In response to the Don’t Deport Our Daddy campaign by The Argus (September 16), I was so pleased to hear the Home Office has agreed to grant Phil Sommerville’s visa for a further two years.

But I would like to point out that Australia has the link of the Queen and Prince Charles having had schooling there.

Now that it is obvious Phil has a growing family and wife who are British, surely he should be able to get British citizenship, allowing for the family to stay together instead of being put through more turmoil in two years’ time.

In 2003, I was writing a Hastings community column for The Argus when Yasar Dirki was trying to get asylum from Syria. He had many problems and suffered a lot of heartache at the time.

He, too, had a lot of people supporting him. Eventually he was granted asylum. He was a gentleman in his outlook. He is now a family man with a wife and three children.

I actually wrote to the Queen in support. I believe it was sent to the Home Office. Life is about keeping families together when happy, not parting them. The Home Office should allow genuine asylum-seekers to stay instead of causing hardship and heartache.

Josie Lawson, Stonehouse Drive, St Leonards