Brussels, Belgium Six-year-old Mohamed Barrak Diallo Bangoura poses with his new passport and his godfather, Abdoul Dialo, in front of the British embassy. The Home Office had instructed Belgian police that Mohamed’s passport was no longer valid and had to be revoked. Members of the British and European parliaments had demanded that the boy receive a new travel document to join his mother

Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA