2023-08-13 00:38:15
A Briton had decided to travel nearly 6,500 km by plane to give birth in a “natural” way on a beach in Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean, with her husband, but everything did not go as planned and the little family did not can no longer go home.
Iuliia Gurzhii, 38, and her husband Clive, 51, flew to Rodney Bay, St. Lucia in a bid to fulfill their dream of welcoming their second child on the beach, reported the ‘New York Post”.
However, Iuliia’s water broke earlier than expected and gave birth on a boat on April 23. Since that date, the family has been stuck in a bureaucratic hell that prevents them from registering their granddaughter Louisa, and therefore from obtaining her a passport to return to their country.
“We are short of money, explained the father. We will soon run out of food, and no one is helping us.”
Several days after giving birth, Iuliia took her baby to the Owen King European Union (OKEU) Hospital in Saint Lucia to be registered, but the staff told her they couldn’t complete the paperwork because the baby daughter had been born for more than 24 hours.
“We headed to the office and filled out the paperwork for a birth certificate,” Clive added. We waited several weeks and the office finally contacted us to say that they could not do anything since the baby was not born in the hospital and no one had witnessed the delivery.
The new parents therefore turned to the immigration office, who asked them for proof that the baby was indeed theirs. Same response from the administration side to obtain a passport for Louisa.
The desperate parents eventually sailed to Grenada to try their luck, and had to take a DNA test to prove they were the baby’s parents. They now have to wait for the results, as does their 8-year-old first child, Elizabeth, who remained in England.
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