Ukrainian family describe trauma of UK visa processing
by Diane Taylor and Kim Willsher from World news | The Guardian on (#5WWE1)
The treatment we received from the French and the British has been so different,' says father Yakiv Voloshchuk
A Ukrainian mother and daughter fleeing the war finally arrived on UK soil on Monday evening, after more than a week of grappling with visa problems with British officials in France.
Before the family could reach the UK, Oksana Voloshchuk, 40, whose husband is a British citizen of Ukrainian heritage and a former London bus driver, and the couple's daughter Veronika Voloshchuk, 15, were twice detained by UK Border Force officials in Calais, made eight trips to the UK visa processing centre in Paris, two trips to the British consulate there and one trip to the British embassy.
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