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Post by Dan Dare on Dec 29, 2023 14:34:39 GMT
In what has become a seasonal tradition as familiar as Santa Claus and a turkey dinner, a three-hankie job the Guardian recounts the tale of a South African who is languishing in Turkey and has done since the Home Office refused him permission to re-enter the UK a year ago on account of a drugs conviction. The kindly folk at Duncan Lewis solicitors – whose principal Amarpal Singh Gupta has been anointed ‘King of Legal Aid’ by The Times – have taken on his case, launching a demand for a judicial review of the Home Office’s handling of his case. A first attempt to extract him on human rights grounds failed since Turkey is not a signatory to the EcvHR hence the fallback to judicial review. Duncan Lewis is pleading that the Home Office’s position was not legal. “It’s been almost 12 months since Siyabonga was forcibly separated from his family. At the heart of this is a young British child, who will be without his father at Christmas as a result of the home secretary’s callous indifference.” Siyabonga told the Guardian that he can’t return to South Africa since all his family is now in the UK. Although resident in Chester since 2004 until his conviction in 2018 he never applied for British citizenship, which he probably would not get now anyway. So what does the team think? Do we support Duncan Lewis in its plea for this individual to be able to permanently re-join his extended family in the UK? Or should the Home Office prevail and, if family reunion is to take place, it should happen back in South Africa which is where entire brood originated in the first place? www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/father-stuck-in-turkey-applies-for-judicial-review-of-home-offices-handling-of-his-case |
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Post by jonksy on Dec 29, 2023 14:48:58 GMT
In what has become a seasonal tradition as familiar as Santa Claus and a turkey dinner, a three-hankie job the Guardian recounts the tale of a South African who is languishing in Turkey and has done since the Home Office refused him permission to re-enter the UK a year ago on account of a drugs conviction. The kindly folk at Duncan Lewis solicitors – whose principal Amarpal Singh Gupta has been anointed ‘King of Legal Aid’ by The Times – have taken on his case, launching a demand for a judicial review of the Home Office’s handling of his case. A first attempt to extract him on human rights grounds failed since Turkey is not a signatory to the EcvHR hence the fallback to judicial review. Duncan Lewis is pleading that the Home Office’s position was not legal. “It’s been almost 12 months since Siyabonga was forcibly separated from his family. At the heart of this is a young British child, who will be without his father at Christmas as a result of the home secretary’s callous indifference.” Siyabonga told the Guardian that he can’t return to South Africa since all his family is now in the UK. Although resident in Chester since 2004 until his conviction in 2018 he never applied for British citizenship, which he probably would not get now anyway. So what does the team think? Do we support Duncan Lewis in its plea for this individual to be able to permanently re-join his extended family in the UK? Or should the Home Office prevail and, if family reunion is to take place, it should happen back in South Africa which is where entire brood originated in the first place? www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/father-stuck-in-turkey-applies-for-judicial-review-of-home-offices-handling-of-his-caseI read an article the other day where Ruth Langford stated she was heartbroken.
I thought she had endured a bereavment but no she was heart broken because her sprog had gone to colledge FFS.
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Post by Hutchyns on Dec 29, 2023 15:41:34 GMT
For so many years we've been letting hundreds of thousands of migrants who are only too happy to get away from their families, come to Britain to enjoy our hotel standard hospitality plus the many other benefits. To then deprive someone who wants to do the opposite, return to living with hs family, to be with his parents, brothers and sisters, and his own young son, seems to be a warped sense of priorities that the UK Authorities are implementing.
And having now trained as a lorry driver, he should be able to earn a good living, and be able to support his family, which it wouldn't surprise me to learn the British taxpayer is currently doing due to this forced exile.
A cannabis offence ! Wouldn't he have taken the drug out of personal choice, and wouldn't anyone who bought cannabis from him have done so voluntarily ? And the Home Office officials keeping him out, won't three quarters of them be taking recreational cannabis every weekend ? And the guy has served his sentence for the drugs offence anyway.
Common sense should prevail and there are vast numbers who should be prevented from coming, or removed despite being already here, before we ever reach the stage of preventing (for over a year now) this young man from travelling back to Britain after a family holiday.
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Post by Dan Dare on Dec 29, 2023 16:33:25 GMT
^ Gosh. Are you one of dappy's sock-puppets? That could almost have been penned by the man himself from his distinctly un-diverse redoubt in the Far West of Devon.
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Dec 29, 2023 16:43:10 GMT
Sorry, I'm not quite seeing what duty we have to a foreign national criminal currently in a foreign country.
This would appear to be quite literally nothing to do with the UK.
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Post by Fairsociety on Dec 29, 2023 16:50:31 GMT
So he can't go back to Africa ...why?
The UK is every single young foreign male's destination, I wonder why?
Once they seed the young UK female population, their visa is almost certain.
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Post by Bentley on Dec 29, 2023 17:00:09 GMT
Our national identity has been knocked out of us over the years .
As there are no clear definitions of being ‘ British’ then anyone can be .
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Post by Dan Dare on Dec 29, 2023 17:08:27 GMT
It seems that the default legal assumption is that 'family reunion' always takes place in the UK, rather than elsewhere.
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Post by Dogburger on Dec 29, 2023 21:55:20 GMT
Sorry, I'm not quite seeing what duty we have to a foreign national criminal currently in a foreign country. This would appear to be quite literally nothing to do with the UK. Agreed , there are plenty of low life brits in foreign jails we should be wasting resources on before we start trying to help out foreign nationals . When and if he ends up back in South Africa his family should be waiting for him there . |
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Post by sheepy on Dec 31, 2023 7:46:29 GMT
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