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Lexusgs430:
The exact reason she is go funding........ Who would prefer àkàrà to a bite of Krispy Kreme doughnuts......

Lol, we have patriotic citizens that will disagree with your post, they call it no place like home

AngelicBeing:
Lol, we have patriotic citizens that will disagree with your post, they call it no place like home

I call lack of exposure.........

Lexusgs430:
I call lack of exposure.........

Hian, Na you talk am oo, they will soon come for your head,

AngelicBeing:
Hian, Na you talk am oo, they will soon come for your head,

Coming for me is my hobby......... I am already immune to their rants..........

Gabson001:
You sound like a biafran

If it makes you happy.

See how she is even holding a British flag. Now you dey come back to the home of mosquitoes, no forget to bring treated mosquito net my dear.

olajide21:
If you leave in the North go to the South and let's see if you would be accepted and vice versa.

a northerner can live and be comfortable in the south ,but a southerner is not safe and accomodated in the north.southerners are viewed with contempt and regarded as invaders by the northerners.

Tats:
They said she went to Nigeria to live and returned later to the UK, so she definitely had Naija passport at some point but likely expired. Its very unusual that she hasn't travelled in a long time as many people in Britain including young people tend to travel even if just to Spain or France.

I would say that she should be eligible for permanent residency even if based on long stay as an illegal (if that is what she is regarded as). Using Windrush is a bit of riding on sentiments. Her case should be on compassionate grounds now.

Thanks this seems the only way out not all those noise makers and mockers

AerialMapper:
The question is, did one or both her parents have legal right to be in the UK at the time of her birth? If Yes, then she is entitled to British Citizenship.

Not nercerssarily, even if they did, they still needed to resgister her as stated, what she will end up with eventually will be Indefinite leave to remain, After which she will then qualify for a british citizen, then a british passport. at the moment she is considered as a Nigerian born.

tactius:
Sajid Javid , the Home Sec was born in the UK in 1969...well before the 1983 change in the law that ended automatic citizenship for Commonwealth nation immigrants...so he is automatically a citizen.

In my opinion, the fault is from her parents. They should have regularized her stay once she was born there. However, it is possible they also were not thinking of staying permanently in the UK at the time.

Her parents mehn! what a careless couple; to think they were very educated and allow this mess for their daughter

No matter where you go, remember the road that leads you home... Bunmi Thomas

Hahaha

Please come back Home.... we miss you!

gentlemayor:
Musician born in UK given 14 days to leave the country

Bumi Thomas has been told she is illegal despite being born in Glasgow and spending most of her life in the UK

A musician born in the UK faces being kicked out of her home because of a little-known change to Home Office legislation.

Bumi Thomas was given 14 days to leave after being told she is illegal despite living here most of her life. The rising jazz star grew up thinking she was British, attended university in the UK and has legally worked and paid taxes since graduation.

However because her parents are Nigerian, she now faces deportation and being separated from her family and friends. The situation bears a chilling resemblance to the Windrush scandal, which saw many people deported in error after decades of life in the UK.

Ms Thomas was born in Glasgow in June 1983 to parents who came over from Africa in the early 1970s. In January 1983, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government changed the British Nationality Act that removed the automatic right of citizenship for children of parents from former colonies.

The singer’s parents should have registered her but were unaware they needed to do so. In a twist of irony, Ms Thomas’ elder sister Kemi was born one year before the Act and has always had legal status.

The musician, 36, believes she is a victim of an increasingly hostile attitude by the Home Office to migrants in the UK. She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘My parents came here at the end of the Windrush era. ‘I had a National Insurance number, I had my birth certificate, I’d got a driving licence, a bank account, I went to college.

‘At no point during that process was there any indication I was doing anything incorrectly.’ Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she continued: ‘I have never had any question in my mind that I’m British and Scottish. ‘And that’s something I’m proud of. But according to a piece of paper, suddenly what I think about myself isn’t valid. It’s an illusion.’

At the age of three-and-a-half, Ms Thomas and her family returned to Nigeria. She came back to the UK as a teenager, thinking she automatically had dual British-Nigerian nationality.

After graduating with a degree in fine arts from Bath Spa University she began to work and moved to London, where she now lives with her sister.

It was only at the age of 25 when she went to apply for her UK passport that she was told she was never registered as British. The Home Office was told she had technically overstayed in an illegal capacity.

