Couple wins appeal for visa after Derry wife refuses to identify as British
UK government refused residence card after woman identified as Irish in application
Emma DeSouza and her husband, Jake on their wedding day in July 2015. Photograph: Emma DeSouza
A Derry woman and her American husband have won their appeal against the UK Home Office’s decision to reject their visa application after the woman refused to call herself British.
Emma DeSouza, from the town of Magherafelt in Co Derry, and her husband Jake from Los Angeles were married in Belfast in July 2015.