Adedayo Victor Daodu came to the UK for the London 2012 Games as a member of the Nigerian boxing squad and decided to stay. The 25-year-old was locked up last week at Dungavel immigration removal centre in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, and told he faces being returned to Lagos.
Before the 2012 Olympics, Victor signed up for the British Army. After returning to his homeland, he was sent a letter inviting him to return to the UK for recruitment.
After claiming to have passed written and physical tests, he applied to extend his visa so he could stay in Britain before enlisting. The couple moved to Salford in July 2013.
But Victor was soon told that due to new guidelines, his application to join the Army had been refused.
Robyn and Victor applied for asylum in a bid to stay together and claim they were told by the Home Office they could get married pending the application.
They assumed Victor’s UK residency would not be a problem.
After marrying in April last year, his asylum claim was refused in three months later.
The couple say the Home Office, in a letter to their solicitors, have told them they should move to Nigeria.
Robyn says they have spent £4,000 in legal fees after a number of failed appeals. Victor was most recently refused leave to stay in March.
In April, he spent two weeks in the immigration centre, but was released after an appeal.
Oldham East and Saddleworth MP, Debbie Abrahams, was able to help get Victor released from the centre last Thursday.
The couple are now awaiting a reply to another appeal.
Immigration rules mean that anyone applying for a visa as the spouse of a British citizen had to have the legal right to be here for at least the next six months when they got married.
They also have to be able to prove they can support themselves financially.
Robyn, 27, who lives with Victor in Oldham, said: “It took the army a year to tell him he couldn’t join.
“The Home Office should have told him he couldn’t stay a long time ago if that’s what was always going to happen.
"I don’t understand why they’ve only started detaining him now after we’ve set up a life, got married and I’ve become pregnant.
“The communication just hasn’t been there.
"The stress is unbearable. None of this would have happened if not for the army’s slowness in letting Victor know about the change in the acceptance rules.
“I need him and his unborn child needs him.”
Victor said: “I just want to stay here and do what’s right for my baby and Robyn.”
The Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.
Source: UK Mirror
63 comments:
True love?
This guy must be really good in bed
Naija guys sha and these desperate women
For the guy mind..
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OK.. from the look of things,na family affairs, not my business! OkBye.
It sounds like genuine love but d British system can be brutal and hard hearted. I know this first hand so all d best mate!
Long story.. They should just allow him to stay since he's already married.. Biko am pleading on his behalf .. Country is still hard until Buhari brings in the so called promised #Change...
Love.
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Ok....
No matter jare..if dem nor let u stay oya Mk u n ur wife cum bck house der's no place lik home abi u dey 4get?? *touge out** haba wetin u say Mk I talk again? Check nah nor b lie I talk ooo lol
Lucky chap. Linda take note!
So nigeria is that terrible,dt she cnt move here...kk
True love...I mean frm the woman thou
I hope he is for real. Let's him not take advantage of Robyn for his own selfish interests. All the best.
#TeamBlessed#
HMMMMMMMMM I SMEL RATS !!ALL THIS ASYLUM SEEKERS EVERYWHERE!!NAA ONLY GOD WILL SAVE HIM HOPE IT WORKS OUT FOR HIM.JC
God will see him through
Nawa o
Correct woman.
Nawa o
UK is fucked!
God will see him tru
Awwww! Quite heart rendering.
I pray he's allowed to stay.
~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
Na so...
Na so...
When a woman loves a man.
Ur lawyer should evoke Article 8 right to family life, d woman being a white can get him his stay without much stress if dis article is evoked, asylum seeking puts him under d economic immigrant scheme there by reducing his chances of staying in d UK
Lool. Cameron no won hear o! Things don dey over tough now!
Sorry oo... But Nigeria army is recruiting.
Best thing is to move to Nigeria with him so you all stay as one big happy family.
Fake wedding..
Eyaaa
what a pity!
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See love o
It is well my Dear with the round face
I pray it works..
I pray it works..
Sad, all the best Victor
Hmmmm this is serious. I feel for Robyn so much
Story mumu white woman.you really think he loves you talk less abt caring for you.
All the best in her petition.
Linda cogitate
Instead make he follow team come back to Naija, he deflected to marry Oyibo for obodo Oyibo. Abeg deport am back to Naija bo. We must all work together to salvage this our Naija. Sorry Robyn (wife). Make you follow your husband come him country o. Naija go still better.
Where bad leadership pushed nigerians to..we do ridiculous things just to stay abroad to the extent of joining a foreign army.i pray buhari can make this change visible
Victor b proud of ur modaland
Come home
Wow! I pray all goes well wit them, and he should b granted stay over there. I wiish d wife safe delivery in adv.
All the best to them. Linda take note!
So help u God!!
It's d fault if d military n wats wiv ds constant change of policies...som1 in UK policy making is really cracking down on foreigners
Uhm arrangee gone bad,sorry bro,nigeria needs u too,we know it's not love nor responsibility that's keeping u there,its a way to escape naija hardship, change is here,come home bro,lets build naija together. Enuf wife awaiting u here,thing wey never reach, u na go still carry go dey give oyinbo woman
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Does immigration bastards
Another wahala,hopefuly d right authorities ll look in2 his situation
May the love you have for each other see you through
Was the guy staying llegally in the UK ?. the guy decide to stay or him run go hide when others dey come back?. Linda abeg help me ask am.
Oyibo wahala too much
Ok
@ treasures 8:12 am. Bad belle go kill u.
Hmmmmmmmmm, the twists of life!
Didn't you hear his wife is pregnant?? Wetin your nija babes/ your country get to offer?? Abeg think before saying shit
@treasures....u dnt like pples progress....if it were u or ur relative, how wud u feel? U sound wicked...
Ogbeni (Mr. Man) it's not a must that you remain in UK
I think it's really annoying and degrading for one (ESPECIALLY A NIGERIAN: THE GIANTS OF AFRICA) to be begging to stay in another Man's Country. The idea of you been locked up like a common criminal because you wanna stay in UK is really sickening.
Moreover it's not like you have an investment there you are trying to protect aside your Oyinbo wife. My Guy if they insist on denying you stay, please carry your Oyinbo wife back to Nigeria, Hustle well and you will live life in Nigeria like "awon ara Foreign" (Foreigners).
If She insist on staying over: OYO for Her.
BUT PLEASE DON'T BEG TO REMAIN IN UK...It's synonymous to MODERN DAY SLAVERY
The UK government should clamp down on their extradition laws
Lool, he's part of th ppl who absconded during the olympics😂😭😂
Pls let her hubby stay with her, don't depot him.
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