Home Office treated couple living legally in UK 'like criminals'

Maria Cristina Úbeda Tuero-O’Donnell, from Spain, tells of anger over three-year ordeal after husband applied for residency

A Spanish woman who has lived in the UK for 15 years has accused the Home Office of treating her family like criminals after her American husband and the father of her three children applied for a permanent residency (PR) card.

In a three-year ordeal, the Home Office threatened to deport the historian Stuart Ross three times, suggested he was lying about his wife’s work as a Spanish language teacher and refused to accept a judge’s verdict in a Belfast court that officials had been wrong to refuse the 49-year-old a PR card when he first applied in 2013.

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