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After 9 years in the UK, I'm finally a permanent resident.
If your instinct is to congratulate me, don't. Don't congratulate me on surviving a cruel immigration system.
Instead, I need you to:
-read this thread
-share it
-write to your MP to end the hostile environment
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If your instinct is to congratulate me, don't. Don't congratulate me on surviving a cruel immigration system.
Instead, I need you to:
-read this thread
-share it
-write to your MP to end the hostile environment
1/
I have been intentionally keeping my mouth shut on this topic because I didn't feel I had a right or that it was safe for me to speak out while my life here was considered 'temporary'. 2/
But the time for keeping quiet is now over. I won’t shut up until this country stops actively hurting immigrants, and I need your help to stop it. 3/
1/ Today is the sixth anniversary of the introduction of the minimum income rule for families to live together in the UK. It splits families apart. A few facts from my book Welcome to Britain: amzn.to/3iM34NW
2/ First, though, here’s an infographic we put together for a training course on how the rule works. The first barrier is complexity: it is really hard to understand how it even works. 
3/ Affected families cannot live together in the UK. They either have to split apart, which is unbearably hard, or live together in another country, if they can. And relocating together to EU countries is about to become impossible due to Brexit.
