A 15-year-old schoolgirl has been ordered out of the country by immigration officials.

Bingley Grammar School student Camille Beutler is facing forced deportation to the United States - the country of her birth - if she refuses to leave voluntarily.

Her mother, Lee-Ann Korpal, 38, likewise a US citizen, has also been refused the right to remain in Britain - even though she has a British husband and three children with him, all of whom hold British passports.

Last night the family, who live in Main Street, Wilsden, were desperately seeking last-ditch legal advice to try to avoid being separated.

Camielle has no right of appeal against the decision by the Home Office's Border and Immigration Agency.

She has until today to inform officials of her arrangements to leave the UK.

Mrs Korpal can appeal, which allows her to temporarily remain in the UK, but she said she would have to go with Camielle as they have no surviving family members in the US, otherwise her daughter would have to go into foster care.

Mrs Korpal and her Shipley-born husband Nick, who works for an aviation security firm, have been together for almost 15 years. They were married in Las Vegas in July 2001 where they lived until the family moved to Goa, India, in 2004.

The three children they have together - Oksana, 13, Ayanna, eight, and Nick, seven - were issued with British passports before they left India for Britain in 2006. But the family insist the Consulate Office then advised them that Mrs Korpal and Camielle should apply for their citizenship on entering this country.

Since then the family say they have contacted immigration officials on numerous occasions only to be told "conflicting" information.

Mrs Korpal said the Home Office's decision to refuse them residency will leave the family "split completely down the middle".

She said: "I just don't see how they can throw a kid of 15 out of the country on her own, with nowhere to go and nobody to look after her.
"Her life is here and she is still just a kid.

There would be no way I would let her go over there on her own. I would have to leave with her and then my husband would have to quit his job so that there would be someone to look after our younger children."

Mrs Korpal said Britain's immigration laws seemed to be in a muddle - even to those who enforce them.

"It is like the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing," she said.

"In my personal opinion the Home Office has a huge problem. I understand why there are so many illegal aliens working here in the UK because it's not really that hard to do so.

"I was given a National Insurance number even though I'm not allowed to work and I tried my best to explain that to the people at the Job Centre."

A Border and Immigration Agency spokesman said Mrs Korpal and Camielle will have to re-apply for entry to the UK when they are in the US.

He said: "The Government is determined to protect the UK's immigration system and marriage laws from abuse, and in order for an applicant to be settled as a spouse they must hold a valid UK entry clearance for entry in the correct capacity.

"Applicants and their dependants who do not meet the requirements for leave to remain as a spouse will be expected to return home and apply for entry clearance in the correct capacity in order to join their spouse in the UK."

Shipley Conservative MP Philip Davies has been supporting the family, who live in his constituency.

He said: "The whole immigration system is an absolute shambles so in their desperate quest to look like they are clamping down on it, they are going after the easy targets - decent people who follow the rules.

"What people want are people in the Government to tackle the problems of illegal immigration, not honest people like this who are here and should be here."

Chris Taylor, head of Bingley Grammar School, said Camielle was an "intelligent and popular" pupil.

He said: "Camielle has settled in well since she joined the school last year.

She's an intelligent and popular young lady who has been looking forward to achieving good GCSE grades in the summer."



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The murderer of headteacher Phillip Lawrence will be allowed to stay in this country on his release from prison. Why? Because it would be against his human right to ejoy a family life if he were deported. Clearly this girl does not enjoy that privilege. Should she kill someone to get it?