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by Zerubbabel » Sat Aug 31, 2019 1:31 pm
Hello Oliver
If you deleted the footage from your i Phone, it must be on your "Deleted" items folder. No idea how it works on Android.
Sorry to hear about your experience. Airline staff is not particularly nice when it comes to handle particular situations.
The decision is not theirs. For each inbound passenger to the UK, the Home Office receives some details through the Advance Passenger Information system. If someone is unwanted for any reason: bad immigration history, cancelled visa, previous deportation... the airline staff is informed and they have no choice than to remove the person from the flight. Otherwise, they risk a fine. So for them, it's a no brainer but still they have the duty to handle situations like these humanly and professionally. There is no reason to scare people or humiliate them over this kind of incidents.
No foreign national has an absolute right to enter the UK. Everyday people coming from VISA free countries such as USA, Australia or Canada are denied entry at UK airports and put in next flight back home. It's enough to give suspect or inconsistent answers the Immigration Officer to risk being denied entry. It's the same if someone is coming on visa waiver or similar. They are more cautious with EEA nationals and their family, because they are offered more protection against removal and refusal of entry, but it's not absolute.
Your wife applied for asylum in the UK at one point. Even if the process is confusing, Home Office don't accept excuses as people are provided with translators if they request it. The problem is usually any failed attempt to stay permanently in the UK means the person is no longer allowed to visit in the future. There are plenty of people who applied for residences on family or other grounds and failed, they can't later obtain visitor visas as this attempt is recorded on their immigration history and triggers systematic refusals. Actually it's one of the major risks of trying to stay in the UK, even by lawful means, because failure means no visits in the future.
You can see with your MP. Where you used to vote before when you were in the UK.