Unfortunately, despite your wonderful support, the Home Office is still refusing to take a decision on Myrtle’s applications for permission to remain and access to public funds. Her applications have been outstanding for 8 and 6 months respectively.
Even though Myrtle and her daughter Mary are on the brink of destitution and Myrtle is suffering from end stage heart failure and doesn’t have long to live, the Home Office is in no hurry to take a decision on her applications and informed an MP that they “cannot estimate a timescale within which [Myrtle’s] application will be decided”.
Myrtle can’t wait any longer – she needs a decision NOW.
So we now have to serve the Government with a detailed legal document stressing why the delay is unlawful and threaten them with judicial review.
So we need YOUR help to raise £2000 within the next 7 days for the necessary legal steps.
Any donation, however small, will help to ensure that Myrtle can live out her days with dignity without having to worry about becoming destitute or not getting her urgent care needs met.
With heartfelt thanks from Myrtle and her daughter Mary xxx
Background
In May 2020, Mary’s husband of 33 years, Dave, passed away. Dave was an incredibly caring, brave and wonderful husband and son-in-law to Myrtle.
During the Pandemic, despite suffering from debilitating Parkinson’s, he worked part time as a frontline worker, a supermarket cashier, and supported the family financially and emotionally.
As a result of his death and the loss of his financial support to the household, Mary and Myrtle have fallen on hard times and are facing destitution.
With YOUR support, we can challenge this so that both Myrtle and Mary can get the necessary support.
Your kind donations have saved Myrtle's life in the past by keeping her in the UK with her beloved daughter Mary and by preventing her from being sent back to South Africa.
YOUR support, however small, can now enable Myrtle to live out her days with dignity, care and support without having to worry about becoming destitute.
How donations will be used
All donations will be used to help Myrtle's situation in the UK. They will be used to cover legal costs and legal advice and, where funds exceed those necessary for legal action, may cover emergency funds to ease the financial hardship experienced by Mary and Myrtle whilst her applications are pending and whilst she's prohibited from accessing public funds.