Kathleen Poole, a British 74-year-old care home resident, was facing deportation from Sweden.
The grandmother-of-four has been living in a care home in Sweden for the last ten yearsSweden has "placed on hold" the deportation of a British grandmother with Alzheimer's, her family have told the BBC.post-Brexit was rejected.
Grandmother-of-four Mrs Poole, who is from Macclesfield, Cheshire, applied for the right to remain in Sweden, where she movedBut her application was turned down in September 2022, despite the fact she is bedbound, has spent the last 10 years in a care home, and has no family she is in contact with in the UK.
They have been offered support to make a new application for a passport by the Foreign Office, Mrs Poole's family told the BBC, but fear power of attorney arrangements in the UK mean they will be unsuccessful."A lot of British people are actually being sent back to the UK, which is not ok but they're healthy."They're moving a sick person and her health can deteriorate even more by moving her.
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