Eight years is a long time to've been married ... for any woman to face separation from her husband and kids on the basis of the rigidity of the Draconian new *rules. Mind you, since the family has been back in the UK since March ... it's a wonder they didn't think to act before *these came into force.

Seems there are a lot of "grey areas" that haven't been reported ... and which readers of this article may be unaware of ... ... otherwise it is surely the very type of case you'd have expected would've been pounced upon and challenged by the European Court of Human Rights.

Having said that, we can only hope and for some sort of intervention that will somehow prevent this family - and others like it - being torn apart by heartless bureaucracy.