Hello all, if you are a WP holder who might benefit from this case, it would make a lot of sense for you to join these guys and fund their case a little. As tesco says, every little helps!Sky_High wrote:http://www.immigrantwelfare.co.uk/manenoor wrote:Exciting news...
Do you have link of WP Wealfare LTD ?
I am not their member so do not know hoe to join them.
Best wishes for all of you.
Having attended some of their conference calls for non-members, I am of the view that they are genuine regular people like each of us on here, trying to do something extraordinary with the little spare time they have after work.
I remember when Clause 39 of the new bill was being debated immediately after the HSMP victory last year (which would have moved the goal-posts again, after the original 4 to 5 year shift), a lot of us stated we would be happy to contribute financially to a judicial review of the WP position.
However, by the time some of these guys got together and set up their forum and contacted a barrister, quite a few of us had already received our ILR and so did not feel any pressure to pursue the action.
What we should keep in mind, even for those of us who have recently received their ILR, is that if this action is succesful, we will very likely be entitled to citizenship a year earlier (just as in the case of the pre-April 2006 HSMP guys) and there is less chance that our application for citizenship will meet with new and more unfriendly laws.
Also, to those of you who state that WPs have a legitimate expectation that they should progress on the path to citizenship based on the rules in force when they entered the country, a court has already ruled there is no such legitimate expectation for WP holders in the Ooi case. For the court's reasons, read the detailed judgment available at http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Adm ... /3221.html
I disagree with a lot of the logic advanced by the court in the judgment, but unless this decision is reversed, the government will simply not accept any arguments regarding the legitimate expectations of WP holders, however much we may wish to bleat on. Hence the reason the new case that the Immigrantwlfare guys are trying to bring is so important to WP holders (although there is no guarantee that they will win the case, but at least they are trying to do something).
All the best to everyone!