Home Office meeting for Glasgow 'Hunger Strike' family

A family has been granted a meeting with Home Office officials after staging a hunger strike outside a Glasgow immigration centre. The Kamils, originally from Iraq, say they have been waiting 14 years for a decision about their legal status.

They want the Home Office to rule on their request for permanent residency, saying the uncertainty over their status was affecting their work and study plans.

The family of six began a protest on Wednesday evening outside Home Office premises in Brand Street.

Serbaz Kamil, 32, who runs an online business said: We want the Home Office to give us some answers, to do something.

We have been in the country for long enough to not even think about returning back home.''

He added: I believe we have done a lot for the country. My brother has represented Scotland as a boxer. Another brother graduated as an engineer.

My sister wants to study law in Scotland. I have a successful business in Scotland.''

A Home Office spokeswoman said: We are currently reviewing the family's application and we have invited them to a meeting to discuss their cases.''