We meet fifty five year old Dara Singh, a first generation immigrant from the Punjab who has been in the UK for ten years and lives and works in West Bromwich. Four years ago his application for his wife and four children to join him was refused. We see Mr Singh at work in the foundry. We then see his brother's drapery business: Uppal Drapers in West Bromwich. His brother explains why his initial application failed but his circumstances have since changed and appealed against the decision one year go.
In Coventry we meet Major Singh who lives with his wife and four children. His eldest son has been refused entry. Bob Hall talks to social worker Mrs Joshi who suggests that his son should be allowed entry on compassionate grounds.
Hall also talks to the Labour MP for Coventry South East, William Wilson, about the huge number of similar cases. Mr Wilson sites the complexity of the cases and the vast number of appeals as reasons for the long delays.
Attention then shifts to arranged marriages, which are also affected by immigration rules when the bride or bridegroom lives abroad. It took over two years for Mohammed Bahtee's brother to secure permission for him to enter the country so that he could marry Safia Hanif, an Asian Briton who was born in Leamington Spa,
The next interviewee is with 16 year old Karinder Kaur whose fiancée, whom she has yet to meet, has been refused entry.
The final interviewee is with Jass Shandhu from Leicester who is happy with her marriage, which was arranged in the traditional way. We see Jass in a grey open plan office with men at desks and her wearing a red saree. The item ends with library pictures of black and Asian children in a school playground in Wolverhampton and mute library shots inside a temple and people walking on a street as Bob Hall reports that Asian communities in Britain are concerned about the possibility that rules will be tightened even further.
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