after a change of mind by the Home Office.

Elzbieta Olszewska, 80, had been living alone in her flat in Warsaw before arriving in the UK last September. Her only child, Michal Olszewski, 52, an aeronautical engineer and dual British-Polish citizen, who lives in Lincoln with his wife, had been travelling regularly to the Polish capital to support his mother.

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