For those who didn’t know, the lady in most of the photographs on my site is my partner of what is getting on to be 5 years. As anyone who’s met us in person will attest, we may as well have been married for those 5 years too. Except we don’t argue as much.
My partner has been over here for probably 2 and a half years, maybe a little longer if you add it all up, on a 2 year working visa and holidays besides that (She’s Australian, and the first part of our relationship was long distance.) I’ve been over to Australia far too many times for someone who is terrified of flying.
During most of her time working in the UK she’s been dealing with young offenders. You know, the under-16 street scum who threaten old ladies, stab people and claim benefits without intending to do an honest days work in their lives. Benefits that get paid for by taxpayers. Like my girlfriend. She pays taxes so UK doley’s can buy beer and fags. The same doleys she used to help every single day. She’s put back more to the Leicestershire community than most people I can think of, but this counts for nothing to Immigration. Oh no.
Now her 2 year visa has come to and end and she has applied for leave to remain with her unmarried partner, that being me.
It was refused.
Why? Because we don’t have enough “formal documentation” to prove we’ve been living together for 2 years. We have 5 years worth of passport stamps, photos, memorabillia, friends, witnesses… You name it, we have it. Except… I never bothered to put her name on the gas bill.
The fucking gas bill.
They are throwing my partner of 5 years out of the UK, because unless we can find something that has both out names on, we OBVIOUSLY are a sham partnership and she’s OBVIOUSLY trying to illegally extend her stay and we OBVIOUSLY don’t want to live together forever.
UK Immigration are taking the piss. Just how, just HOW IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY does having 2 names on a gass bill prove anything. I could call up Powergen today and add Mahatma Gandhi to the statement and no-one would blink. 2 years down the line, I could probably get him a visa as an unmarried partner too. I just cannot understand why an anonymous 3rd party who can add names to statements at the drop of a hat can prove anything. Much less prove that we are a happy, loving couple who intend to live out our lives together.
But no. Because I never bothered adding my partners name to a bill she didn’t pay and because we didn’t keep the jiffy bags from parcels that were sent to us, they’re throwing her out. See, 5 years of life isn’t proof. They want Powergen to say we’re a couple.
The most sickening part of this is that we never get to see, or talk to, the people that are ruining our lives. Of course this is to stop me leaping across the table and strangling them on sight, but that’s what bulletproof glass and handcuffs are for. To think that the UK Immigration Board is splitting up two people who are more man and wife than 99% of married couples and the victims (That’s me and Coley) never even get to SEE the bastards or even know their goddamn names. It’s disgusting.
We are of course appealing, then we’ll take it to court if necessary and if we can afford to. If that fails then they’re not only deporting an Australian, but they are also deporting a British Citizen. If they think I’m going to stay put whilst they take away the only thing thats important to me they can piss right off. Someone should tear apart their families and see how they like it.
So much for a “Just and Tolerable Society”. There is no justice for anyone but the wealthy.
