Thread by @WindrushLives

This eve, @Channel4News will feature an item on @RichardSBlack1. He came to Britain as a small child and lived here for many years before he was refused re-entry following a visit to Trinidad. That decision - which was wrong, as Richard was a citizen - has shaped his life. [1/7]

Richard was left destitute in Trinidad, and his family was carved up, with his then-wife and children able to remain in the UK. @ukhomeoffice materially altered the course of Richard’s life. But that’s not the worst of it. [2/7]

https://twitter.com/RichardSBlack1/status/1434504997409116168

After publicity and a number of direct approaches, former Windrush Compensation Scheme head Tom Greig and others at @ukhomeoffice promised Richard he would be repatriated, at govt’s cost, THIS SUMMER.

As previously mentioned, Greig has been pulled off Windrush matters. [3/7]

Still, Greig isn’t the only official at the HO, despite what it seems to think, and the long and the short of it is, the promise made to @RichardSBlack1 has not been kept. @ukhomeoffice has failed him all over again. Richard remains in Trinidad, where C4 went to meet him. [4/7]

In addition, as in the Mahabir case, @ukhomeoffice has dithered and caused problems with regards to a visa for Richard’s wife. Richard is in his 70s with health issues; his wife needs to be with him. (That would be his right even if he was 30 and competing in the Olympics.) [5/7]

There is a lot more to this galling story - watch @Channel4News this evening at 7 for the full story.

The Windrush crisis is not over - many, potentially 000s, of rightful UK status holders remain stranded overseas, b/c of wrong @ukhomeoffice decisions, rooted in racism. [6/7]

And that’s before we even turn to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

But @pritipatel is busy developing a ‘legal basis’ to maybe drown asylum seekers in the Channel, so there’s that.

@Channel4News, this evening. 📺 👁 #WindrushInjustice #BreakTheHE [7/7]

🚨🚨 Here is the @Channel4News piece🚨🚨:
One thing it doesn't mention is Richard's planned repatriation has been delayed for [?] reasons, (likely including all the manpower required to invent legal arguments for violating the Refugee Convention) [8/7]

Earlier, I failed to mention @marissa_marius, @RichardSBlack1's daughter, who is caught up in this, and who *isn't* being given a right to return like her father.

@ukhomeoffice says in the piece it is in "constant contact" with Richard. This is untrue. [9/7]

Richard has struggled to get updates; the decision to grant him the returning resident visa took an inordinate length of time, and there is still no resolution re his wife or daughter. He was originally told he would be returning this Summer; that hasn't happened. [10/7]