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Saturday 21 November 2015

IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL

Over 500 Nigerians deported from UK
(Updated)


500 Nigerians arrived Lagos today
after they were bundled in a plane
and deported from the UK: Photo credit, bbc
Dozens of Nigerian care workers have been arrested in immigration raids across London and are being held at various removal centres.

They have been told they will be forcibly removed from the UK on a charter flight on Tuesday.


The care worker were arrested for allegedly overstaying their visas. Some had worked for more than a decade and say they are distraught at the prospect of leaving behind many elderly and vulnerable people they have forged close bonds with.

Some of those being held were working for a large company called Mears Group, which provides staff to care for elderly and disabled people.

The Home Office confirmed that on 7 and 8 Septemberimmigration enforcement officers conducted simultaneous raids at residential addresses across London. Thirty-four care workers were arrested and detained while another 21 were served with immigration documents and placed on temporary release.

A Home Office spokesman said: “This intelligence-led operation was conducted in response to allegations that foreign nationals have been using forged documentation to gain employment illegally as carers.”

Many of the detained workers are being held in Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire. One said: “We are getting all kinds of phonecalls and messages from the people we have been looking after for many years asking us what has happened to us and when we are going to go back to look after them. We know our clients so well – how they like their cups of tea, what their favourite clothes are. But now we’ve lost our clients and our clients have lost us.”

Olusoji Bolarinwa, 37, is one of the Nigerian care workers who is being detained at Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincoln. He received a Dignity In Care award in 2013 and has been nominated for the same honour this year.

“We heard that up to 130 people were targeted in night-time raids earlier this month,” said Bolarinwa.

“I was not at home when I was arrested. I was at a friend’s house. They had not come looking for me, they came for my friend but when they found me at his house they arrested me too. These raids were terrible.

“They were banging on the doors in the early hours of the morning. The people we were looking after keep asking where we are and when we are coming back. I think they are being told that we are off sick, but if we are deported on Tuesday the ‘sickness’ will not end.”

A female care worker said that she was woken up in the early hours of the morning by battering on her door. “I thought there was a fire,” she said. “It is true that I had overstayed my visa but many of us have worked as carers for years and years, some for more than 10 years. In that time we have always paid our taxes, our national insurance and our pension contributions and have had all the police checks.

“Why did nobody raise the issue of our visas before now? I loved my job, I was providing personal care to old people. We were being paid peanuts but we didn’t mind because at least we had a roof over our heads and could send some money back to our families in Nigeria. Many carers have overstayed their visas. If the Home Office remove us all there are not going to be enough people to look after all the old and vulnerable people in this county.”

One elderly client told the Guardian: “I miss her, she really knows me well and cares about me,… I didn’t understand at first why she went away without telling me. Other carers have come but I keep having to tell them what to do and it’s confusing.”

Alan Long, one of the directors of Mears Group, said not all the carers picked up by the Home Office had worked for the firm. He added: “We have got very good procedures but one or two do tend to slip through the net. It’s unfortunate that some of the staff were long-term workers with us. We always work with the Home Office and I don’t think that this has impacted on our service.”

Mears Care in Hounslow received a glowing report from the Care Quality Commission this year scoring “good” on all five key indicators. The CQC found that older people and those with physical and mental health problems who were receiving care reported their carers to be kind, polite and considerate and said they felt supported by them.


Sally Warren, deputy chief inspector of adult social care at the CQC, said: “Our priority is to make sure that Mears Care Hounslow continues to provide people with care and support that is of the standard that they deserve and that we expect. We are continuing to liaise with Mears Care to monitor the impact that the staff vacancies are having on the quality of care and will be kept informed on their recruitment and mitigation plans.”




UK to return illegal Nigerians in Britain

THE United Kingdom (UK) has on Thursday, said the return of Nigerians, who have no right to remain in the UK is a key part of upholding a fair and robust immigration system, although stating that its preference is for such individuals to leave the UK voluntarily.


It said in an event the individuals fail to leave voluntarily, removal action will be taken against them.

Dropping the hint via a statement, Edward Dunn, who serves as Press Officer at British High Commission in Abuja said that returning the individuals, who lack right to remain in UK, will only be done after the government has determined nationality and medical fitness to travel, and when all legal avenues to remain in the UK have been exhausted.

"We will continue to maintain a close dialogue with the Nigerian Government, including the Nigeria High Commission in London, on these important and sensitive matters, which are of vital importance to our relations," he said.

Dunn used the platform to rebut allegations in some media of a failure to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora.

He acknowledged that a meeting was scheduled between the Chair of the House Committee on Diaspora, Honourable Rita Orji, and the British High Commissioner on Tuesday November 17 but said, due to a short notice change of timing by the House Committee, the High Commissioner was not able to attend the meeting.

"That meeting was then postponed," he said.

According to him, "While Diplomatic Missions are not formally required to answer to summons by a Nigerian Parliamentary House Committee, members of the British High Commission remain very willing to meet with the Committee Chair to discuss any issues they find concerning.

"Nigeria is the third highest source of visitors to the UK, enriching the UK with a thriving Disapora. It is right that we continue to encourage and endorse the best migration practices.


"We work closely with the Nigerian Government to facilitate visas for the large numbers of very welcome travellers between our two countries and to ensure the return of the small minority, who choose not to return when their visa expires," he said.


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Hello from
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I was amazed to find a website for Africans in Hungary.
Looks like you have quite a community there. Here in SA we have some three million Zimbabweans living in exile and not much sign of going home ... but in Hungary??? Hope to meet you on one of my trips to Europe; was in Steirmark Austria near the Hungarian border earlier this month. Every good wish for 2011. Geoff in Jo'burg

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ANH work but...
Interesting interview...
I think from what have been said, the Nigerian embassy here seem to be more concern about its nationals than we are for ourselves. Our complete disregard for the laws of Hungary isn't going to help Nigeria's image or going to promote what the Embassy is trying to showcase. So if the journalists could zoom-in more focus on Nigerians living, working and studying here in Hungary than scrutinizing the embassy and its every move, i think it would be of tremendous help to the embassy serving its nationals better and create more awareness about where we live . Taking the issues of illicit drugs and forged documents as typical examples.. there are so many cases of Nigerians been involved. But i am yet to read of it in e.news. So i think if only you and your journalists could write more about it and follow up on the stories i think it will make our nationals more aware of what to expect. I wouldn't say i am not impressed with your work but you need to be more of a two way street rather than a one way street . Keep up the good work... Sylvia

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