A Sudanese woman initially refused asylum has been allowed to stay in the UK because she is married to her cousin.
After Isra Abdallah Ibrahim’s asylum bid was refused, she claimed deportation would breach her rights to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), because she would be separated from her husband.
He was already in the UK and had been granted refugee status, and the Home Office believed they had only married so she could later join him.
Mrs Ibrahim claimed they had married in a ‘customary Islamic marriage’ in Sudan in 2011, but British officials could find
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