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UK tells blind Nigerian pensioner to go home to India

Guardian Politics 14 Nov 2026 1 views

Woman who has lived in UK for 26 years refused indefinite leave to remain under Home Office’s new settlement rules

A blind Nigerian pensioner who has lived in the UK for 26 years has been told by the Home Office she can safely “go home” to India.

Comfort*, 67, arrived in the UK in 2000, and shortly after suddenly went blind due to acute glaucoma.

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