Can I ask you to sign this petition keep Wahid in the UK.

[IsabellaofFrance]

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Wahid has Down Syndrome and has been in the UK since 1997. He has built a life here, but now his parents have died and so moves have been made to deport him back to Beirut.

Genuine and probably ignorant question- if his parents were allowed to live here, how come he theoretically isn't? I agree it would be very wrong to deport him but I would like a deeper understanding of how this came about as well.

I wondered a similar thing Silver - why aren't his brothers being deported?

Unless perhaps it's because they're employed?

I have signed

I know that often parents or other family members others can not visa requirements are complex

The only other thing I've been able to find out about it at the moment is from another petition site, which states that his brothers are financially supporting him. Which makes it even odder.

Vince Cable is asking the same question
metro.co.uk/2014/08/30/man-with-downs-syndrome-faces-deportation-after-17-years-in-britain-because-his-parents-died-4851298/

why is it odd

maybe parents are dead

brother could be married to someone who holds a british passport

there are a number of reasons

By odd I meant 'currently unexplained (to me)', it's not a suggestion that I don't believe it or anything. I just want to understand why some of the parent's children are allowed to stay but one isn't, especially as that one is far more vulnerable than the rest. The British passport thing is a good point and the sort of thing I'm asking about.

When I worked for the NHS back in the late 80s we had a family come in to the department on a regular business, well one little girl.

She was the youngest of 5 siblings, the 4 older ones had been granted leave to remain and were all working, and they were working to pay for her treatment because she wasn't entitled to NHS care, so a Dr would order a few tests and then the siblings would ask which was most important because they would pay for that one and then save for the others.

The only reason the youngest wasn't given leave to remain seemed to be purely because she would cost the NHS money.

Not sure exactly what her status was, something similar to a visitor visa but allowed to remain because she was a child but not allowed to become a permanent resident.