Ms Thomas said her case was classed as ‘complex’ and she was told to use human rights legislation rather than immigration laws to fight it. That marked the start of an ‘exhausting and expensive’ decade-long legal battle.

Two weeks ago she received a letter from the Home Office saying her application for permanent residency had been unsuccessful. She was given 14 days to appeal or face detention without notice.

Ms Thomas has since lodged an appeal and is awaiting a court hearing. The musician, who has performed at the Royal Festival Hall and London Palladium, continued: ‘My parents had no idea of the law change.

‘This was in an analogue age, where correspondence was written and there was no social media.’ She added: ‘When I was told I wasn’t British, I was shocked and devastated.

My soul and my spirit were screaming. ‘Nigeria is foreign to me and I am a foreigner there. I’ve been in the UK for 18 years.’ Ms Thomas’ grandfather came to the UK to study medicine and she said her parents were also given a warm welcome as part of the Windrush generation – when people from former colonies came to the UK to rebuild the country after the Second World War.

She said their treatment was in stark contrast to the way the Home Office was now treating her and thousands of others who ‘fall through the cracks of the system.’ She added: ‘There is a stigma attached to being an immigrant these days.

‘At no point did I ever think I was doing anything wrong. ‘When my parents came over they were welcomed but now it is different. There are people who have lived in the UK for 30/40/50 years facing hostility.’

Ms Thomas continued: ‘The Home Office right now has a hostile environment policy, a set of administrative and legislative measures that are designed to make staying in the UK as difficult as possible for people like me.’

The musician should be making her US debut at the Ford Theatre in Los Angeles in October but the immigration issues mean that is now in doubt. She has launched a gofundme page to help towards legal costs, which are already at £7,000 and rising.

Ms Thomas’s lawyer, Fahad Ahmed, said she missed out on automatic citizenship by a matter of months and added: ‘Courts take a less harsh view than the Home Office, and if someone can prove their life is here, the courts will use their discretion.’

The British Nationality Act 1948 gave citizens of British colonies the right to settle in the UK. Since they had the legal right to come to the UK, they never needed nor were given any documents upon entry. In what later became known as the Windrush scandal, many were wrongly detained, denied legal rights or deported in administrative blunders.

The Home Office is set to pay up to £200 million in compensation to people whose lives were damaged by their mistaken classification as illegal immigrants. The Home Office has been contacted by Metro.co.uk about Ms Thomas’ case.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/26/musician-born-uk-given-14-days-leave-country-10074909/?ito=cbshare

UK knows who they want.... My sister please com back home

What does the home office secretary being Asian have to do with this?

I do hope she can sort it out as that’s where she grew up but the fact is her parents messed up. She claims she always though she was a British citizen yet she never applied for a passport until she was an adult which means she returned to the U.K. on a Nigerian passport. If they were so sure she was a British citizen as they claim why did she travel to the UK on a Nigerian passport and then wait over 20 years to apply for a UK passport.

The change in law that affected her was enacted during Thatcher days and says at least one parent must be a British citizen or permanent resident for the child to get citizenship pretty much ending birth right in the U.K

The fact she has lived there 30 years does not give her a right, but it should count towards humanitarian leniency.

jrusky:
Her lawyer will fight it out. It doesn't matter what any f u c k I n g home office are saying she has lived in UK for over 30 years, born there, school there etc so home office has no case. Or are they telling me 100 of thousands if not millions African, India, Pakistani etc that were born 20 years ago should all be deported Pls this is nonsense talk.

The home office secretary himself is from Asia so what does he has to say

Great body sha, she look like a 20yr old

Nigeria is strange to you...see format na...oshe!

gentlemayor:
Musician born in UK given 14 days to leave the country

Bumi Thomas has been told she is illegal despite being born in Glasgow and spending most of her life in the UK

A musician born in the UK faces being kicked out of her home because of a little-known change to Home Office legislation.

Bumi Thomas was given 14 days to leave after being told she is illegal despite living here most of her life. The rising jazz star grew up thinking she was British, attended university in the UK and has legally worked and paid taxes since graduation.

However because her parents are Nigerian, she now faces deportation and being separated from her family and friends. The situation bears a chilling resemblance to the Windrush scandal, which saw many people deported in error after decades of life in the UK.

