{"id":90034,"date":"2026-06-01T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90034"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:34:38","slug":"home-office-sends-letters-to-children-as-young-as-five-saying-they-must-leave-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/01\/home-office-sends-letters-to-children-as-young-as-five-saying-they-must-leave-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA24ybXt.img?w=768&h=614&m=6&x=143&y=287&s=754&d=367\" alt=\"Rasika Samarasinghe, a care worker who arrived in 2022, with his wife and children \u2013 who have now been told they must leave. Photograph: Courtesy of Samarasinghe family\" width=\"692\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children as young as five who are living legally in the UK are being told by the Home Office they must leave the country even if their parents have been given permission to remain. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/home-office-sends-letters-to-children-as-young-as-five-saying-they-must-leave-uk\/ar-AA24xaXw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a1dcdbd8479428ebd4917e720374cbb&ei=14\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children as young as five who are living legally in the UK are being told by the Home Office they must leave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-migration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Home-Office1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90035,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034\/revisions\/90035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}