Iuliia Gurzhii and her husband Clive say they 'feel like prisoners' as they have now been stuck in the Caribbean for months
A woman who flew 4,000 miles across the world to give birth on a beach is now stranded with her four-month-old baby. Iuliia Gurzhii, 38, and husband, Clive, 51, say they "feel like prisoners" after becoming stuck on the coast of Grenada.
To make matters worse, their eight-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, remains at home in the UK because they couldn't get her passport renewed. Initially, they were told by a hospital they couldn't register their baby's birth because she was more than 24 hours old. "We will soon run out of food, and nobody is helping us. We are essentially stateless - we are more than abandoned. We are prisoners in a country that we are not allowed to leave."
Clive said: "We headed over to the registry office and filled in the forms for a birth certificate. We waited for a couple of weeks and the registry office came back and said they couldn't do anything as the baby wasn't born in the hospital and nobody witnessed the birth." After arriving in Grenada, Clive and Iuliia went to the UK High Commission in St George for help. They claim they were told they would have to do a DNA test to prove the baby is theirs.
Iuliia, a yoga teacher, said: "I can't sleep at night. It is traumatising. I am scared of the night it is hurricane season we have storms now - it is traumatising for us all. I can't stop crying, we are begging for help - we have been abandoned."
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