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Neal and Nandani
were granted temporary visas
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Twins born to their Indian grandmother in an unusual
surrogacy case have flown home after months of legal
wrangling.
Neal and Nandani Nagla
were allowed back to the family home in Ilford, in the
London Borough of Redbridge, after being granted
one-year visas.
While parents Lata and
Aakash Nagla are British, under UK law the surrogate
mother, Mrs Nagla's mother, is the legal parent.
The Naglas may have to
adopt their own children to guarantee them citizenship.
Mrs Nagla cannot carry
children because of a rare condition known as Rokitansky
syndrome, but her eggs were fertilised in a test tube
using her husband's sperm.
She looked for a
surrogate mother in the UK and India without success
before asking her mother Rhadha Patel, 44, who initially
refused but later changed her mind.
These types of cases are not common
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Fertility treatment was carried out in the western
Indian state of Gujarat and the twins were born six
months ago.
Paternal grandfather
Natu Nagla told BBC London: "We were elated, we were
really happy that finally God had listened to our
prayers."
The twins have now been
allowed back to the UK after lengthy negotiations
involving lawyers, Ilford MP Mike Gapes, the Home Office
and the British Consulate in India.
But the unusual nature
of their case has stretched British surrogacy laws which
say they are not automatically recognised as British
citizens.
A Home Office
spokeswoman said: "These types of cases are not common."
The Naglas may now have
to adopt their own children in order to get them
recognised as British citizens.
Or they could seek a
parental order under the 1990 Human Embryology and
Fertilisation Act.
Once legally recognised
as the parents, they could apply for citizenship for the
children after they have lived in the UK for a
qualifying period, a process which could take five
years.
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