Japan allows Pinay, daughter to stay with Kurdish man

MANILA, Philippines – Japan’s Ministry of Justice on Tuesday reversed a deportation order that would have separated a Filipino woman and her seven-year-old daughter from her Kurdish husband who have overstayed their visa in that country.

The Mainichi Daily News reported in its online edition that 32-year-old Taskin, a Kurdish man with Turkish citizenship, his Filipino wife Beltran, 41, and their daughter, Zilan, would soon have their special residence permits.

The family that resides in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture is on provisional release status.

The justice ministry’s order overturned its earlier decision that upheld a 2004 ruling by the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau deporting Taskin to Turkey and Beltran and Zilan to the Philippines.

The report said the decision came after Tokyo’s High Court suggested a settlement in view of the family’s appeal after the district court rejected a petition to reverse the justice ministry’s deportation order.

The Tokyo District Court turned down in March last year the family's appeal to nullify the deportation order. In November, the Tokyo High Court proposed a settlement of the case.

Taskin and Beltran met in 1998 when their visas had already expired. They got married after Zilan was born, the report said.

"After the high court proposed a settlement, we determined that this would be the best way to grant them special residence permission from a humanitarian perspective," the report quoted Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama as saying in a press conference following a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Taskin said in appealing the immigration bureau’s deportation order that he could be persecuted if he returns to Turkey because he had refused to serve in the military.

"If we were deported, it would be difficult for us to live together because of religious and other reasons," the report quoted Taskin. - GMANews.TV

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