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UK Boarder force, A Xenophobic comedy but don't expect them to communicate in English
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/aussie-tourist-refused-entry-to-the-uk-because-of-travel-notes-in-diary/news-story/9e345b6cb21f3b1ce0332a1ef4b4a372
AN AUSTRALIAN woman on a European holiday says she was refused entry to the UK after a British immigration official misinterpreted a page from her personal diary as evidence she was actually seeking illegal work.
Melbourne artist Jody Cleaver, 31, was heading to the Yorkshire city of Leeds to stay with a friend for a month in the midst of her five-month travels through Europe, Fairfax reported.
She was carrying with her a diary of hand-scrawled notes about her travels, including a to-do list that included booking flights and researching museums.
She also wrote about plans to obtain a visa for the Schengen Area and noted Spain, Italy or France as possible options to find long-term work. Ms Cleaver said she wrote nothing in the diary about the UK, where she intended to stay with a friend for just a month before meeting her mother in Paris.
But upon arriving at London’s Stansted Airport, the Australian was interrogated and incarcerated overnight.
She was then sent packing from the UK after an immigration official said her diary contained evidence that she was, in fact, planning to live and work in the UK illegally.
“They thought I would want to work there ... They asked if I had printed CVs in my bag. Like it was 1992,” Ms Cleaver said on Facebook after she was sent back to Rome.
The traveller, who works as a freelance artist, admitted she didn’t have a return flight out of the UK, which made her “a touch too casual for the UK”.
“However they told me even with transport out I needed more incentive to return to Australia so even with it I would have been denied. (The immigration officer) said I would need a signed work contract with dates’ of leave specified.
“Also the English of the interviewer wasn’t 100 per cent ... So he was writing incorrect information down from the start. I told him our communication wasn’t clear and he became very angry.”
Ms Cleaver told Fairfax the notes in her diary were simply a to-do list.
“I wrote nothing about the UK,” she said. “Yet (the immigration official) alighted on that and said, ‘You wrote long term work, meaning you’re trying to work illegally here because you haven’t written the word permit in your notebook. That means you’re looking for work without a permit’.”
The official said Ms Cleaver’s lack of permanent employment in Australia was another reason for her deportation, even though she provided evidence of her work as a freelance artist.
He also said the painting course she did in Florence “may have had something to do with working in the UK”.
veya_victaous- The Mod Loki, Minister of Chaos & Candy, Emperor of the Southern Realms, Captain Kangaroo
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Tommy Did you get a Job at Stansted Airport?
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She had no return ticket, why?
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nicko wrote:
She had no return ticket, why?
MAYBE she wasn't planning that far ahead..
Maybe she wanted to keep her itinerary flexible ?
Afterall, she had allowed 5 months for the whole holiday...
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You still need a return ticket even if she planned to stay 6 months.
Don't look for excuses wolfie, according to other things that were found she intended to look for work!!
Don't look for excuses wolfie, according to other things that were found she intended to look for work!!
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work in the EU
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THE UK has been making it increasingly harder for foreigners to enter, over the last couple of decades -- even for us poor downtrodden former-'colonials'...
It's a lot easier for Pom's to visit Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US or Jamaica, than it is now for anyone from the ex-colonial outposts to visit the former motherlands.. Have to make double sure to have all those i's crossed and t's dotted with documentation these days !
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