Comfort Olufunmilayo Olawo, 82, spent decades flying between UK and Nigeria on tourist visas every six months
“It will be nice to have a rest at last,” said Comfort Olufunmilayo Olawo, who has spent the last 50 years commuting between the UK and Nigeria.
After racking up around 300,000 air miles and spending thousands of pounds on flights and visa fees, the 82-year-old Windrush-generation grandmother who originally settled in the UK almost 60 years ago has finally been granted permission to stay here.
Olawo first arrived in the UK in 1966 and in December of that year married Emmanuel Layiwola Olawo, a quantity surveyor, at a ceremony in Islington, north London. Both were granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK. She had several jobs in London, including one at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers where she worked as a typist.
“I was a very good typist and I loved my job,” she said.
