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Similarly, Tanya, a very young woman, entered on a family reunion visa and lived with her aunt, who was like a mother to her, for the first year. When her circumstances changed, she claimed asylum, as she was unable to return to her country of nationality due to fear of persecution. She, too, was granted refugee status and then settlement, but when she came to apply for citizenship recently, she was refused on account of alleged illegal entry and failure to make a claim for asylum as soon as was reasonably practicable after her arrival in the UK.