agniukas wrote:However, they were probably asking all those questions due to the fact that EU national was travelling with a non-EU dependant/relative. And all those questions were more relative to the non-EU national. I guess if EU national travelled alone, no such questions would be asked. Or if EU national travelled with a non-EU spouse where relationship is easier to determine (marriage cert), it would be easier to pass the immigration. But i guess when it's other family members, like brothers and sisters, aunts, etc, the relationship wouldn't be clear from the first glance and more questions would be neccessary to make sure that the relationship exists, especially if a non-EU national is arriving without any visa and only accompanied by the EU-national.
I don't think this is an isolated case at all/ or my presence resulted in her been treated like an undocumented alien or intruder. She was harrassed on a subsequent occasion when she travelled with her 3 months old infant with her driver's licences, due to the fact that the department of Justice held her passport to assess our application. She showed the officer every evidence to confirm that she is British and hence allowed to do so, she even showed her son's British Passport. They kept her in detention for nearly 3 hours before she was let out. She even ran out of food for the infant, and the officer didn't even budged that the infant was starving.
She was told she is only been let in on humanitarian reasons, and if she was to attempt travelling without her passport in future she will be properly dealt with.
A complaint has been lodged to the Ombudsman and the EU commissioner about her treatment and it is been assessed. We also reported to the department of justice, but yet to get any reply from them.
His line of questioning, his racially motivated overtone, his question about how she obtained her British Passport, left no doubt whatsoever in my mind as to what that individual was thinking.
He saw her work transfer, our birth certificate, bank statement showing allowance that i get from my Sister, my father's death certificate, evidence that i live in the same household as her (Voter register), University Tution fees payment, We verbally explained all this to the officer aswell, albeit i couldn't do it in Irish accent but Southern England, he give us no indication that he was having difficulty understanding what we were saying.
There was no need for her to be asked again" what are you coming to do here".
His intentions were to harrass and intimidate us, and harrassing and intimidating us was exactly what he did.
The thought of our treatment from those people makes me cringe and feel Nauseated.