Immigration lawyers are urgently working to lodge applications while the scheme remains open in cases of people who have been granted refugee status. She and her husband had been pinning all their hopes on a family reunion application and had been planning a future together in the UK. He said: “This is going to impact on every single asylum seeker who is hoping to reunite with their family. What kept me going was that I could reach safety, bring my wife here and then we could build a future together. “I knew that the journey I went on from Afghanistan to the UK had a 99% risk of death.