'Without proof of my status, I lost my job. To add insult to injury, after a lifetime of paying taxes, I was also told I couldn’t access any support.' I ✍️ Winston Jones on the Windrush scandal leaving him homeless
I’ve spent years fighting it, but that fight is still not over.
As my grandmother got older, my mother felt that London would be a good place for me to build my life. So in 1972 – when I was just 16 – I moved from Jamaica to the UK. The people of this country have been on the streets dying of hunger because of the Home Office’s hostile environment policies I became a victim of these policies in 2014. I had recently renewed my passport, and the authorities that had produced my new documents hadn’t re-applied the Indefinite Leave to Remain stamp that I automatically got when I moved here more than 40 years prior.
That was the beginning of all my troubles. When I approached the authorities to fix this, they said that they had no record of me – even though I had lived here for decades.
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