Prats of The Week - The UKBA

'Tis a grey September Monday morning, and therefore an ideal time to award one of my prestigious and internationally renowned "Prats of The Week" Awards.

This week it goes to our old chums in the UK Border Agency (UKBA), an organisation that has already featured on this site a couple of times.

Why therefore am I awarding them a "Prats of The Week"?

Ask Professor John Tulloch (70), who appeared on the front pages as one of the bloodied, dazed victims of the 7/7 London bombings.

The Prince of Wales visited him in hospital afterwards, and proclaimed him an example of the “resilience of the British people”.

The Telegraph notes that Prof Tulloch can trace his British ancestry back to the 14th century, was born to British parents in a British colony. He has a British wife, children and brother. He was raised and educated in Britain from the age of three, has substantial assets and property here and has lived or worked in the UK for most of his life, holding a series of posts at British universities. He even held a British passport.

However, he was born to a British Army officer in pre-independence India. This makes him a “British subject without citizenship”.

Professor Tulloch took a job in Australia and was granted Australian citizenship. Unknown to him, this automatically cancelled both his British nationality and his right to live in Britain. 

Can you guess what happened next children?

Yes, that's right, when he applied to renew his British passport, it was confiscated.
Ironically he was able to return to the UK, where he has held a professorship of communications at Brunel and was head of the School of Journalism at Cardiff University, under a work permit and has spent the majority of his time in recent years in this country.

However, as he is about to semi retire, he has now been told by the UKBA that he can no longer permanently remain here and can only visit for brief periods as a tourist. He cannot apply for naturalisation.

Professor Tulloch would have more chance of staying here if he had been a perpetrator, rather than a victim, of terrorism. Just ask Ismail Abdurahman, a Somali convicted of providing a safe house for the would-be 21/7 bomber, Hussain Osman, who was excused deportation after serving his prison sentence on the grounds that his human rights would be at risk if he was returned to Somalia.

A UKBA is quoted:

“It is the responsibility of an individual to check that they will not lose a previously acquired nationality or citizenship on acquiring an additional one.” 

The UKBA, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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UKBA - Protecting Our Borders!

On Monday I wrote that Nanny's ever "efficient" and "respected" Borders Agency "in the spirit of keeping our country safe from felons and evil doers, has banned Dog The Bounty Hunter from coming to the UK this week to appear on Celebrity Big Brother."

I went on to conclude:

"I dare say that we all feel a lot safer knowing that the UKBA are clearly on the ball!"

Well then, imagine my "shock" and "surprise" when I read that the UKBA had managed to let a violent crossbow wielding stalker into the UK despite being warned before he arrived that he was dangerous.

The Argus reports that the UKBA has now apologised to the family of Dr Alison Hewitt, who was subjected to a four-month stalking campaign by her jilted lover, Al Amin Dhalla.

Dr Hewitt’s mother, Pamela Hewitt, had written to the agency in November 2010 warning them about Dhalla.

The letter warned the UKBA that he had an extensive criminal record for violence, was banned from the US, used three aliases and had previously entered the UK illegally.

Despite giving the agency his passport number and flight details of when and where he would return to Britain, Dhalla was able to walk through immigration unhindered and begin a terror campaign against the family.

For why did the UKBA allow this man into the country?

Simples...it seems he failed to declare his previous convictions when applying for a visa.

Aha!

Tip for Assange: don't tell anyone who you are when you try to leave the country!

Dhalla was arrested at Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, where Dr Hewitt worked. Police found a loaded crossbow, a large knife and a fuel-soaked envelope addressed to Mrs Hewitt in his car.

Way to go UKBA!

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UKBA In The Doghouse

The reputation of Nanny's UK Border Agency has taken a heavy pounding of late (ironically its past CEO, Lin Homer, was promoted to running HMRC), as such it is keen to improve its standing.

Therefore in the spirit of keeping our country safe from felons and evil doers, the UKBA has banned Dog The Bounty Hunter from coming to the UK this week to appear on Celebrity Big Brother. Admittedly, they have probably done him a favour given that those who appear on the show are humiliated and subjected to mental torture. However, their rationale (he was involved in a murder 33 years ago) seems a tad off beam given that others with criminal convictions are allowed into the UK.

The Guardian notes:

"The refusal letter from the UK Border Agency says: "Records show that you were convicted of one offence which carried a sentence of five years. According to those records, that conviction is not spent." It also says the purpose of his visit is not "of a sufficiently compelling nature" to exercise discretionary powers to let him in.

Other US stars have been allowed into the UK despite convictions, including the boxer Mike Tyson, who was granted entry in 2000 at the discretion of then-home secretary Jack Straw, despite his conviction for rape."

Still I dare say that we all feel a lot safer knowing that the UKBA are clearly on the ball!

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