Illogical visa rules

SIR – Following his letter (October 19) about his American wife’s difficulty in obtaining a UK visa, Commander Simon Rawlins will now be joined by her in Britain.

My brother’s Ugandan wife was refused an ordinary visitor’s visa to Britain earlier this year to attend her graduation ceremony and to help care for our ailing 91-year-old mother.

A Home Office official in Pretoria is apparently not convinced that she will return home to Uganda, where they both live. This is despite the fact that she was granted a student visa in 2016 to study for a masters (and returned home), and also that the Home Office had no objection to them getting married in Britain last year.

My brother has lived in Africa for over 30 years and, with his wife, is building a house in Entebbe. The Home Office’s excessive zeal to cut immigration sadly means that reasonable requests are being rejected for increasingly dubious reasons. Jeremy Gould

Poleymieux-au-mont-d’or, France

SIR – As a former naval officer, I rejoice that Commander Rawlins and his wife have been reunited. This matter would not have been resolved so swiftly without the intervention of The Daily Telegraph. Let us also rejoice that we still have a free press: one of our great safeguards against injustice. Michael Brotherton

Chippenham, Wiltshire