Ms Thomas was born in Glasgow in June 1983 to parents who came over from Africa in the early 1970s. In January 1983, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government changed the British Nationality Act that removed the automatic right of citizenship for children of parents from former colonies.

The singer’s parents should have registered her but were unaware they needed to do so. In a twist of irony, Ms Thomas’ elder sister Kemi was born one year before the Act and has always had legal status.

The musician, 36, believes she is a victim of an increasingly hostile attitude by the Home Office to migrants in the UK. She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘My parents came here at the end of the Windrush era. ‘I had a National Insurance number, I had my birth certificate, I’d got a driving licence, a bank account, I went to college.

‘At no point during that process was there any indication I was doing anything incorrectly.’ Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she continued: ‘I have never had any question in my mind that I’m British and Scottish. ‘And that’s something I’m proud of. But according to a piece of paper, suddenly what I think about myself isn’t valid. It’s an illusion.’

At the age of three-and-a-half, Ms Thomas and her family returned to Nigeria. She came back to the UK as a teenager, thinking she automatically had dual British-Nigerian nationality.

After graduating with a degree in fine arts from Bath Spa University she began to work and moved to London, where she now lives with her sister.

It was only at the age of 25 when she went to apply for her UK passport that she was told she was never registered as British. The Home Office was told she had technically overstayed in an illegal capacity.

Ms Thomas said her case was classed as ‘complex’ and she was told to use human rights legislation rather than immigration laws to fight it. That marked the start of an ‘exhausting and expensive’ decade-long legal battle.

Two weeks ago she received a letter from the Home Office saying her application for permanent residency had been unsuccessful. She was given 14 days to appeal or face detention without notice.

Ms Thomas has since lodged an appeal and is awaiting a court hearing. The musician, who has performed at the Royal Festival Hall and London Palladium, continued: ‘My parents had no idea of the law change.

‘This was in an analogue age, where correspondence was written and there was no social media.’ She added: ‘When I was told I wasn’t British, I was shocked and devastated.

My soul and my spirit were screaming. ‘Nigeria is foreign to me and I am a foreigner there. I’ve been in the UK for 18 years.’ Ms Thomas’ grandfather came to the UK to study medicine and she said her parents were also given a warm welcome as part of the Windrush generation – when people from former colonies came to the UK to rebuild the country after the Second World War.

She said their treatment was in stark contrast to the way the Home Office was now treating her and thousands of others who ‘fall through the cracks of the system.’ She added: ‘There is a stigma attached to being an immigrant these days.

‘At no point did I ever think I was doing anything wrong. ‘When my parents came over they were welcomed but now it is different. There are people who have lived in the UK for 30/40/50 years facing hostility.’

Ms Thomas continued: ‘The Home Office right now has a hostile environment policy, a set of administrative and legislative measures that are designed to make staying in the UK as difficult as possible for people like me.’

The musician should be making her US debut at the Ford Theatre in Los Angeles in October but the immigration issues mean that is now in doubt. She has launched a gofundme page to help towards legal costs, which are already at £7,000 and rising.

Ms Thomas’s lawyer, Fahad Ahmed, said she missed out on automatic citizenship by a matter of months and added: ‘Courts take a less harsh view than the Home Office, and if someone can prove their life is here, the courts will use their discretion.’

The British Nationality Act 1948 gave citizens of British colonies the right to settle in the UK. Since they had the legal right to come to the UK, they never needed nor were given any documents upon entry. In what later became known as the Windrush scandal, many were wrongly detained, denied legal rights or deported in administrative blunders.

The Home Office is set to pay up to £200 million in compensation to people whose lives were damaged by their mistaken classification as illegal immigrants. The Home Office has been contacted by Metro.co.uk about Ms Thomas’ case.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/26/musician-born-uk-given-14-days-leave-country-10074909/?ito=cbshare

Oh no ...Her parents did not do well for her.

Why didn't her parents register for her UK citizenship when she turned at least 10 years old?

Beautyaddy:
Oh no ...Her parents did not do well for her.

Why didn't her parents register for her UK citizenship when she turned at least 10 years old?

All blames goes to her parent, they missed it on several occasions, although there's nothing they could have done when the rule changed, as she was born 6 months after.

*They shouldnt have taken her out of the system, she only needed to reside for 3-5 years then regularize her stay.
**On return, she would've come back as a dependent of a British citizen, she had a pathway to settlement, why didnt she apply for ILR after depending on her parents for few years.


