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[Tropicana]

While I feel sorry for him to some extent... you live 54 years in another country and you do not bother to apply for citizenship? Really?

Don't roll your eyes My Looh. Jamaicans are known for this. Why do you think we are having problems with deportees?

[Yuriatin]

The only way he'll get back to the UK is if someone there in immigration -

* RE-reviews his case and has compassion and a sense of humanity
* he gets a damn good lawyer to file a waiver and fight for him
* if he keeps up the fight publicly and shame them in to letting him return

In practice, the UK don't really have to approve a damn thing. THEY didn't do anything wrong. It was HE who dropped the ball.

Very sad. I hope they do the right thing and let him return.



(lada massi - omuch YEARS! no mia preach seh peeps fi guh tek out dem citizenship! tiyad fi talk)

[RichD]

if he had legal resident status he would not need to become a citizen. he would still be able to travel back and forth.
he said he recently renewed his Jamaican passport. wonder if he knew he had no status in the UK even after all this time.

i think his wife or children might have to file for him now.

[kia027]

if he had legal resident status he would not need to become a citizen. he would still be able to travel back and forth.
he said he recently renewed his Jamaican passport. wonder if he knew he had no status in the UK even after all this time.

i think his wife or children might have to file for him now.

curious why the jamaican high commission did not mention he needs a visa in his passport
and when he was leaving, did anyone look at his return ticket to see that he had the appropriate documentation to return?

[Tropicana]

I have sent the story to the press office for the Royal family, hoping someone can intervene on behalf of this poor man.

[Yuriatin]

Ohhhhhh no, no, no.

The onus is on the traveler.

They don't know what a traveler's business is - all the what's why's and how comes they're traveling or if they're even coming back from where they're going to .

curious why the jamaican high commission did not mention he needs a visa in his passport
and when he was leaving, did anyone look at his return ticket to see that he had the appropriate documentation to return?

[RichD]

curious why the jamaican high commission did not mention he needs a visa in his passport
and when he was leaving, did anyone look at his return ticket to see that he had the appropriate documentation to return?

if you are leaving they only need to see that you have documentation to go where you are going ..they are not concerned about your return. although somebody should have told him if they saw he had a return ticket

[MsExced]

Poor man not everyone understands these things hope it works out for him soon

[Peasie]

It should be a simple thing to resolve at the British High Commission in Kingston.

[RichD]

i dont think its that simple.

if he had no status in Uk they going to give him a hard time. he will have to go through an application process to get status.

he is going to need some kind of ministerial intervention to get him a compassionate entry visa

[Yuriatin]

Prezackly...

Far from simple to solve.



I feel it for the guy.

Really hope they do right by him.

We never seem to learn tho - so it's not the first and wont be the last.

i dont think its that simple.

if he had no status in Uk they going to give him a hard time. he will have to go through an application process to get status.

he is going to need some kind of ministerial intervention to get him a compassionate entry visa

[Peasie]

But he earns a pension in the UK He was admitted to the UK as a British citizen.

[RichD]

But he earns a pension in the UK He was admitted to the UK as a British citizen.

i think maybe his wife trick him an sen him to Jamaica knowing he wont be able to come back

[Yuriatin]

P - where's it say he earns a pension?

Either way, I don't believe you need to be a citizen in order to earn a pension. I could be wrong but I know that to be the case here in the US.

Ur last point - that goes to my original post - something is way off here - not right. Are we sure that he was admitted as a British citizen? Is HE?! How do we know? Brah man didn't even realize that he needed to file whatsitnat ... !

Someone here will correct me but even the older peeps who gained UK Citizenship via times BEFORE independence, don't travel back INTO the UK on their Jamaica Passport. U must get a British Passport.

But he earns a pension in the UK He was admitted to the UK as a British citizen.

[RichD]

But he earns a pension in the UK He was admitted to the UK as a British citizen.

before independence colonials were considered british citizens but once their home country got independence they had to apply to keep the british citizenship or sumtin like that