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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Polish woman, 80, faces deportation from UK after mistakenly filling in form online

Elzbieta Olszewska with Michal Olszewski at home in Lincoln.
Elzbieta Olszewska, left, with her son, Michal Olszewski, who said: ‘This decision feels like it was made by a Soviet bureaucracy.’ Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

A Polish woman has been threatened with deportation by the Home Office because her application form to stay was accidentally filled in online instead of on paper.

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 who lives in Lincoln with his wife, had been travelling regularly to the Polish capital to support her.

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