The Home Office has issued a visa and apologised to the wife of a Royal Navy pilot left stranded in the US while her husband serves in the UK. Marianne Rawlins, 34, has been granted a UK visa to join her husband, Lt Simon Rawlins, after the UK Visa and Immigration department initially ruled her application was not straightforward and required extra information. The Home Office announced on Thursday evening that it had approved her visa application and apologised for the disruption. “Nevertheless, I was willing to make these sacrifices because Simon’s job as a Royal Navy pilot is etched into the very fibre of who he is. I never imagined the visa component would be this difficult.”The couple married in April this year and a month later Lt Rawlins received orders to return to the UK and his wife applied for her settlement visa.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2017 20:12 UTC