Literally first Google result says not to travel if your application hasn’t been decided, she even had a lucky escape a few months before and the daft woman still risked it. Now you think the news paper will help?
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I love how we’ve had more immigration in the past 20 years than the 2000 years before combined.
Yet one person gets deported to Spain for breaking the conditions of her visa, and the Ragtag Guardian presents it as proof of the FAR RIGHT coming to power. They are ridiculous propagandists.
Weird. This was posted before and got removed I guess? Anyway, she understood the rules and then broke them. It was the correct decision by the home office. The guardian tries to bury it, but her documents weren’t correct. She knew exactly what she was doing and she knew it was wrong. She even posted about it on Reddit and everybody told her she was wrong, but she tried anyway.
This is the exact same situation as brits living in Spain who didn’t bother to get their shit in order, and this sub laughed at them. If this women had done things correctly she wouldn’t have an issue.
It’s bait from the guardian, as always.
You know the system is completely broken when a Spanish woman can get deported this easily but we can’t get rid of rapists or terrorists who end up here. The rules are protecting the wrong people.
For a second I almost started dancing,a woman at work who everyone hates went on holiday during Christmas….but she’s Portuguese,all of my joy,gone in an instant
No one:
The Sun: Country is OVERRUN we never send ‘em back.
No one:
The Guardian: The SCUM Tories correctly refuse entry to people without authorised LTE/LTR.
Still is strange they don’t let you in and out whilst making a decision like many countries
The Home Office gave her a certificate of application (CoA) that states “you can work in the UK until you receive a decision on your application to the EU settlement scheme”.
I’m not immigration expert but that’s confusing.
This is a worry of mine, I was born in the UK & lived here my whole life, but my mum was German and didn’t marry my British dad. My ass needs to stay here till I’ve clarified whether I’m British or not (passport office says no, but they’re taking *months* with my application and it’s still just “processing”).
Can’t get through on the phone, it kicks you back to the options menu after 20 minutes. No, you can’t talk to anyone at the passport office. You have to insult them over a few emails before they agree to phone you back.
Your letters asking for your other passport back a month+ ago? They’re in “the queue”. You can’t ask for your stuff back via email or phone, you have to write a letter … you did? Uh well 🤷♀️
I’m not actually entirely sure if my British birth certificate gives me right of abode or not. Maybe one day the British passport office will deign to tell me this.
I might have sorted it pre Brexit if they hadn’t let me vote all this time, now it’s more complicated
My father-in-law died while we were waiting for a decision on our paperwork and we were unable to attend his funeral. It was a terrible time. But rules are rules. We couldn’t risk leaving the country and not being allowed back in. I heard there’s an emergency visa one can apply for such circumstances in other places
Sorry to say but the Spanish government are wholly to blame for this situation. As a frequent visitor to Spain with many friends and family there, it’s been hard to believe the ridiculous lengths that Spain had gone to to try to punish British visitors and tax paying workers there for the Brexit decision.
They’ve been obstructive in every possible way. For example, the queues at airports for EU vs UK have been deliberately set up so that the UK travellers get stuck in mile long queues.
They blocked UK drivers from using their UK drivers licences for more than 6 months after Brexit, expecting people who can’t speak Spanish to be able to study for the drivers licence theory, and then on they somehow get through that, undergo the drivers test with an instructor that only speaks Spanish. The UK government was committed to continue with the bilateral agreement we’ve had in place since even before the EU developed, but the Spanish dragged their feet on purpose and in the end I think it took them a year and a half up sign the agreement. During that time, hard working tax paying British workers in Spain, many who relied on their cars were forced off the roads.
I believe remaining negotiations for finalising the Brexit agreements have been continually hampered, stalled and blocked by the Spanish with their infantile demands that the UK hands over Gibraltar. Remember, this is Spain we’re taking about, the same country that still occupied colonial land in northern Africa. How they get away with that I don’t know. If you don’t believe me, look up Alhucemas, Ceuta, the Chafarinas Islands, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera. You may want to throw the Canary Islands in there too.
So I hope this is the start of a much tougher stance from the UK side than we’ve seen so far. The UK government is under obligation to deliver on the promises made to voters in the Brexit referendum. They just start to hit back, tit for tat, especially with Spain. I believe other countries like Portugal immediately reached out to us to offer willingness to keep the relationships flourishing. The mind boggles to think how stupid the Spanish government has to be to jeopardize the relationship with the UK. A huge part of Spains revenue comes from British tourists, and there are about 350,000 expats living there permanently.
Spain has massive youth unemployment, in the region of 35% and the UK has taken their youngsters in with open arms. Unbelievable and reckless way to thank us.
The UK needs to administer a few more shocks to the Spanish to help them to see the reality that they are by far the net beneficiaries in the relationship. I’d personally love to see a coordinated summer boycott of all UK tourism to Spain, unless they quickly change their attitude and stop thinking it’s incumbent upon them to punish Brexit voters for exercising their democratic right to maintain UK sovereignty.
And they must grow up. They will never get Gibraltar. Maybe we can help them understand that by expelling Spanish nationals that currently live and work there. Then use Gibraltar as the UK refugee and migrant processing depot, and offer the with vacated by Spaniards to approveed asylum seekers.
