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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Syrian refugee says Home Office ‘breaking my heart’ by refusing dying mother entry to UK

Ola Al Hamwi standing with her hands on the shoulders of her mother, both smiling at the camera
Ola Al Hamwi with her mother, Soaad Al Shawa, before she and her husband fled Syria in 2015. Photograph: supplied

A Syrian refugee says the Home Office has “broken her heart” by trying to bar her mother, who has weeks to live, from coming to the UK to spend her final days with the grandchildren she has never met.

Ola Al Hamwi fled Syria with her husband, Mostafa Amonajid, in 2015. They had lost their baby after a bombing and were unable to take Al Hamwi’s mother, Soaad Al Shawa, with them.

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