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Pretended to be a teenager, to gain child immigration status.
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http://www.dailymail....migration-status.html
/// He is now under investigation by immigration officials and may face deportation. ///
I wonder if he really will be deported, and I wonder if those below were deported, I bet they weren't.
/// In recent years there have been a string of cases of asylum seekers lying about their age to gain access to social housing and education in Britain. ///
/// In 2010, two Guinean asylum seekers were ejected from a secondary school after teachers discovered they were in their 20s.///
/// One, who was studying in year 11 and has now be revealed to be 23, had allegedly struck up a relationship with a 14-year-old girl at the school. ///
/// In August 2010, Rabad Hamad, who claimed to be 16 and was studying for GCSEs at a school in Oldham, Greater Manchester, was detained after officials discovered he was really 20. ///
/// He is now under investigation by immigration officials and may face deportation. ///
I wonder if he really will be deported, and I wonder if those below were deported, I bet they weren't.
/// In recent years there have been a string of cases of asylum seekers lying about their age to gain access to social housing and education in Britain. ///
/// In 2010, two Guinean asylum seekers were ejected from a secondary school after teachers discovered they were in their 20s.///
/// One, who was studying in year 11 and has now be revealed to be 23, had allegedly struck up a relationship with a 14-year-old girl at the school. ///
/// In August 2010, Rabad Hamad, who claimed to be 16 and was studying for GCSEs at a school in Oldham, Greater Manchester, was detained after officials discovered he was really 20. ///
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I understand it goes both ways.
In some ethnic groups children (particularly boys) often look older than they really are and there have been many cases where under 16s were harassed or excluded because of erroneous suspicions they were older.
It is complicated when in many cultures they are less focused or aware of birth dates than we are
In some ethnic groups children (particularly boys) often look older than they really are and there have been many cases where under 16s were harassed or excluded because of erroneous suspicions they were older.
It is complicated when in many cultures they are less focused or aware of birth dates than we are
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<<How very convenient for them.>>
Indeed it might be in some cases,
the fact remains that in some parts of this world (I think Afghanistan may be one of them) if you ask locals when they were born many will not be able to quote a year in the way we can.
In others not so convenient as in the (not uncommon) case when a boy asylum seeker travelling alone claims child status, he looks to Immigration Control to be at least 16 and when they ask him when he was born he truthfully answers 'I don't know'
The case i know of (one of many i believe) it was only after months in an adult detention centre when another asylum seeker, an uncle i think, was able to provide corroborative evidence that he was only 14.
Indeed it might be in some cases,
the fact remains that in some parts of this world (I think Afghanistan may be one of them) if you ask locals when they were born many will not be able to quote a year in the way we can.
In others not so convenient as in the (not uncommon) case when a boy asylum seeker travelling alone claims child status, he looks to Immigration Control to be at least 16 and when they ask him when he was born he truthfully answers 'I don't know'
The case i know of (one of many i believe) it was only after months in an adult detention centre when another asylum seeker, an uncle i think, was able to provide corroborative evidence that he was only 14.
This isn't news to me.
I used to work in a hostel and we had loads of 'young' asylum seekers.
Anyone with common sense could see they were in their early 20s but because the powers that be couldn't prove it (and it appeared they didn't really try) they were treated as minors.
I am sure there must be a simple blood test that will do the job but 'they' are so worried about human rights they shy away from trying to do their job.
I used to work in a hostel and we had loads of 'young' asylum seekers.
Anyone with common sense could see they were in their early 20s but because the powers that be couldn't prove it (and it appeared they didn't really try) they were treated as minors.
I am sure there must be a simple blood test that will do the job but 'they' are so worried about human rights they shy away from trying to do their job.
This man claims to be 17 years old.
http://www.guardian.c...thern-ireland-delayed
http://www.guardian.c...thern-ireland-delayed
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