Amany Abdelmeguid came to the UK from Egypt in 2016 on a tier 2 visa, sponsored by Health Education England as part of a drive to recruit junior doctors in the UK. At the same time, her husband – an anaesthetist – took a job in Saudi Arabia to get the training he needed to also work for the NHS. The couple’s daughter, Layan, known as Lily, was left in Egypt with her paternal grandparents. Abdelmeguid applied for Lily’s visa in July 2017. The application was rejected on the grounds that Abdelmeguid’s husband wasn’t in the UK at the time it was made.

Source: The Guardian March 21, 2018 17:04 UTC