https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-61014365

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A Ukrainian family has given up on moving to the UK after claiming their application took too long to process.

When the war in Ukraine started, Anton Mandziuk drove from his home in Rutland to the Polish border to collect his cousin and her family.

He then applied for them to live with him, but after weeks of waiting they have decided to go to Ireland instead.

He said it was a "difficult and tiring" process and at one point, his family even considered giving up and going back to Ukraine.

"It's been a really, really difficult journey.

"I've been filling in these ginormous application forms, which are still to be processed," he said.

His relatives had permission to stay anywhere in the European Union and spent the first few weeks in the Netherlands and Belgium.

With their UK application taking so long to be processed, they decided to go to Ireland because English is the first language there.

He said they had been warmly welcomed and were staying at a hotel with other Ukrainian families.

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So that's at least one high-profile success for Patel's "not welcome here" policy and all the obstacles she's put in place to discourage Ukrainian refugees coming here.

Her "hostile environment" for foreigners is working just fine. At least one family will be someone else's problem and not ours.