For instance, if someone failed to send in an original passport they could just request it. That's what Immigration NZ would do. But no, the Home Office sends you a form letter (sometimes still with [placeholders]) telling you to leave the country where you are legally resident.
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To top it off, the whole process is also corrupt: When
@monlouhawk case was in news (which inspired me to talk to@guardian) the Home Office suddenly reverse it's "unappealable" decision after a few days. So it's clearly not about following rules.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
There is clearly some racism in this system - the Windrush scandal shows that. But what Monique & I complained about is the arbitrariness & indifferent cruelty. This process should be fair to everyone. Fair does not mean equally broken for all.
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Don't know enough about what it's like emigrate to NZ. My ideal is no borders.
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The UK treatment of people like us was completely unacceptable. My case was just stupid, but the health insurance requirement for *some* EU citizens (e.g. students) that they also didn't tell anybody about & which worked retroactively was a starker demonstration of that.
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Of course, this was all well before we knew about the Windrush debacle. With 20/20 hindsight none of this should surprise anyone & the treatment of Windrush people is orders of magnitude worse than what they did (& still do) to EU citizens.
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I'm pretty sure people knew about the racism in Home Office for decades.
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Yes but it's not just about racism. The Windrush situation is about legal citizens being arbitrarily robbed of their legal rights because of Home Office & government incompetence.
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I'm pretty sure people knew about incompetence in the Home Office for decades.
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