The Home Office is trying to separate some great-grandparents from their British family by forcing them to return to Iran.
Mozaffar Saberi and Rezvan Habibimarand, who are 83 and 73 years old respectively, have been living in Edinburgh since 1978 when they bought a flat together and are extremely close to their tight-knit family.
Between them, they have four children, 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild who, if they were made to leave the country, would feel their absence heavily.
This is because the family are dependent on each other; not only do the couple’s children support them daily, but Mozaffar and Rezvan act as co-parents to one of their grandchildren.
As reported by the Guardian, the teenage boy has severe autism and requires constant supervision, which his grandparents help with on a day-to-day basis to enable his mum – a single parent – to continue working as an NHS nurse.
Without their constant support, it’s unlikely the boy’s mum would be able to continue working. Not only that, but separating the teenager from his grandparents would have an extremely detrimental effect on both him and his mother, according to a chartered psychologist who has written a report provided to the Home Office.
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