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Originally Posted by nomadking
Which paragraph was that? The date of destruction was linked to the moving of offices. That could just as easily have happened in 2000. It would have been initiated before May 2010. That sort of thing doesn't happen overnight, especially where new offices are being built.
Not sure I would get away with getting a passport simply on providing my name.
There are still plenty of people who NEVER had any landing slips because they came from elsewhere or by another method.
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According to Channel 5, the changes to the rules involved deleting a paragraph that would have covered these people. It was removed as it was feared that it could be abused by illegal immigrants to stay in the UK and it is claimed that it was never intended to include the Windrush generation, however, staff have been interpreting this as a way to include them.
I suppose we'll never know if the order to do this came from higher up, but if these people had never made a fuss it certainly wouldn't have harmed the Government's stats when quoting how many 'illegal immigrants' they had identified and dealt with.
As a former Government pen pusher I can say that the low hanging fruit is always picked first in order to get the stats up.
Just been reading that the children of these immigrants have also been caught up in this:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...drush-children