UK Yankee News

Recent news about the increases in application fees for families announced by the IND has prompted members of UK Yankee to form an Advocacy Group, to give members a voice on immigration and other issues.
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On 3 January 2006, The Sun published allegations of corruption at the Public Enquiry Office (PEO) in Croydon. The newspaper’s central claim was that officials were demanding “sex for visas”. Other forms of misconduct and lax security were also alleged. The Sun said that its story was based on information provided by a former Home Office employee and member of staff at the PEO, Anthony Pamnani. On 9 January, the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality, Tony McNulty, announced that the Home Office had set up a formal inquiry into the allegations.

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An American woman married to a Croydon teacher for nearly four years has been told to leave the UK because her marriage is not authentic.

Lisa Barrett, who lives with her husband Gavin on the Shrublands estate, has been told her application for a spouse visa has been refused.

Story at croydonguardian.co.uk

An American woman visiting Britain on a tourist visa has been sent home after immigration officials at Heathrow read in her diary that she had wanted to find work on a previous visit, her English boyfriend has said.

Elizabeth Louis, 23, arrived on Thursday with James Caddy, who had spent Christmas with her in Cincinnati.

But on their arrival, Miss Louis was questioned by immigration officials and had her bags searched.

Mr Caddy, 26, had to leave the room and later found out that officials had decided his girlfriend could not stay. She telephoned him at 3am to say she was being sent home because of a diary entry.

Not an unusual story, but this time it's the TELEGRAPH!!!!

wow.

all the gory deets here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/14/ndiary14.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/14/ixhome.html