Windrush Petition

[Theworldisfullofidiots]

Please would you consider signing this petition to provide amnesty for the windrush children who either lived most of their whole lives here or in some cases were born here but the home office has lost their paper work. The home office is a shambles but being successful in creating their hostile environment.
These people have lived their whole lives here because we asked their parents to work here. They had commonwealth status and then the rules were changed .

So glad that awareness of this issue is being raised.

I have a relative in this position and we are having to pay thousands of pounds to ensure she will be able to access health care and her pension. She is in her late 50's and has been in the UK for over forty years after coming from the Caribbean as a child.

The Home Office have not kept records of new arrivals to the UK from that time period and unfortunately she has lost the paperwork she had when she arrived in the UK.

She did not realise it was an issue, worked in the UK, paid taxes, claimed benefits and raised children here... Then several years ago her employer carried out some sort of immigration status checks and she found she was unable to prove the she had Indefinite Leave to Remain she then lost her job which led to her losing her rented accommodation and being unable to claim any benefits.

It's a terrible situation.

I travelled on my mother's passport for years. I only got my own passport when I was nine because I needed to enter the UK on my own. If I had entered on my mother's passport and never left, would there be a record of my entry? The ability to travel on a parent's passport was only comparatively recently removed so many people would have entered as children without a passport. For example, Jamaica only became independent in 1962 so many of the parents would have considered themselves British. I presume that they would have had British passports as that's how the Asians thrown out of Uganda came to the UK.

I don't recall any publicity in the 1980s. Luckily I was born in the UK to parents born in the UK even if I left almost immediately.

HMRC must have tax records and census records would show roughly when they were in the UK as children. I certainly couldn't show four pieces of evidence for each year I've been in the UK since 1974 when this became my permanent residence: HMRC told me I only had to hold on to stuff for seven years and I got rid of most paperwork - most of mine is paperless now. The Government only has to cross-reference their own records but they won't. 😡😠🤬

Done x

I've looked for evidence of this 1980s 'publicity' and can't find a thing.

I'm glad the numbers signing are still rising.

Thank you for this. I was completely unaware of the issue! Have signed and shared.

Done.

petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=216539

Come on people where there is barely any colour!

Let's keep bumping this, I know the petition has already reached 100,000 signatures but it can't help to get more and raise publicity about this issue.

Great idea

Evening bump, with a link to this article about how the heads of 12 Commonwealth countries asked for this issue to be on the agenda at this week's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting and were refused .

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/15/no-10-refuses-caribbean-request-to-discuss-children-of-windrush

Our Government refuses a request to discuss the issue by Commonwealth Heads of State.

I think Redtoothbrush is right: it's going to take 500,000 signatures to shame them into listening.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/15/no-10-refuses-caribbean-request-to-discuss-children-of-windrush

Wow.
Read what's happening to these people.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/15/why-the-children-of-windrush-demand-an-immigration-amnesty

Signed happily, from a very little(on the map) coloured area. Bad when you feel ashamed to be associated with the UK

dancing I've just read it. This government is despicable.

signed without hesitation.

bumpity-bump

The. Petition is at 117111

Signed and shared on twitter.

I have signed and shared and several of my friends have shared on too as a result.

Signed!
Please sign.

amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/15/no-10-refuses-caribbean-request-to-discuss-children-of-windrush?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&__twitter_impression=true
No 10 refuses Caribbean request to discuss children of Windrush
British residents threatened with deportation to countries they left as children and have not returned to since

These people have lived their whole lives here because we asked their parents to work here. They had commonwealth status and then the rules were changed .

Yes, this ^.
Although the Home Office is overworked with issues of immigration, this is totally unacceptable.
Will sign and share

Signed and shared. I can't express how disgusted I am at this. Utterly shameful.

It is indeed shameful.
And it can be reversed.
But I think RedToothBrush has it right, it may take 500,000 signatures to do so.

If we each think of sharing it with people less likely to have heard of it - relatives who are not avid newspaper readers. Younger people with vast numbers of Facebook friends.

We can stop this shit. We really can.

It's weird that No 10 are stonewalling attempts to engage them in discussion on this. I can't imagine this is a move supported by many bar the far right. Even people who moan about immigration probably feel this is a deeply unfair move on the part of the govt.