Legal dispute
This project aims to raise funds to resolve a claim, or other type of dispute.
Bring Our Children Home
Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Aim
To drive systematic change, raising funds to reunite children with their parents through regulated legal action for a fairer system.
We are two separate families who are migrant care workers in the UK whose respective children have been denied the right to live with us, their parents, in the UK.
Not because the evidence was missing, but because this evidence has been unlawfully dismissed by the Home Office.
We are raising funds and awareness to challenge these decisions legally and campaign for respectful and legally sound decisions from the Home Office.
These decisions were not just wrong, they reflect a wider pattern affecting migrant families like ours, many of whom, like us, are working in the UK as care workers, supporting an underfunded and poorly governed UK social care system.
At its heart, this is simple:
children belong with their parents.
Families should not be separated by such unlawful decisions.
The Reality for Our Families
In one case, two children have already suffered the devastating loss of their father. Without being allowed to join their mother in the UK, they are effectively left alone in their home country without the emotional care, stability, and protection that only a parent can provide.
In the other case, a child has experienced neglect and urgently needs to relocate to the UK to live with his father, supportive stepmother and siblings, to grow up in a safe and loving environment.
These are not technical cases. These are real children, with real lives, being shaped by these unlawful and harsh Home Office decisions.
What Is Going Wrong
Across these cases, we are seeing the same troubling issues:
- Evidence dismissed as “self-serving”; a term that does not exist in immigration law
- Official and legal documentation ignored or given little weight
- Publicly verifiable documents not properly checked (such as death certificates)
- Long and poorly explained delays in decisions
For all these issues and more, they raises serious concerns about fairness, transparency, and whether families are truly being respected.
In particular, the legally novel use of the term “self-serving” is concerning, given that the application process expressly requires applicants to provide this type of evidence. It is therefore wholly unreasonable to discount evidence that the Home Office itself has requested. To do so is both legally contradictory and inherently unfair, placing genuine applicants in an impossible situation to prove their claims.
We have both submitted Administrative Reviews, but for one of us the decision has been delayed for over twelve months. The other has recently been submitted, but we fear the same delay may occur.
The Home Office has stated that Administrative Review has seen a 50% annual increase in applications across numerous immigration routes which is causing a delay to expected decision times of more than twelve months.
We believe that this is due to poor decision making from the start and in our cases, not enough due regard for the Home Office's own published guidance and primarily the immigration rules.
Why This Matters
We believe the UK has the right to manage its borders. But this must never come at the cost of basic fairness and dignity.
We are lawfully in the UK. We work. We pay taxes. We provide essential care services in a sector that is already under pressure for poor governance and chronic underfunding.
In return, our asks are very simple:
the right to live with our children.
We are not working in the UK to be used and discarded.
We are parents. We are families. We deserve respect.
What We Are Fighting For
Our campaign seeks accountability. We want the Home Office to make lawful, evidence-based decisions and to stop wasting public money on avoidable refusals and delays.
With your support, we will challenge these decisions and fight for a system that respects both the law and the best interests of children.
How You Can Help
With your support, we will challenge these decisions and fight for our children.
Our initial goal is to raise enough funds to continue legal steps to be reunited with our children. But this is just the beginning of a wider action to support ourselves and others in similar situations. We will continue to campaign until justice is done and fair decision-making at the Home Office is witnessed.
Final Message
This is more than a legal case.
It is about how every parent deserves the right to care for their child.
It is about dignity.
It is about fairness.
Please support us. Help us bring our children home.
Thank you for standing with us.
Notes and Disclaimer:
The UK Status Justice Network (SJN) is an initiative dedicated to raising awareness and support for immigration issues impacting individuals and families across the UK. It promotes fairness, accountability, and respect for family life within the immigration system while supporting those affected by unjust outcomes. We are not a registered charity.
The initiative is founded by Ankunda Matsiko, a regulated Level 3 Immigration Adviser at 1 Step Ahead Immigration Services, a fee paying service, who works directly with people navigating their legal rights and responsibilities within the UK immigration and nationality legal system. Whilst his clients usually privately fund their cases, more often than not legal aid is unavailable to them.
Through Ankunda's work, he has supported families seeking to reunite with their children, often facing high Home Office fees, delays, and decisions that fail to properly protect family and private life. He also has a track record fundraising and providing pro bono work for exceptional situations including Status applications for the Windrush Generation (from the lead up to the discovery of the Scandal in March 2018), Ukrainian Scheme applications (from the outset of the war in February 2022), bereavement applications and UK based modern slavery work.
Funds raised will support:
- Regulated immigration work assisting families and individuals such as Alex and Priscilla on a case-by-case basis.
- Research and actions to promote fairness, equity, and justice within the UK Immigration and Nationality Law system.
At its core, the SJN initiative recognises that immigration and nationality decisions shape real lives and futures. Donate and sign-up for future fundraisers and actions.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 1st September 2026 at 12:00pm