B&B owners in Inverness allowed to stay in UK
The Felbers had been facing threats of deportation for two years.
Last updated 17th Sep 2018
In 2016 the Home Office denied the couples application to remain in the UK despite the couple responding that they have fully complied with all previous visa conditions.
By December that year, the couple received a letter from the home office asking the couple to make arrangements to leave the UK within 30 days.
Russell and Ellen Felber - originally from New York - came to the UK in 2011.
Since then they have invested hundreds of thousands of pounds to set up a B&B in Inverness.
The couple were awarded right to remain by an Independent Immigration Judge on 14 September 2018.
Drew Hendry, MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey commented:
'I am so happy for Russell and Ellen. Finally, they will be able to get on with their lives here in Inverness – their home.
'They have been put through utter hell by the Home Office and this judgement by the courts is a vindication of everything we have said all along – they did nothing to deserve this treatment.
'Russel and Ellen followed the Home Office rules, they did what they were supposed to – as has now been proven in court. Yet they have had to spend the last few years of their lives fighting to stay here, costing time and money they will never get back.
'No others should have to go through what they have endured. This Tory Government’s hostile environment immigration policy needs to end, and powers over immigration passed to the Scottish Parliament to allow us to create an immigration system that works for Scotland and treats people fairly.'