article_snippet: But Home Office immigration laws now state that people working in UK on a migrant visa cannot be out of Britain for more than 180 days each year.
article_snippet: My Australian husband quit My Australian husband job to join me in UK as a family.
article_snippet: They changed the visa rule in 2012 and have applied it retrospectively to my travel in 2009 and 2010. '
article_snippet: Instead she has taken a job at a university in Kyoto, Japan, and the family are leaving the UK on March 29.
article_snippet: But that ruling was later overturned and immigration bosses confiscated the family's passports a year ago.
article_snippet: Who would want to stop their live elsewhere and move everything to the UK only to be kicked out after five years.'
highlights_snippet: Rule to be applied retrospectively so it takes Dr Miwa Hirono previous trip into account .
  