article_snippet: A high-flying academic who travels the world as a Government adviser is set to be deported from Britain under 'barmy' new visa laws - because Dr Miwa Hirono is out of Britain more than 180 days a year.
article_snippet: Set to be deported: Miwa Hirono with Miwa Hirono husband, Peter Trebilco, 61, and one-year-old son Tada, must leave Britain under 'barmy' new visa laws .
article_snippet: And despite the fact Dr Hirono does research for a Government-funded organisation and Dr Hirono baby son was born in Britain, the Home Office has decided to deport her.
article_snippet: Today, Dr Hirono, who lives in Beeston, Notts., with her husband Peter Trebilco, 61, and their one-year-old son Tada, said: 'It came as a massive, utter shock. '
article_snippet: But when applying to extend Dr Hirono visa last March, Dr Hirono was banned and told Dr Hirono would be deported because of the foreign travel aspect of Dr Hirono job.
article_snippet: In December, Dr Hirono won an appeal against the Home Office with a judge suggesting it would not be in the national interest to deport someone who had 'made a significant and profound contribution to the academic framework of higher education in this country'.
article_snippet: Unsympathetic: Government officials told Dr Hirono Dr Hirono could keep in touch with friends in the UK via skype after ruling Dr Hirono private life should be given 'little weight' Philip Cowley, professor of parliamentary government at the university, said: 'It is pure madness for the government to be driving out an expert on what is probably the most important foreign policy challenge of the next decade. '
article_snippet: Dr Hirono's local MP, Anna Soubry, even wrote to Home Secretary Theresa May asking Home Secretary Theresa May to consider the decision, but no action was taken.
article_snippet: A Home Office spokesperson said: 'Ms Hirono's application for indefinite leave to remain was refused in July 2014 because Ms Hirono had spent more than 180 days outside the UK.'
article_snippet: Government officials told Ms Hirono Ms Hirono could keep in touch with friends in the UK via skype after ruling Ms Hirono private life should be given 'little weight'.
highlights_snippet: Dr Miwa Hirono made in 2012 denies migrant visas to those out UK for over 180 days .
  
highlights_snippet: Despite working for a Government-funded group, Dr Miwa Hirono must leave Britain .
  