A nurse has told how she had to get married alone after visa delays kept her more than 4,000 miles from her husband.
Hazel Taylor, 38, was forced to celebrate her wedding without her new husband, Kareem Kowaitly, because of Home Office backlogs that meant he couldn’t fly into the UK.
The couple met in Abu Dhabi when Hazel was working there during the pandemic, but there have been a number of roadblocks to their relationship.‘Then Covid happened, and it was bad from a travel point of view. When the couple shared a holiday in Norfolk last year, Kareem proposed, and they decided to aim for a future in the UK.
They decided to head to Georgia to formally tie the knot – only for Putin to further threaten their plans. Hazel said: ‘When we applied for a visa decision, the waiting time was 12 weeks. Our plan was that even if he got rejected, he would be able to get a tourist visa for the wedding, but we didn’t even get a decision.‘My dad had flown over from Australia and other people had travelled from Europe, so we just had a party.
A message from Mr Chishti’s assistant added: ‘The rationale for this is that in the mid-spring you had two crises impact the Home Office at the same time, that being an unprecedented surge in passport applications following two summers where international travel was difficult to impossible, and due to the demand for and the launch of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
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