The Home Office official said that because Alina is over 18 she is not being granted permission to come to the UK as a dependant of her parents.
They’re not counting her as a dependent child because she’s an adult, but it seems to ignore the fact that her parents care for her in some way
sorta but not.
The application was based on compassionate reasons. That potential exclusion is written into the law specifically to allow exceptions like this.
The HMRC specifically responded that no evidence of a compelling compassionate reason was provided.
So it is fair to assume someone in HMRC saw an application for an autistic 19yo dependent where the parents had stated she was not in a mental state to self-care. And decided that was not a valid reason to make the compassionate exception.
