Ms Kogut, from Kyiv, said she thought she would be in Birmingham for just a “few months” but now wants to stay in the UK’s second city, where she has rebuilt her life.
“The process has been very difficult,” she explained. “Three years feels like 10 years at least.
“It’s horrible. We still don’t know what is going to happen with Ukraine [or] whether it will even exist.”
The Home Office said the conflict was “unpredictable” in nature, and it would continue to keep its Ukraine schemes under review.