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Literally first Google result says not to travel if your application hasn’t been decided, she even had a lucky escape a few months before and the daft woman still risked it. Now you think the news paper will help?
[removed]
I love how we’ve had more immigration in the past 20 years than the 2000 years before combined.
Yet one person gets deported to Spain for breaking the conditions of her visa, and the Ragtag Guardian presents it as proof of the FAR RIGHT coming to power. They are ridiculous propagandists.
Weird. This was posted before and got removed I guess? Anyway, she understood the rules and then broke them. It was the correct decision by the home office. The guardian tries to bury it, but her documents weren’t correct. She knew exactly what she was doing and she knew it was wrong. She even posted about it on Reddit and everybody told her she was wrong, but she tried anyway.
This is the exact same situation as brits living in Spain who didn’t bother to get their shit in order, and this sub laughed at them. If this women had done things correctly she wouldn’t have an issue.
It’s bait from the guardian, as always.
You know the system is completely broken when a Spanish woman can get deported this easily but we can’t get rid of rapists or terrorists who end up here. The rules are protecting the wrong people.
For a second I almost started dancing,a woman at work who everyone hates went on holiday during Christmas….but she’s Portuguese,all of my joy,gone in an instant
No one:
The Sun: Country is OVERRUN we never send ‘em back.
No one:
The Guardian: The SCUM Tories correctly refuse entry to people without authorised LTE/LTR.
Still is strange they don’t let you in and out whilst making a decision like many countries
The Home Office gave her a certificate of application (CoA) that states “you can work in the UK until you receive a decision on your application to the EU settlement scheme”.
I’m not immigration expert but that’s confusing.
This is a worry of mine, I was born in the UK & lived here my whole life, but my mum was German and didn’t marry my British dad. My ass needs to stay here till I’ve clarified whether I’m British or not (passport office says no, but they’re taking *months* with my application and it’s still just “processing”).
Can’t get through on the phone, it kicks you back to the options menu after 20 minutes. No, you can’t talk to anyone at the passport office. You have to insult them over a few emails before they agree to phone you back.
Your letters asking for your other passport back a month+ ago? They’re in “the queue”. You can’t ask for your stuff back via email or phone, you have to write a letter … you did? Uh well 🤷♀️
I’m not actually entirely sure if my British birth certificate gives me right of abode or not. Maybe one day the British passport office will deign to tell me this.
I might have sorted it pre Brexit if they hadn’t let me vote all this time, now it’s more complicated
My father-in-law died while we were waiting for a decision on our paperwork and we were unable to attend his funeral. It was a terrible time. But rules are rules. We couldn’t risk leaving the country and not being allowed back in. I heard there’s an emergency visa one can apply for such circumstances in other places
Sorry to say but the Spanish government are wholly to blame for this situation. As a frequent visitor to Spain with many friends and family there, it’s been hard to believe the ridiculous lengths that Spain had gone to to try to punish British visitors and tax paying workers there for the Brexit decision.
They’ve been obstructive in every possible way. For example, the queues at airports for EU vs UK have been deliberately set up so that the UK travellers get stuck in mile long queues.
They blocked UK drivers from using their UK drivers licences for more than 6 months after Brexit, expecting people who can’t speak Spanish to be able to study for the drivers licence theory, and then on they somehow get through that, undergo the drivers test with an instructor that only speaks Spanish. The UK government was committed to continue with the bilateral agreement we’ve had in place since even before the EU developed, but the Spanish dragged their feet on purpose and in the end I think it took them a year and a half up sign the agreement. During that time, hard working tax paying British workers in Spain, many who relied on their cars were forced off the roads.
I believe remaining negotiations for finalising the Brexit agreements have been continually hampered, stalled and blocked by the Spanish with their infantile demands that the UK hands over Gibraltar. Remember, this is Spain we’re taking about, the same country that still occupied colonial land in northern Africa. How they get away with that I don’t know. If you don’t believe me, look up Alhucemas, Ceuta, the Chafarinas Islands, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera. You may want to throw the Canary Islands in there too.
So I hope this is the start of a much tougher stance from the UK side than we’ve seen so far. The UK government is under obligation to deliver on the promises made to voters in the Brexit referendum. They just start to hit back, tit for tat, especially with Spain. I believe other countries like Portugal immediately reached out to us to offer willingness to keep the relationships flourishing. The mind boggles to think how stupid the Spanish government has to be to jeopardize the relationship with the UK. A huge part of Spains revenue comes from British tourists, and there are about 350,000 expats living there permanently.
Spain has massive youth unemployment, in the region of 35% and the UK has taken their youngsters in with open arms. Unbelievable and reckless way to thank us.
The UK needs to administer a few more shocks to the Spanish to help them to see the reality that they are by far the net beneficiaries in the relationship. I’d personally love to see a coordinated summer boycott of all UK tourism to Spain, unless they quickly change their attitude and stop thinking it’s incumbent upon them to punish Brexit voters for exercising their democratic right to maintain UK sovereignty.
And they must grow up. They will never get Gibraltar. Maybe we can help them understand that by expelling Spanish nationals that currently live and work there. Then use Gibraltar as the UK refugee and migrant processing depot, and offer the with vacated by Spaniards to approveed asylum seekers.