Home Office lost passport of man battling for decades to remain in UK

Osman Bash Taqi, a teacher from Sierra Leone, has been in limbo since early 1990s despite having right to remain

A 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.