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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone

Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa face the potential deportation of their sons, Luca and Guilherme Serrano.
Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa with their sons Luca and Guilherme Serrano. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Guardian

A Brazilian mother and father have been left distraught after being told by the Home Office that their young children have no right to stay in the UK and should return to Brazil alone.

Guilherme Serrano, 11, and Luca Serrano, eight, have spent most of their lives living 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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