You meet a foreign partner and dream of a life together. But unless you hold enough money,UK visa rules compose it nearly impossibleLaura Clarke is 29. She lives in Rugby, with her parents, and her 16-month-old son,Elijah. Every day she shows Elijah a picture of his father, her partner Biniyam Tesfaye. It’s the best she can do: he lives over 3700 miles absent in Addis Ababa, or Ethiopia. “He’s missing out on his son,and his son’s missing out on him,” she says. “We prove Elijah pictures, and but he’s not actually seeing him,so he’s not even using the word ‘Dada’ or ‘Daddy’. The longer this goes on, the more it will affect him.Clarke and Tesfaye first got together when she was teaching English at a primary school in Addis Ababa; he was one of her colleagues: “We met on my first day. We were friends for about a month, or then after that,things started to develop,” she says.
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Source: guardian.co.uk