It can't be right that 70 year old man, born in what was then British India, to a British Army Officer father and who can trace his British ancestry back to the 14th Century has had his passport revoked and is facing deportation!
The Home Office and UK Boarder Agency are congenitally incapable of deporting thousands of illegal immigrants, and such undesirables as the Muslim hate cleric Abu Qatada, but give them a decent upstanding citizen whose family has served this country faithfully and well for 120 years and they're lightning fast with the deportation order.
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark".
Hamlet (Act 1 - Scene 4), Marcellus to Horatio
You might have mentioned, in the interests of balance, that the gentleman concerned opted to renounce his British nationality when he chose to become an Australian citizen. That he now regrets that choice is clear. Whether the situation he now finds himself in is fundamentally unfair I doubt. Moreover, if he applies for leave to remain, his case will no doubt be reviewed with full consideration of his current and past family ties with the UK.
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, he never actually renounced his British citizenship, many people have dual nationality and he retained his British passport. Because he was born in British India he was classed as a British subject 'without citizenship' and therefore ineligible for dual nationality. This seems to me, as does his treatment by the UK Border Agency, essentially unfair.
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