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by rachellynn1972 » Fri Jun 27, 2014 7:39 pm
I will like to share my experience, I had already made a complaint to UKBA regarding this issue, I and my husband are coming back from holiday from France, I am an eu national and my husband is a non eu national. When we are leaving to France, we got no problem, entering France and leaving France. The problem started when we landed at the Belfast International Airport. As I am disabled, I needed a special assistant that came to pick us up at the plane, as we were going through to the immigration officer, we noticed that they are watching my husband, I am on a wheel chair, my husband and the special assistant was with me. the immigration officer in Belfast, he asked for our passport and my husband presented both passport to him, we noticed he started looking the computer and writing things down which took almost 10min and when he raised his head he ask were we coming fro from and we said France and he asked my husband have you ever have an immigration problem, my husband replied non that I am aware of, he wasn’t talking politely but was shouting and disgracing us and he point to a stamp on my husband visa which was writing at the back and my husband answer him that the stamp was when he applied for visa 5yrs ago and refused and he reapplied and was granted with 10days later. he started shouting that you said you don’t have immigration problem and we replied him that we don’t considered that as immigration problem because my husband has never been arrested, deported or detained before so refusing a visa and applying again it not a problem and moreover what does that got to do with his resident card. the immigration officer was so rude, and he handed my husband a paper that he is detaining him and said to me that I can go, I replied back to him do I look like I can go and my husband said his wife is going no where and moreover I am her carer. 3 of us, me my husband and the special assistant have to waiting in a corner for more almost an hour until he answer the rest people coming and when inside the office. When he came out he handed my husband his passport and said the problem has been cleared and we replied there was no problem in the first place, I am here a eu national and disable with my husband, you are holding his valid eea resident card, what is the problem.
What anger my husband most is that I am with him, you don’t need to make a phone call or anything and we are travelling together with no problem until we get to Belfast. Anyway I have make a complaint and waiting for reply. I am writing here if there any law I can used against them or make a claim. What does a mark of visa refusal of more than 5yrs ago got to do with a valid resident card, not even a new resident card but has been issued for almost 2yrs ago but this is first time we travelled out together. He has travelled alone through gatwick before and wasn’t harrased that way but this is a harassment and humiliation on me because everyone are watching us as if we have done a crime. Any help on what more to do against this humiliation will be welcome. I called today the local immigration branch and the woman on phone said he should not have detained him or issue him any paper that he is been detained.
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