{"id":26529,"date":"2018-05-22T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=26529"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T10:04:12","slug":"visa-mistake-rips-family-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/visa-mistake-rips-family-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa Mistake Rips Family Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Umer Farooq\u2019s visa was rejected by the Home Office over what his family claims was a \u2018small mistake\u2019, forcing him to remain in Pakistan during his daughter\u2019s 4th birthday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Farooq travelled to Pakistan to take care of his mother in November 2014, before submitting a visa application to return back to the UK in August 2017. The application was denied in November 2017 over a \u2018small error\u2019, and so his wife re-submitted the documents for an appeal in December 2017. \u00a0The Home Office was due to respond by February 2018, but have missed their deadline by over a month. Farooq\u2019s wife, Nazneen Hussein, is still awaiting their response.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She says, \u2018I corrected the mistake, which wasn&#8217;t our mistake\u2026the refusal letter quite clearly states it&#8217;s just that one error\u2019. She claims the error was in fact due to the centre at which her husband took his English test. They had not provided the correct test code, resulting in the refusal of Farooq\u2019s application. His wife went on to say \u2018I am trying everything in my power but there are certain things that are out of my control\u2026My hair is falling out, I have anxiety, I need my husband home\u2019.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A spokeswoman at the Home Office has responded to the family\u2019s concerns, saying the Home Office are \u2018reconsidering Mr Farooq\u2019s case and will be in touch with his representatives shortly\u2019.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umer Farooq\u2019s visa was rejected by the Home Office over what his family claims was a \u2018small mistake\u2019, forcing him to remain in Pakistan during his daughter\u2019s 4th birthday. Farooq travelled to Pakistan to take care of his mother in November 2014, before submitting a visa application to return back to the UK in August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3732,"featured_media":26531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,112],"tags":[1121,1122,1120],"class_list":["post-26529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-mistake","tag-umer-farooq","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}