Shes should now be able to apply for settlement on compassionate grounds as she has lived in the UK for about 20years now, even as illegal immigrant.

She think say na naija she dey wey nothing dey work at all.

hyperflex:
She should get a lawyer and fight it. She's done all that's necessary to be a British citizen. Once she leaves she has to apply as Nigerian. Stressful. I doubt she has Naija passport sef. To those laughing at her predicament nobody koba you o. Nobody say make them born u for naija. Cuz many of u like to laugh at other people's misery. Misery loves company

Don't mind them that's why they can't progress

felixlayi:
All blames goes to her parent, they missed it on several occasions, although there's nothing they could have done when the rule changed, as she was born 6 months after.

*They shouldnt have taken her out of the system, she only needed to reside for 3-5 years then regularize her stay.
**On return, she would've come back as a dependent of a British citizen, she had a pathway to settlement, why didnt she apply for ILR after depending on her parents for few years.


Shes should now be able to apply for settlement on compassionate grounds as she has lived in the UK for about 20years now, even as illegal immigrant.

Absolutely, Now, they see her as a Nigerian who will apply for ILR like any other Nigerian, she is not considered as a british citizen. if she ends up with the ILR she can then qualify to apply for a british passport as a Nigerian. it is very unfortunate.

what people don't understand is that the Home office make a lot of mistakes and it's up to people to regularise their documents, i was born in the UK in the early 90s my parents made sure that we were registered, i can't imagine been told that i am not british born after all these years because of some silly mistake.

Carelessness at it's peek.
Your parents negligence casued you this trauma

numen:
It's easy to sit down on nairaland and dispense judgement.

Btw...I hope she gets her British citizenship.

The law is as clear as the blue sky... You may want to believe otherwise and expect the law to be different for that person (because she is Nigerian) but I don't use sentiment on such matter.

I (on the other hand) hope she finds happiness, wherever she ends up.

I pity her, UK's Home Office have form, just remember the Windrush scandal.

The Windrush scandal is a 2018 political scandal concerning people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and in at least 83 cases, wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office.

I hope she gets a quick and comforting resolution whatever the case maybe.

ttmacoy:
What does the home office secretary being Asian have to do with this?

I do hope she can sort it out as that’s where she grew up but the fact is her parents messed up. She claims she always though she was a British citizen yet she never applied for a passport until she was an adult which means she returned to the U.K. on a Nigerian passport at age 3. If they were so sure she was a British passport as they claim why did she travel to the UK on a Nigerian passport and then wait over 20 years to apply for a passport.

The change in law that affected her was enacted during Thatcher days and says at least one parent must be a British citizen or permanent resident for the child to get citizenship pretty much ending birth right in the U.K

The fact she has lived there 30 years does not give her a right, but it should count towards humanitarian leniency.

Now you have really explain much better than those who came be and be making noise saying what they don't know anythiing about.

More so as I said I guess her lawyer has to fight it out for her to safe her from this error to let other people learn.

Thanks.

gentlemayor:
Musician born in UK given 14 days to leave the country

Bumi Thomas has been told she is illegal despite being born in Glasgow and spending most of her life in the UK

A musician born in the UK faces being kicked out of her home because of a little-known change to Home Office legislation.

Bumi Thomas was given 14 days to leave after being told she is illegal despite living here most of her life. The rising jazz star grew up thinking she was British, attended university in the UK and has legally worked and paid taxes since graduation.

However because her parents are Nigerian, she now faces deportation and being separated from her family and friends. The situation bears a chilling resemblance to the Windrush scandal, which saw many people deported in error after decades of life in the UK.

Ms Thomas was born in Glasgow in June 1983 to parents who came over from Africa in the early 1970s. In January 1983, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government changed the British Nationality Act that removed the automatic right of citizenship for children of parents from former colonies.

The singer’s parents should have registered her but were unaware they needed to do so. In a twist of irony, Ms Thomas’ elder sister Kemi was born one year before the Act and has always had legal status.

The musician, 36, believes she is a victim of an increasingly hostile attitude by the Home Office to migrants in the UK. She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘My parents came here at the end of the Windrush era. ‘I had a National Insurance number, I had my birth certificate, I’d got a driving licence, a bank account, I went to college.

