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Judi Lynn

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Fri Apr 6, 2018, 11:50 PM Apr 2018

The Latest: UK rejects visa for poisoned spy's niece

Source: Associated Press


Updated 11:34 am, Friday, April 6, 2018

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy and his daughter in Britain (all times local):

5:30 p.m.

Britain's Home Office says it has rejected a visa application for the niece of a former Russian spy poisoned by a nerve agent in the southwestern city of Salisbury.

The authorities said in a statement Friday that Viktoria Skripal's visa application was denied on the grounds that it "did not comply with the immigration rules." It did not elaborate.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury on March 4 and have been in a British hospital ever since.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Guinea-pigs-cat-also-victims-of-spy-12811507.php

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The Latest: UK rejects visa for poisoned spy's niece (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2018 OP
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