 A British mum-to-be who flew 4,000 miles across the world to give birth on a beach is now 'stranded' off the coast of Grenada with her four month old baby. Iuliia Gurzhii, 38, and husband, Clive, 51, say they 'feel like prisoners' after they were unable to register their newborn's birth or apply for a passport. The couple left Tameside, Manchester, and travelled to Rodney Bay, St Lucia, so Iuliia could fulfil her dream of the most 'natural' birth on a beach there. But ever since baby Louisa was born on the beach on April 23, 2023 the couple have been locked in a bureaucratic battle to get her home. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video To make matters worse, Clive and Iuliia left their eight-year-old daughter Elizabeth, at home in the UK while they made the trip because they couldn't get her passport renewed. Initially they were told by a hospital they couldn't register her birth because she was more than 24 hours old. Then an immigration office said they needed proof the baby was theirs, before a passport office said they couldn't help because the couple had no proof of where Louisa was born. And now they claim the UK High Commission said they needed a DNA test – which they are still waiting to get the results for. Feeling 'stranded and abandoned' and running out of money, the pair say they don't know how they will get back to the UK. Clive, a sports coach, from Tameside, Manchester, said: 'We have been passed around different agencies and nobody will help us. 'We are running out of money. We will soon run out of food, and nobody is helping us. The couple are unable to leave as they have no way of proving the baby is theirs (Picture: SWNS) 'We are essentially stateless – we are more than abandoned. We are prisoners in a country that we are not allowed to leave.' The couple){kind=link}
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A British mum-to-be who flew 4,000 miles across the world to give birth on a beach is now ‘stranded’ off the coast of Grenada with her four month old baby.
Iuliia Gurzhii, 38, and husband, Clive, 51, say they ‘feel like prisoners’ after they were unable to register their newborn’s birth or apply for a passport.
The couple left Tameside, Manchester, and travelled to Rodney Bay, St Lucia, so Iuliia could fulfil her dream of the most ‘natural’ birth on a beach there.
But ever since baby Louisa was born on the beach on April 23, 2023 the couple have been locked in a bureaucratic battle to get her home.