A frail pensioner with dementia faces being deported to Pakistan thousands of miles away from his family.
Hakeem Muhammad Haleem, 77, pictured, is partially blind and deaf and also suffers from a heart condition.
When the M.E.N visited his home in Oldham, he was unable to sit up without help. But he faces being sent thousands of miles away from his loved ones after the Home Office ruled he must return to his homeland.
Since 2010, the widower has lived with his son Muhammad Nadeem, 46, daughter-in-law Mehwish, 25, and granddaughter Manahal, four.
However, the Home Office have turned down the family’s application for a visa. Officials have now issued a deportation order and instructed he report to a detention centre later this month. Before 2012, settled UK residents could be joined by parents or grandparents over 65 if financial and living support could be provided.
But a strict new law means that only stands if long-term care in their home country is either more expensive - or non-existent.
