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After a six-month immigration battle, test-tube twins born to their maternal grandmother in Gujarat have been allowed to enter Britain to be re-united with their parents.
The twins, a boy and a girl, made history when they were born in a fertility clinic in Gujarat after their 46-year-old maternal grandmother, a mother of four, agreed to carry her daughter's embryo.
The twins were not given British passports because they were born in India and their host mother was not a British citizen. However, their father's family has been British for four generations.
The twins had to wait for six months before being granted a temporary visa to visit their parents in Ilford, east London.
Their visa will last a year, but when it expires they could be forced to leave the country, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.
On Monday, the twins' paternal grandfather spoke of the family's anger and confusion at the treatment of the children. "We cannot be sure about the babies' future in this country," he told the London Evening Standard.