Family reunited after eight-month visa limbo

After speaking on STV News two weeks ago, the Home Office acted

A family forced to live thousands of miles apart for eight months over a visa wrangle have finally been reunited.

Dr Alaa Garad’s wife and four daughters were stuck in Egypt after travelling from their home in Fife to visit his ill mother-in-law.

But that invalidated an application to renew their visas.

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