THE Home Office has apparently found its own paperwork in the case of a Black Watch lance-corporal who was refused a visa to bring his teenage daughter from Kenya to his home in the Highlands.
The National revealed exclusively yesterday how casework for Denis Omondi’s daughter Anne could not be found by Home Secretary Sajiv Javid’s civil servants.
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Despite being in the Army for the past eight years, he was refused a visa for his daughter – who is in a boarding school in Kenya – to live with him and his wife Shelagh in Inverness.
His MP Drew Hendry, who was pursuing the matter for him, had an angry exchange with David Mundell in the Commons yesterday, after which the Scottish Secretary said he would get involved. The SNP member later told The National: “It is four weeks since the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary gave me assurances that Denis’s case would be reviewed – yet here we are in the remarkable situation where the family still have no answers.
“I am now advised by the Home Office that the family’s paperwork has been located and that the review is under way but they could not give any indication of how long the review would take.
“The Secretary of State for Scotland has now added his name to that list of government ministers who have promised to help and I will be writing to both he and the Home Secretary to seek an urgent meeting to ensure Denis and his family get the justice they deserve.”
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