Brother came from Abroad to Heathrow -stopped for 30 mins

Just want to share my brother experience. He came back after a month of holiday from Pakistan and was stopped at Heathrow for 30 mins.

My brother said UKBA staff wasted his time by asking silly questions.

When you completed your Chartered exams, what is taxation, your clients, website etc. When my brother explained what was tax and he was asking questions which were fundamentally wrong i.e. being a Chartered accountant if i ask a question from a scientist about the chemical fusion and upon answering I try to ask some more other questions about science to which I do not have a clue and which doesn't make any sense in science. You can imagine what would be his reaction.

Anyways, after 30 mins and asking his superiors he apologized and let him go.

@ hammad1224, what's the status of your brother?

Can u pls explain what questions they asked ur brother ?
I am too going abroad in December and will come back to uk after 6 weeks.
I got visa in mid of November.
Can u pls guid me
thanks

He is on tier 1 entrp. Got his visa in May 2013.

I hope this helps.

Olasunkanmi wrote:@ hammad1224, what's the status of your brother?

@ hammad1224, the question about clients and website is normal as they can ask anything about the business, but the question about what is taxation is very silly and very insulting and your brother should have complain when asked such question.

thanks for sharing,
I been to back home for 3 weeks, at airport they asked me
why did i go on holidays, for how long, what i do here and where i am based.
Then she stamped my passport. Also she never scanned my fingerprints( do not know why?).

hammad1224 wrote:Just want to share my brother experience. He came back after a month of holiday from Pakistan and was stopped at Heathrow for 30 mins.

My brother said UKBA staff wasted his time by asking silly questions.

When you completed your Chartered exams, what is taxation, your clients, website etc. When my brother explained what was tax and he was asking questions which were fundamentally wrong i.e. being a Chartered accountant if i ask a question from a scientist about the chemical fusion and upon answering I try to ask some more other questions about science to which I do not have a clue and which doesn't make any sense in science. You can imagine what would be his reaction.

Anyways, after 30 mins and asking his superiors he apologized and let him go.

entrepreneur123 wrote:Also she never scanned my fingerprints( do not know why?).

She simply forgot?

I got stopped in heathrow for around 25 minutes, it was like he ask me to sit there. After 25 minutes he came back and said it's ok and even didn't have the manner to say atleast a sorry

What the hell, I feel like even if you got the visa by satisfying everything you have to go through the individual inspections of ukba agents whenever they see you. Isn't we called harassement and torture ?

deepakjr123 wrote:I got stopped in heathrow for around 25 minutes, it was like he ask me to sit there. After 25 minutes he came back and said it's ok and even didn't have the manner to say atleast a sorry

What the hell, I feel like even if you got the visa by satisfying everything you have to go through the individual inspections of ukba agents whenever they see you. Isn't we called harassement and torture ?

Being required to wait while the immigration officer does back office checks = torture? Get a grip.