Ms Dhansari Budha Magar is an ailing 85-year-old widow of a former Gurkha soldier, late Manjit Bura Magar (Army Number 21133680).  She has been experiencing very distressing situation since her arrival in the UK on 10th June 2019.  She is very frail and has been constantly restless and agitated due to being in a completely unfamiliar environment and not seeing her daughter around.  This has significantly impacted her health and wellbeing. 
 
Ms Dhansari Budha Magar and her daughter Miss Kamala Budha Magar are interdependent on each other financially and emotionally.  Miss Kamala is the only remaining family member Ms Dhansari has who was looking after her as a sole carer until she flew to the UK for settlement.  In order to seek medical help and to settle in the UK under Home Secretary’s discretionary policy for Gurkhas discharged before 1st July 1997 and their families, Ms Dhansari made a joint application with her daughter Miss Kamala.  However, the Entry Clearance Officer (ECO) granted leave to enter only to Ms Dhansari and refused Miss Kamala’s entry clearance application to join her mother in the UK under Human Right claims.
 
The ECO’s decision put Ms Dhansari and her daughter under financial and emotional stress.  Given the situation, Ms Dhansari had no option but to travel to the UK on her own without any support with a hope to appeal against the decision for her daughter.  However, due to the bad logistic plan and her ill-health, Ms Dhansari ended up in Hillingdon Hospital straight from the airport on her arrival.  After spending 52 unpleasant nights at the Hospital, she is transferred to her bungalow in Uxbridge.  Since Ms Dhansari has no immediate families and close friends to give her that extra support here in the UK based on her complex needs, I have been supporting her in the capacity of support worker, advocate, carer and what not in her best interest and in good faith.  However, it has been very challenging four months for me and those around me supporting to support Ms Dhansari meet her needs and maintain her health and wellbeing.   Therefore, I have launched this petition on her behalf to call on the Home Office to review its decision at an earliest opportunity and allow her daughter Miss Kamala Budha Magar to join her mother Ms Dhansari Budha Magar without any further delay.
 
Ms Dhansari has multiple health conditions including traumatic brain injury, dementia, depression, incontinence and chronic open wound on her right toe.  Her medical needs are being addressed and she is being assessed and supported by a number of health professionals and entities.  Despite all that, she keeps wandering day and night and keeps calling her daughter Miss Kamala’s name.  She gets frustrated for not having her daughter present.  If we are to think of sending her back to her daughter for a minute, her mental and physical health will not allow her to make such a long flight to Nepal.  On the other hand, let say she has safely landed in Nepal.  Then what happens?  She will be deprived off the medical and welfare support in Nepal which will significantly plummet her dignity, health and wellbeing.  Ms Dhansari is under 24/7 care and supervision.  She needs full help with personal care and nutrition intake.  She has impaired hearing, vision and cognitive function.  I am helping her out to maintain her health and wellbeing and have a functioning household until daughter joins in.  Miss Kamala on the other hand is having the lowest time of her life for not being able to support her mother at this difficult time.  I put Miss Kamala and Ms Dhansari on the phone.  This helps Ms Dhansari calm down for a bit but again she starts to physically look for her daughter. 
 
Ms Dhansari is emotionally attached to her daughter Miss Kamala as much as Miss Kamala is attached to her mother.  Like any committed daughter Miss Kamala never left her mother alone and chose to remain unmarried just to support and look after her ailing mother.  However, the ECO did not take note of the reality and refused Miss Kamala’s application.  Had both the applications been rejected, Ms Dhansari and Miss Kamala would not have been in such a miserable and unjustifiable situation today. The ECO’s thought process to think that an 85-year-old lady with multiple health conditions would survive on her own in a completely unfamiliar environment was categorically flawed.  This decision has not only ripped the family apart but also has done a significant emotional and financial damage to the family of a loyal former Gurkha soldier.  Furthermore, this judgement has made the Gurkhas reflect on their position in the British society.
 
We call on the Home Office and the Government to:
1)  Review its decision and grant Miss Kamala Budha Magar the leave to enter the UK  without any further delay so that Miss Kamala could join in to spend some quality time with her mother Ms Dhansari Budha Magar and exchange the emotional support to each other
2)  Substantiate the debt of honour to the Gurkhas and families for their sacrifice
3)  Make historic injustice a thing of the past and get it right on this occasion

4) Make us feel proud for the service we have done to Her Majesty and as a member of the Armed Forces Community.