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Subject: Yet a Frenchman or German would have had no trouble getting in to the UK. There should be no visa requirements from the Commonwealth, especially the realms.
Author: Jim (Canada)	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:21:50 01/20/05 Thu In reply to: Ian (Australia) 's message, "Member of John Howard's staff refused UK visa" on 12:25:35 01/20/05 Thu [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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Ed Harris (London)
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Date Posted: 15:25:44 01/20/05 Thu

To be honest, I think that the issue here is that the job which he wanted was not one which the PolitBuro in Whitehall could countenance, not that he was Australian. After all, there are thousands of Austrlians here at any one time and all of them do jobs which "could be done by a British person", or, for that matter, an Albanian, Peruvian or Icelandic.

The idea that someone who has secured a job here can not be let in on the grounds that there are still unemployed British people is not admissable as a reason for refusing a visa, otherwise there would be zero immigration, from Europe, the Commonwealth or anywhere else, unless there were full employment already, which there has never been.

I admit that there have been several high-profile ghastly cases of Canadians and other Britons being escorted to an aeroplane for Ottowa by immigration officials, past queues of people from Montenegro coming the other way and having their fake passports rubber-stamped, but this is not like that. This is a case of manipulating the immigration system in the case of one individual whom the government disliked for purely political reasons.

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