Elzbieta Olszewska, 80, had been living alone in her flat in Warsaw before arriving in the UK last September. Her only child, Michal Olszewski, 52, an aeronautical engineer who lives in Lincoln with his wife, had been travelling regularly to the Polish capital to support her.
Olszewski has been living in the UK since 2006, initially as a EU citizen. He subsequently became a British citizen and has dual Polish-UK nationality. As his mother has become increasingly frail he wanted her to move to the UK so he and his wife could care for her properly. There is a legal route under the settlement scheme for people in Olszewski’s situation to bring parents to the UK.
Olszewska arrived in the UK last September on a six-month visitor visa and shortly afterwards the application, containing all the correct information, was made for her to live permanently in Britain with her son and his wife. Until a few days ago the family had heard nothing from the Home Office although the application had been lodged in good time before the six-month visa expired.
But on 25 March the Home Office finally responded, informing the family: “Unfortunately your application is not valid and we are unable to accept it.”
The rejection letter went on to say: “The required application process for someone applying as a family member of a relevant naturalised British citizen is to use the appropriate paper form. Your application was made online. There is no right of appeal in respect of an invalid application.”
Then why the fuck do they have an online form for it?
To print and mail it maybe. Not that uncommon when signatures are legally required, although in that case I would expect clear instructions on the form. And also a “we don’t do that here” response shortly after handing it in via email, since it wouldn’t be hard to filter for that kind of stuff
And everyone’s hands are tied, and no one can do anything because…?
It’S tHe LaW.
That’s what the previous Minister of Justice in Norway said when asked about why cannabis is illegal.
In Germany, some conservative politician said quite literally that “weed is banned because it’s an illegal drug”.
These excuses are valid for people bound by a law, but not for the people making them.
Well, it’s not broccoli
The british empire cannot afford to be weakened by some foreign element. They will breed their finest idiots themselves.
The rejection letter went on to say: “The required application process for someone applying as a family member of a relevant naturalised British citizen is to use the appropriate paper form. Your application was made online. There is no right of appeal in respect of an invalid application.”
Jfc. Is the UK turning into America or what??
So what she used online instead of a paper application?
The UK voted to leave the EU because a slim majority wanted to kick out all the immigrants.
Jfc. Is the UK turning into America or what??
Yes. The axis plans to rise again, reversed polarities. I guess it’s only fair since the Earth’s magnetic poles flipped. 🤷♀️
The UK is just a tad bit ahead of the US.
The US is going to have more and more of these stories soon.
No, this process takes 10-15 years for an applicant to get permission to enter the US, and once the applicant is in the country, the residency application takes as much as a year, well past the expiration of the initial travel authorization.
During this limbo period, it is best to hide from law enforcement to avoid ending up in a deportation camp in el Salvador or Guantanamo.
