Submitted on Tuesday 10th June 2014
Published on Wednesday 11th June 2014
Current status: Closed
Closed: Monday 30th March 2015
Signatures: 374
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Council ~ disaster ~ Home Secretary ~ UK
To allow a 13 year old Chernobyl girl; Iryna Mynich a future in Cornwall.
We call on the Home Secretary to allow Iryna Mynich entry to the UK. Iryna is a 13 year old Ukrainian girl who came to Cornwall in 2012 for a recuperative health visit. Iryna lives just outside the exclusion zone of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Whilst here, mum was brutally murdered at home. Iryna has no father, lives in poverty & is a carer for gran, 76, infirm & has cancer. Gran’s dying wish is that Iryna comes & lives with Heather & me. Cornwall Council & Bodmin College have offered her a place. The government says she MUST go to a private school, but ALL in Cornwall have rejected her as the Government says that she must also speak good English! We are in a ‘Catch 22’. We invited her to visit us whilst sorting the long term plan, after which I would return with her to Ukraine to care for her. 5 days before she was due to arrive here on her booked return ticket, her visa was REJECTED - apparently we would adopt her HERE in the UK in the space of these 6 months – impossible!
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