‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter
‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter
Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother
The case echoes two similar cases in 2019, where the Home Office was forced to do a U-turn on refusing entry to the children of two women researchers at Oxford University, after widespread condemnation from academics across the world.
Academics say that banning the children of researchers is not uncommon, but parents are typically too scared to go public. Kiguru said this weekend that she was “devastated” by the “horrific” decision to ban her daughter from moving to the UK and could not bear “to think about how alone and isolated she is feeling” back in Kenya.
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It echoes two similar cases in 2019, where the Home Office was forced to do a U-turn on refusing entry to the children of two women researchers at Oxford University, after widespread condemnation from academics across the world.
The visa process should take 15 working days, but it was not until Bristol University intervened at the start of November that she discovered her daughter’s application had been rejected earlier in October.
A colleague supporting Kiguru’s appeal, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of Home Office reprisals with her own visa, said: “They imply Doseline chose to leave her daughter.
Madhu Krishnan, a professor of African, world and comparative literatures at Bristol University, said: “The decision to separate a young child from her mother under such spurious grounds is an act of unthinkable cruelty, of which we have sadly become familiar in recent years.”
The society has denounced “disproportionate” increases to visa fees, planned from next year, as a “punitive tax on talent”, with top researchers coming to the UK facing costs up to 10 times higher than other leading science nations.
Sir Adrian Smith, the society’s president, said: “If the UK is to truly be a world leader in the competitive global research environment, we need urgent action to remove these barriers.”
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