A Vietnamese girl will walk down that aisle alone after her household had been declined visitor visas to New Zealand in a move labelled “nasty and vindictive” by her husband-to-be.
Pham? Thu Thuong? Nguyen, called Thuong, and her fiance, Kirk Robertson, referred to as Seamus, are becoming hitched on Saturday during the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Oxford, North Canterbury.
But her mom, two siblings, brother-in-law and niece will never be able to help make the ceremony after Immigration New Zealand (INZ) declined their visa applications regarding the grounds that they had restricted incentives to come back to Vietnam.
“She ended up being distraught after hearing her household would not be coming, ” Robertson said, talking from their home where he and Thuong have already been residing since December.
“It’s the day that is only her life she is ever planning to get hitched and as a result of some bureaucratic glitch they have been disallowing her the chance to have her family members right here on her wedding. [Read more...]