#abolishthehomeoffice
Apr. 8th, 2018 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI've just started sharing stories like this on Facebook with exhortations to abolish the Home Office (something I think I also suggested in my immigration consultation response). But this article is a little different from the ones I usually
We see stories like this, about someone facing deportation for the flimsiest mistake or aracane technicality, on a regular basis now. This is a great case for getting sympathy and public interest, because it's about an East Asian (a minority that suffers from a more benevolent racism), a man, with a rich family, and who wants to be a GP.
If the Graun were writing this story, as it usually is the only paper that seems to talk about things like this, that'd probably be all we ended up knowing (along with the arcane details, especially the ones that include huge sums of money, and a good quote or two about how awful the process has been). But this guy's from Manchester so it's the MEN writing about it. And the MEN is actually pretty good at actual journalism, and I really like how this story is written.
First, as it points out right in the headline, this is a particularly horrible thing for the Home Office to do when the NHS is so short of doctors.
Also, one of the quotes from the guy here starts with “When they qualify, a lot of doctors go to Australia and walk straight into a job there.” We are educating people to highly-skilled positions and then not even letting them stay when they want to. This is happening with international students all the time who can no longer extend their visas to work here after they finish their studies.
This article tells us that his parents paid £96,000 for him to do his medicine degree. And we think nine grand a year is bad; international students pay so much more. Yet the UK is trying to restrict their numbers, at a time when universities don't have enough money already.
His application for ILR was 18 days late because he couldn't get an appointment with the Home Office to do it within two months; they are punishing this guy for their own bureaucracy letting him down.
The Home Office have already lost his court case where a judge said deporting him would breach his human rights and that his removal "would not be proportionate." (which I think is judge-language for "it'd be completely fucking unfair"). Rather than quitting when they're lost, the Home Office now want to spend another big pile of taxpayers' money to appeal that ruling. They really really want this keen young GP out of the country because of a delay shorter than many people's holidays, which they caused themselves and didn't help him avoid at all.
He won a court case, he must've thought he was safe and could return to the GP course he's only five months away from completing, which had to be halted while his immigration status was challenged. And now the Home Office want to drag him back in to this nightmare. It's an awful situation.
And I'm so mad this is happening so often I feel like a connoisseur of stories like this, and can admire this one for being a better-than-usual example of journalism in this new genre.
We see stories like this, about someone facing deportation for the flimsiest mistake or aracane technicality, on a regular basis now. This is a great case for getting sympathy and public interest, because it's about an East Asian (a minority that suffers from a more benevolent racism), a man, with a rich family, and who wants to be a GP.
If the Graun were writing this story, as it usually is the only paper that seems to talk about things like this, that'd probably be all we ended up knowing (along with the arcane details, especially the ones that include huge sums of money, and a good quote or two about how awful the process has been). But this guy's from Manchester so it's the MEN writing about it. And the MEN is actually pretty good at actual journalism, and I really like how this story is written.
First, as it points out right in the headline, this is a particularly horrible thing for the Home Office to do when the NHS is so short of doctors.
the NHS is planning to spend £100m to bring in 3,000 GPs from abroad to alleviate shortages here. Recruitment agencies will earn around £20,000 for each successful placement in England.Twenty grand for each GP! Where are the posters of babies that say "she needs an incubator, not a twenty-grand headhunter fee" now, eh?
Also, one of the quotes from the guy here starts with “When they qualify, a lot of doctors go to Australia and walk straight into a job there.” We are educating people to highly-skilled positions and then not even letting them stay when they want to. This is happening with international students all the time who can no longer extend their visas to work here after they finish their studies.
This article tells us that his parents paid £96,000 for him to do his medicine degree. And we think nine grand a year is bad; international students pay so much more. Yet the UK is trying to restrict their numbers, at a time when universities don't have enough money already.
His application for ILR was 18 days late because he couldn't get an appointment with the Home Office to do it within two months; they are punishing this guy for their own bureaucracy letting him down.
The Home Office have already lost his court case where a judge said deporting him would breach his human rights and that his removal "would not be proportionate." (which I think is judge-language for "it'd be completely fucking unfair"). Rather than quitting when they're lost, the Home Office now want to spend another big pile of taxpayers' money to appeal that ruling. They really really want this keen young GP out of the country because of a delay shorter than many people's holidays, which they caused themselves and didn't help him avoid at all.
He won a court case, he must've thought he was safe and could return to the GP course he's only five months away from completing, which had to be halted while his immigration status was challenged. And now the Home Office want to drag him back in to this nightmare. It's an awful situation.
And I'm so mad this is happening so often I feel like a connoisseur of stories like this, and can admire this one for being a better-than-usual example of journalism in this new genre.
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Date: 2018-04-08 04:15 pm (UTC)it is.
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Date: 2018-04-09 06:35 pm (UTC)https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/09/special-needs-teacher-uk-50-years-loses-job-immigration-status
Just look at the documentation requirements.
I don't even have my original birth certificate for fuck's sake.
And yet people who were children when they emigrated decades ago are having everything taken from them.
Children's services are desperate for senior social and care workers and yet this shit goes on.
And of course it goes without saying, most of the lack-of-documentation cases I've seen so far have never featured white people.