[THE Bangladesh Divided Families Campaign (BDFC) was founded…]
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THE Bangladesh Divided Families Campaign (BDFC) was founded in April 1982 by a group of Bangladeshi men settled in the Oldham area, whose wives and children have been struggling, in some cases for over ten years, to exercise their legal rights under the 1971 Immigration Act to come to Britain. Since April the group has grown rapidly and now numbers around 50 families including women whose husbands have been KANTILAL Mistry is a citizen of India. He met and married his wife when visiting relatives in Britain ID 1917. sneelal, utu 1070 Chantal thain daughter, was born in 1981.
The immigration rules state that foreign men who marry British women can only settle here if the woman or one of her parents was born in Britain. Mrs. Mistry was born in Kenya and has always held a British passport.
She came to the UK 10 years ago, but because she was not born here the family is likely to be separated.
Kantilal will be forced to return to India and leave his wife and daughter who are entitled to live prevented from entering Britain.
Most of these families have exhausted the legal appeal procedure, which is carried out in England with none of the „appicants present. Some have appealed three times without success.
Overall, some 11,200 people (1981 figures) who have the right to live together in this country are being deliberately kept apart. Some have been waiting for ten years or more. here unless he wins his appeal against the decision to deport him.
For more information contact the Tameside Immigration Campaign Support Group, 35a Manchester Rd., Denton, Manchester M34 3JU.
Everton Williams.
THE Tory government has significantly increased its harassment of Ghanaians