‘At no point during that process was there any indication I was doing anything incorrectly.’ Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she continued: ‘I have never had any question in my mind that I’m British and Scottish. ‘And that’s something I’m proud of. But according to a piece of paper, suddenly what I think about myself isn’t valid. It’s an illusion.’

At the age of three-and-a-half, Ms Thomas and her family returned to Nigeria. She came back to the UK as a teenager, thinking she automatically had dual British-Nigerian nationality.

After graduating with a degree in fine arts from Bath Spa University she began to work and moved to London, where she now lives with her sister.

It was only at the age of 25 when she went to apply for her UK passport that she was told she was never registered as British. The Home Office was told she had technically overstayed in an illegal capacity.

Ms Thomas said her case was classed as ‘complex’ and she was told to use human rights legislation rather than immigration laws to fight it. That marked the start of an ‘exhausting and expensive’ decade-long legal battle.

Two weeks ago she received a letter from the Home Office saying her application for permanent residency had been unsuccessful. She was given 14 days to appeal or face detention without notice.

Ms Thomas has since lodged an appeal and is awaiting a court hearing. The musician, who has performed at the Royal Festival Hall and London Palladium, continued: ‘My parents had no idea of the law change.

‘This was in an analogue age, where correspondence was written and there was no social media.’ She added: ‘When I was told I wasn’t British, I was shocked and devastated.

My soul and my spirit were screaming. ‘Nigeria is foreign to me and I am a foreigner there. I’ve been in the UK for 18 years.’ Ms Thomas’ grandfather came to the UK to study medicine and she said her parents were also given a warm welcome as part of the Windrush generation – when people from former colonies came to the UK to rebuild the country after the Second World War.

She said their treatment was in stark contrast to the way the Home Office was now treating her and thousands of others who ‘fall through the cracks of the system.’ She added: ‘There is a stigma attached to being an immigrant these days.

‘At no point did I ever think I was doing anything wrong. ‘When my parents came over they were welcomed but now it is different. There are people who have lived in the UK for 30/40/50 years facing hostility.’

Ms Thomas continued: ‘The Home Office right now has a hostile environment policy, a set of administrative and legislative measures that are designed to make staying in the UK as difficult as possible for people like me.’

The musician should be making her US debut at the Ford Theatre in Los Angeles in October but the immigration issues mean that is now in doubt. She has launched a gofundme page to help towards legal costs, which are already at £7,000 and rising.

Ms Thomas’s lawyer, Fahad Ahmed, said she missed out on automatic citizenship by a matter of months and added: ‘Courts take a less harsh view than the Home Office, and if someone can prove their life is here, the courts will use their discretion.’

The British Nationality Act 1948 gave citizens of British colonies the right to settle in the UK. Since they had the legal right to come to the UK, they never needed nor were given any documents upon entry. In what later became known as the Windrush scandal, many were wrongly detained, denied legal rights or deported in administrative blunders.

The Home Office is set to pay up to £200 million in compensation to people whose lives were damaged by their mistaken classification as illegal immigrants. The Home Office has been contacted by Metro.co.uk about Ms Thomas’ case.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/26/musician-born-uk-given-14-days-leave-country-10074909/?ito=cbshare

Please God help her, it's a sad story.

Whatever you said here doesn't matter they only want to remind her she's from Nigeria.

asuustrike1:
What is your take on this lalasticlala, should this be moved to front page to enlighten other Nigerians in diaspora or it should remain?

If the topic is changed to "(Bumi Snake Thomas, Nigerian, Faces Deportation In UK. Given 14 Days To Leave", it will get there in a jiffy.

Ikpongiton:
a northerner can live and be comfortable in the south ,but a southerner is not safe and accomodated in the north.southerners are viewed with contempt and regarded as invaders by the northerners.

All in all, i hope we are all happy and comfortable where we leave.

olajide21:
If you leave in the North go to the South and let's see if you would be accepted and vice versa.

Thanks for this reply. Some persons can be funny.

3rdavefarms:
It shall be well with all your generations in Jesus name for this wonderful comment
Most people don’t know you can enjoy life to the Brim in Lagos and Abuja alone, talkless of Calabar And Osogbo with little money , the only difficulty is Security and God is watching over us

Easier said than done. God is watching over us.. Agreed but why didn't you move to borno state

Enjoy life to the brim in the midst of many uncertainties. Make i no talk sha

TemmyT002:
Eh ya
Don't mind them. Come here, we love you. We will never deny you.

Misery loves company