An Indian man is challenging British immigration laws which block non-English speakers from coming to live in Britain and says that he hopes many other people will come if he wins

Vali Chapti, an Indian farmer who wants to join his wife in Leicester, also insisted that he would never learn English. He says that he could easily get by without English because there were many Gujarati speakers in Leicester and it would be the main language where he would live. The 57-year-old also branded Britain’s immigration system racist and discriminatory and said that his human rights had been breached in a disgraceful way by rules introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May requiring immigrants to have a basic command of English. His wife Rashida, 54, has begun a court challenge funded by legal aid against the rules, which are aimed at ensuring that immigrants could integrate into British society. Chapti said he was confident his case would be successful and added that hoped to bring one of his sons with him to Britain.