Couple face Belarus prison and loss of surrogate child amid UK visa delays

Graeme Batsman says his Filipino wife's passport has been caught up in an admin issue' in Britain

A British man and his Filipino wife say they are facing imprisonment in Belarus and will miss out on starting a family via surrogacy because of UK delays in visa processing.

Graeme Batsman, a data security expert from Harrow, and his wife, Maura Mendez Arganda, travelled to Vitebsk oblast, Belarus, in February to arrange a surrogate birth that would cost them 25,000.