Valued doctor ‘will be forced to leave UK’ after autistic daughter refused visa

Tajwer Siddiqui, his daughter Alina Siddiqui and his wife, Shehlar Tajwer. He says he will have to return to Pakistan unless officials reconsider their decision. Photograph: none

An experienced and highly regarded doctor who is working at a GP surgery in east London says he has no choice but to walk away from his job because the Home Office is separating him from his wife and autistic daughter.

Tajwer Siddiqui says he has found himself in this situation at a time when the number of full-time GPs in the UK is falling.