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Home Office making a mistake .... no way ! Just wait to hear many British citizens and ILR holders and legal residents have their accounts closed en mass.The new legislation requires the banks to check the identity of every current account holder against a Home Office supplied database held by an anti-fraud organisation, Cifas. It includes details of those whom the Home Office regard as liable for removal or deportation because they are overstayers, failed asylum seekers or those who have absconded from immigration detention.
Nice to hear. Now you can get up in the morning to find that your account has been shut down by your bank without even a notice.Banks have also been told there is no requirement on them to contact account holders or require additional documentary evidence as part of the check.
It is really fair at the moment. No appeal rights, no right to defend yourself against accusation of Home Office, no right to even get a notice from a bank, the assumption that you are guilty by default unless proven otherwise and all that jazz.A Home Office spokesperson defended the introduction of the checks saying: “We are developing an immigration system which is fair to people who are here legally, but firm with those who break the rules. Everyone in society can play their part in tackling illegal migration.
So even if you now have a British passport, if you are on that list, maintained by a third party and not the government, there is nothing you can do but contact the Home Office.Banks have been told to adopt a default position of telling customers to take up the matter with the Home Office if a mistake has been made, even if they provide a passport or biometric residence permit showing they are lawfully present in Britain.
Done and topic changed to a 'Sticky'.secret.simon wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2017 8:48 pmAlso see this thread.
Mods, would it be worth merging the two threads and deleting this post?
I've sent a lengthy email providing evidence and links to articles. Got a response and it'll be looked at when parliament resumes next month.secret.simon wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:45 pmMore problematic and concerning is this part.
So even if you now have a British passport, if you are on that list, maintained by a third party and not the government, there is nothing you can do but contact the Home Office.Banks have been told to adopt a default position of telling customers to take up the matter with the Home Office if a mistake has been made, even if they provide a passport or biometric residence permit showing they are lawfully present in Britain.
Hopefully the opposition will use one of their Opposition Day debates to discuss the hostile environment strategy in Parliament. It is worth writing to your MP to raise concerns about the broad and effectively unappealable remit of this approach. And it is worth writing to the Home Affairs Committee to look into this as well.
On a point of curiosity, to whom did you send the email?
http://www.parliament.uk/business/commi ... ion-17-19/secret.simon wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2017 7:54 pmOn a point of curiosity, to whom did you send the email?
I used to think my advice disappears into the ether. Nice to know that it occasionally provokes action.
Government has lost control.sm12 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:02 amThe checks will be carried out quarterly.
Does this mean that people who reapply within 14 days or are on section 3C could face issues?
There are some people on section 3C who have received enforcement letters, so similar issues could arise here.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... immigrants
Done.secret.simon wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2017 6:42 pmIt may be worth merging this thread into the earlier one, as it is not ILR specific anyway.
I have merged your post to the the existing topic already started some time ago.greatscott wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2017 6:42 pmhttps://amp.theguardian.com/business/20 ... lders-loom
How can people check whether they are on the list held by HO?