{"id":144127,"date":"2020-05-14T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/14\/home-office-lost-passport-of-man-battling-for-decades-to-remain-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2020-05-14T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:58:51","slug":"home-office-lost-passport-of-man-battling-for-decades-to-remain-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=144127","title":{"rendered":"Home Office lost passport of man battling for decades to remain in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osman Bash Taqi, a teacher from Sierra Leone, has been in limbo since early 1990s despite having a right to remainA teacher from Sierra Leone has spent 28 years battling the Home Office for permission to remain in the UK, even though lawyers say he has had a legal right to be in the country from the start.Osman Bash Taqi, 55, known as Ossie, has found himself in an extraordinary Catch-22 scenario which has spanned six governments from John Major to Boris Johnson, and seen the immigration goalposts moved more times than he can count. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/may\/14\/home-office-lost-passport-osman-bash-taqi-battling-to-remain-in-country\" target=\"_blank\">Home Office lost passport of man battling for decades to remain in UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osman Bash Taqi, a teacher from Sierra Leone, has been in limbo since early 1990s despite having a right to remainA teacher from Sierra Leone has spent 28 years battling the Home Office for permission to remain in the UK, even though lawyers say he has had a legal right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}