Court overturns UK decisions blocking Gaza mothers, children from family reunification

LONDON: A UK immigration court has overturned government decisions preventing two Palestinian families in Gaza from joining their husbands and fathers in Britain, ruling that the Home Office acted unlawfully in applying its policy on biometric checks. The immigration court known as the upper tribunal found that the government had unlawfully applied its “unsafe journeys” policy to the two families, whose mothers and five children, aged 7 or younger, are seeking to reunite with their husbands and