🏴☠️#Brexit Britain’s hostile regime for potential EU migrants is traumatising visitors caught in its web and provoking further worries for European families receiving visits from relatives... 
The slightest suspicion that someone may be entering Britain to work is often enough for them to be locked up, held at detention centres for up to a week and then expelled to wherever they have travelled from, some of those caught up by the policy have said...
Complaints from host families have either gone unanswered or been ignored by the Home Office and some local MPs. An Italian NHS consultant told of his horror when his niece arrived from Italy for a short visit but ended up in a detention centre surrounded by barbed wire...
There is growing anger over what campaigners and MEPs have said is a “disproportionate” and “heavy-handed” implementation of post-Brexit immigration restrictions on EU citizens. On Friday the EU’s co-chair of the post-Brexit UK-EU partnership council...
Maroš Šefčovič, told a group of Romanian MEPs he would be raising it with the UK authorities. Giuseppe Pichierri, who has worked for the NHS for 15 years, told the Guardian he had waited for hours at Heathrow airport on 17 April with his four-year-old daughter to collect his...
24-year-old niece Marta Lomartire with balloons and cards. But she did not show. She had been stopped, quizzed and issued with an expulsion order before being locked up in Colnbrook detention centre for the night...
Pichierri took his tearful daughter home and was called in the middle of the night and told Lomartire was being taken into detention. “We were never approached or told where she was,” he said. The following day, despite being on call at Kingston hospital...
He tracked her down to Colnbrook and had to travel to the detention centre to meet Lomartire, who was scared and upset. She did not understand where she was being taken and believed it was a prison. Lomartire, now back home in Puglia...
“It has been a really ugly experience, but now that I have had time to think about, I’m not going to let that stop me from returning. I’m determined to see my cousins.” She said, however, that she was scared she might be stopped at the frontier again and barred from...
entry because of the stamp on her passport. “I was expecting to have a beautiful evening with the kids and my cousins, but instead this nightmare started, instead of a reunion with my little cousins. Instead, I was behind bars and barbed wire...
It was the complete opposite to what I had expected.”
Pichierri welcomed his niece’s visit so she could improve her English and help him and his wife, Jennifer Pichierri, who also works in the NHS with babysitting their 11-month-old baby and two older daughters...
Pichierri welcomed his niece’s visit so she could improve her English and help him and his wife, Jennifer Pichierri, who also works in the NHS with babysitting their 11-month-old baby and two older daughters...
Conscious of the Covid-related travel restrictions, Giuseppe had provided her with a letter “outlining she could come and stay with us as an au pair, not realising that work, paid or not, is not permissible post-Brexit without a visa”.
He wanted to explain what he called his “honest mistake” to the authorities but never got the chance as Lomartire was expelled. Jennifer says she fears the stamp on Lomartire’s passport may mean she is barred until she gets a new passport. Source @guardian
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