HEMA PATEL from Birming- with the outcome of her appeal ham has won her 8-year battle and has vowed to fight for other against the Home Office and women who are facing deportathe right to stay in Britain. tion because their marriages have Hema came to Britain in 1986 broken down. to marry a British citizen. Follow- She also argues that British iming her marriage in 1987 she was migration laws are racist and sexgiven 12 months leave to remain ist and must be changed. in the UK.
But her marriage ran into trouble in the first year and she left her husband. The Home Office refused het further leave to remain and then issued her with a Deportation Order.
Her case was taken up by the West Midlands Anti-Deportation campaign, backed by her union USDAW. A national campaign gathered thousands of signatures. and individual letters of support from all over the country. • Hema is extremely pleased.
• Hema Patel
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 78. 25 February 1995, Page 6.