Parents appeal to Home Office after daughter left homeless in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents, who have been saving to pay for UK visa application, say situation is now an emergencyA distraught couple are appealing to the Home Office to expedite a visa decision and speedily grant permission for their eight-year-old daughter to join them in the UK after Hurricane...
<p>Lati-Yana Brown’s parents, who have been saving to pay for UK visa application, say situation is now an emergency</p><p>A distraught couple are appealing to the Home Office to expedite a visa decision and speedily grant permission for their eight-year-old daughter to join them in the UK after Hurricane Melissa left her homeless and destitute in Jamaica.</p><p>Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown is being cared for by her grandmother in Cash Hill, Hanover, a part of the island that was <a href="https://jis.gov.jm/hanover-residents-share-sobering-accounts-of-survival-after-hurricane-melissa/">badly damaged</a> by the storm. Her Jamaican mother, Kerrian Bigby, came to the UK to join her British father, Jerome Hardy, in April 2023. The couple married earlier this year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/07/parents-appeal-to-home-office-after-daughter-left-homeless-in-jamaica-by-hurricane-melissa">Continue reading...</a>
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