This is a brilliant result from Islington Law Centre. The lack of an immigration route for victims of transnational marriage abandonment is finally acknowledged.
What is transnational marriage abandonment? It occurs when a British spouse sponsors a foreign spouse to join them in the UK. The foreign spouse obtains a time-limited UK visa. The British spouse then decides they don't want them, and takes them abroad to abandon them.
Jun 22, 2020 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
1. For #WindrushDay I'm going to share the story of Zaffar Mirza, a 56 year old Pakistani man who was lawfully living with his family in Edinburgh until one day he lost his passport and became a victim of the #HostileEnvironment, two years before the #Windrush scandal broke.
2. In 1967, aged 8, Mr Mirza moved from Pakistan to London with his family. He had a difficult youth, and spent some time in local authority care and juvenile detention before moving to Scotland aged 17. There, he met and married a British woman, Mrs Begum, one year later.
May 28, 2020 • 26 tweets • 12 min read
1/ Struggling to keep up with the avalanche of immigration news, wins and Home Office U-turns since lockdown? Me too! So I've thrown together this immigration track and trace thread to try and catalogue the major events and turning of the tide on migrant rights.
2/ 17 February 2020: Home Office, unencumbered by the need to introduce any type of legislation, unilaterally confers automatic leave to remain by announcement on gov.uk website to Chinese nationals whose visas expire between 24 January and 30 March 2020.
