Osama bin Laden's son is desperate to live in Britain and is even prepared to take his fight for a visa to the highest legal authority in Europe, his wife has revealed.

Omar bin Laden, 26, was recently in the news for tying the knot with 52-year-old granny Zaina al Sabah bin Laden, formerly Jane Felixe-Browne, whom he had met in Egypt.

Now, the couple wants to live in Cheshire where the five-time divorcee Felixe-Browne owns a plush home.

Felixe-Browne told a TV channel that her husband had passed all the necessary immigration tests, but said she was ninety nine per cent sure his application would be rejected because his father was the Al Qaida chief.

"We applied before Christmas and we don't know if we have been refused. It has taken this long and there's no definite answer and no real refusal. We think 99 per cent that it is going to be a refusal though there has been no official letter. We already have an Member of European Parliament working with us, and an immigration lawyer," she said.

"If we get a clear refusal, we're going to go to appeal and if that's refused we will go to the (European) court of human rights because there's no reason he shouldn't be allowed into the country."

"He (Omar) has never done anything wrong. We will go to the top and eventually get into Britain," the British media quoted her as saying.