Siblings living in direct provision in Cork who hope to become doctors and computer scientists have had their deportation postponed pending a review
Cork-based students Zubair, Umair and Mutjuba Khan faced deportation from Ireland as early as tomorrow afternoon, alongside their brother, UCC Sanctuary scholarship student Hamza, their sister Shazadi and parents Mubeen and Hina.
Aaron Wolfe, Principal of Coláiste Éamann Rís where the three youngest boys attend secondary school, said that Fine Gael deputy leader Simon Coveney contacted him this evening to say that Mr Flanagan plans to review the case. The family's father Mubeen, fled to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan to escape persecution in 1982. His wife Hina Mubeen is also from Pakistan but their daughter Shazadi and sons were born in Saudi Arabia.
Another law introduced in 2017, resulted in Mubeen losing his job in a drapers – unable to pay their taxes the family faced deportation to Pakistan which they had already fled from originally. As a result the family were forced to leave Saudi Arabia, arriving in Ireland through England.