The family's plight became headline news following the decision by the Home Office to refuse Andrea's relatives – her maternal grandparents, retired street trader Stanley Bwanya, 65, and Grace, 57, and aunt, Monalisa Faith, 21 – access to the UK amid fears they might abscond.
According to the Home Office communications department, they were refused visas for three reasons – they had not previously travelled out of Zimbabwe, they could not demonstrate a regular income, and there was a danger they would abscond.
Although he missed the premiere a pro-Nazi media campaign defaming Chaplin as an "anti-German warmonger" and an "American film-Jew" forced him to abscond to Vienna ahead of time Geraldine is convinced the visit left a mark on her father.
EVEN in a country where thousands of public officials and private businessmen abscond with millions of dollars each year, it is not every day that the head of the third-largest bank is turfed out for graft.
Teachers abscond, and children skip school (unless they receive UN food aid for turning up).
Mr Cameron has made some concessions: it is now a bit easier to get a British visa in China, and he backed down on a mad plan to demand large bonds from visitors from six emerging markets, lest they abscond.
Yet those who abscond rarely remain free for long.
New measures to make it harder to abscond are said to be in place, which suggests that more fighters have been trying to do so.In the light of this, IS's ever more shocking propaganda tactics, such as burning a captured Jordanian pilot alive and bulldozing the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud, can be read as the sort of lashing out that masks weakness.
Whether this latter category includes the tabloids was left unclear.The new government policy means that more asylum-seekers will be locked up for "administrative" reasons in other words if civil servants decide that there is a chance they will abscond.
Prosecutors said there was a significant chance he might abscond if granted bail.
They assume it will close in a night and they will be able to abscond with the cash, since no investor will demand a cut of non-existent profits.
