Gamu to leave the UK

[Chinghehuang]

Are you bothered? Not exactly Aretha Franklin is she, don't know what all the fuss is about.

Not from the UK. She must return to her country of origin and apply from there. This is true for all adults who did not first enter in their own right on a visa that permits stay of longer than six months (excepting those who first apply and enter under a fiance visa, which is for 6 months during which the couple must marry and the non-EU applicant change their visa. If they do not marry within 6 months, the fiance visa holder has to leave).

And you call yourselves mums!?!?!?
You lot, apart from one, have no clue about visas and how they work! You don't even have the facts right. If some agencies OFFERED benefits, why wouldn't a studying single mum of two take them? After all, she has been living in this country legally AND paying taxes too. Just leave them alone!
I'm not Gamu's biggest fan, but she doesn't deserve all this rant from you. Pathetic...

'And you call yourselves mums!?!?!?
You lot, apart from one, have no clue about visas and how they work! You don't even have the facts right.'

Um, plenty of us are immigrants ourselves.

I'm proud to say I have been working with Amnesty International since 1988 and currently work with them still on asylum seeker aps.

My first husband was an asylum seeker (not to the UK).

Leave them alone?

You have to obey the law or you get removed and then you make it harder for every other person to get in and stay in.

It's very obvious what's a public fund and what is not in this day and age.

Gamu's mother is an economic migrant who violated the conditions of the visa.

Got political problems now, file an application for an asylum seeker.

And yes, I am a naturalised UK citizen now.

I am interested in immigration and the laws regarding immigration to the UK.

The onus is on the applicant and IME it's much more forgiving than in other nations in which I have lived.

It is not hard to determine what no recourse to public funds means.

@expatinscotland

I actually meant you... the rest don't seem to be very enlightened about visas and from what some are writing it is very obvious they are NOT immigrants!
It's OK by me if she took £144 a month (16K in total) to look after her 2 fatherless children. This is nothing compared to the idiots that milk the system on a way bigger scale, fathering children from north to south and getting every single benefit possible and impossible, including incapacity benefits for a self-diagnosed bad back! And that's a young man in his 20s, having 10 children by 10 different UNEMPLOYED girls, who all live on mine and yours "contribution". And cases like this are not rare at all! These people sicken me! And I guess Gamu's mum saved these scumbags' lives by looking after them!

The HMRC didn't make any efforts either to check this family's benefits. They just supported the benefits application and continued paying them for 8 (EIGHT!) years!!!

So the question is: is Gamu's mum such a criminal that has to be deported? They still need nurses in Scotland you know.

The thing that I don't agree with is why they are saying they will be shot by Mugabe when her mum came on a Fresh Talent visa. Is it because Gamu entered the X-Factor?

sorry, 3 fatherless children, typo

oxicute - the question is not whether her mum is 'such a criminal'. She's not being deported for being a criminal. She simply no longer has leave to remain. And I think we call ourselves mums because we have children. Not because we get riled up over reality tv shows.

errrmmmm.... who started this trend here?
And why are they not renewing visa for someone trying to fill a highly unemployable and non-solicited vacancy? I rest my case...

Mums... A mother would do anything to provide for her children and not be quick to judge other mothers trying to do so!

Have a nice evening.

Quote from the Daily Mail:

GAMU'S NOT SPECIAL
Fresh from being dismissed by Chery Cole, X Factor contestant Gamu Nhengu learned that her family's visa application had been rejected and she might have to return to Zimbabwe. Then there's also the complication of her mother's alleged £16.000 benefit fraud.
Yet a moronic X Factor mob is now protesting against the decision out-side her COUNCIL house and more than 200,000 'fans' have joined a Facebook site demanding she be allowed to stay in the country.
No doubt the same people would, on any other day, be protesting against people staying illegally in this country, taking 'their' benefits and 'their' council homes.
Just because she can sing, does'nt mean Gamu should be entitled to cheat the system.

Also read that Gamu's grandparents still live in Zimbabwe, no mention of their lives being under threat, so why the sudden news that Gamu will be shot if she goes back home, don't understand this, could it be a ploy to stay in the UK?