A British court has temporarily halted the removal of a 64-year-old Pakistani mother who was asked to leave Britain by the UK border agency after 17 years of living in this country. According to the details, widowed Ghulam Sughra, of Rochdale, north west England, came to UK on 9 May 1993 to see her son Akhtar Mahmood, a British citizen.
She applied on 5 September 1993 to stay with his son as a dependant mother allowed under Immigration rules. Both her late father and husband who passed away in 1980 as well as all her three children are British citizens. Despite the fact that she has nobody to look after her in Pakistan, the immigration authorities asked her to leave the UK last year in September and was given no right of appeal before an immigration judge. Through her lawyer Amjad Malik, she sought stay on her removal and earlier this month a Manchester High Court Judge granted permission to challenge the decision of UKBA.
The matter will now come before a full court hearing on July 12 in Manchester that would decide the fate of Sughra Bibi. According to her lawyer, this would be stern test for the new coalition government whose Liberal-Democrats partner has called for amnesty for those living illegal in the UK for the past 10 years.
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