Posted on 04/06/2018 6:02:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
Sister Ban Madleen wanted to visit her sick sister in Britain
An Iraqi nun who wants to visit her sick sister in the UK has been denied a visa by the Home Office.
Sister Ban Madleen was driven out of Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town in the Nineveh plains, by ISIS, who took over her Dominican convent. She settled as a refugee in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdestan, where she set up kindergartens. The refugees are returning to their home towns now that ISIS have been driven out.
Sister Ban is not the first religious to have problems visiting Britain, according to Fr Benedict Kiely, founder of Nasarean.org, which helps the persecuted Christians of the Middle East. Another Dominican nun with a PhD in Biblical Theology from Oxford has been refused a visa twice.
The letter from UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office, gives the reasons for refusing Sister Ban a visa: that she had not provided evidence of her earnings as a kindergarten principal, and that she had not provided confirmation that the Dominican Sisters of St Catherine of Siena would fund her visit. For these reasons, the letter says the clearance officer is not satisfied that she is genuinely seeking entry for a permissible purpose.
Rather than allowing Sister Ban to provide the necessary evidence, the letter, a copy of which the Catholic Herald has seen, ends: “In relation to this decision there is no right of appeal or right to administrative review.”
The letter acknowledges the importance of family visits, and accepts that Sister Ban had previously travelled to the UK and complied with the terms of her visa, but points out that she was issued that visa seven years ago in 2011 and comments specifically on her absence of recent travel to......
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The Brits have truly surrendered.
She should claim to be a muslim- they’ll not only let her in, they’ll let her stay there permanently and they’ll give her “free” money, “free” health care and a “free” place to live.
The UK is totally deranged.
Because the UK is Islamic, that’s why.
Unfortunately, I am sure you are correct. Its pretty sick, isn't it?
My late father always referred to them as “the godless English.”
Christian Kindergartens, unregulated and unapproved by the state? Truly she is some kind of threat to the state.
LOL! England lets any itinerant Muslim who walks across their border to stay, but will not let this person come visit.
Ya, makes sense to me.
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