Family trip abroad ends in ‘bad dream’ as Home Office strands father in Turkey | Home Office
For more than two months, Siyabonga Twala’s life has been in a strange state of purgatory, waiting in an unfamiliar country to see if the Home Office will let him back into Britain.
Since New Year’s Eve he has been stuck in Turkey after being barred from boarding a return flight to Manchester, waking each day and wondering if he will ever live with his British son again.
The case of Twala, who told the Guardian of being “stuck in limbo’”, gives an insight into the continued impact of the so-called hostile environment on families at a time when the
