Doctor who feared having to leave UK after visa blow wins Home Office U-turn

Department says it has reconsidered case of Tajwer Siddiqui, whose autistic adult daughter was refused visa

A doctor from Pakistan who feared he would have to leave his job at a GP surgery in east London is celebrating after a Home Office U-turn over a decision that would have separated him from his family.

On Monday morning the Guardian reported on the case of Tajwer Siddiqui, 59, and his wife, Shehlar Tajwer, 50, who had been granted visas to come to the UK while their daughter, Alina Tajwer Siddiqui, 19, had not.