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Court rules abandoned wives should be allowed to return to UK

A woman who was abandoned in Pakistan by her British husband and forcibly separated from her two-year-old daughter has won a high court case against such practice.

In a landmark ruling, a judge found that women in her situation have been unlawfully discriminated against and should be allowed to return to the UK.


The case highlighted a practice known as transnational marriage abandonment. Women who come to the UK on a spouse visa and marry a British man sometimes end up being deceived into returning to ....



Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd

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