This is brilliant, I've come back because I got an email saying the site wanted some input on Illegal Immigration at Dover. They ask me, a Chinese immigrant, for some input, Yay!
I overstayed my student visa years ago. I got a job, pay tax and NHI and became a naturalized British citizen, after pledging my alliegence to the Queen, which is more than a British-Born subject ever does and I am a fully paid-up, tax paying, UK citizen. I live in a shitty flat and pay more in rent than I would in a mortgage but the bank says I cannot afford a mortgage. People still call me Chinky though.
My friend was an actual illegal immigrant, shipped in to pick vegetables in muddy fields, that the British don't want to do and to live in shitty caravan with a load of other illegals. Was offered a job as a prostitute by the gang-master but she didn't fancy that so she ran like shit and escaped, got various crappy jobs and ended up turning herself in and applying for asylum. She got permission to stay and got a decent job and eventually became a naturalized British citizen. Again, earns a good wage, pays her taxes and NHI and owns her own home. She still gets called names but we are all used to that.
My other friend is Japanese, wealthy as f..k, walked in through Heathrow, off a JAL flight, travelling business. Applied to stay, asked "How much you got?" She said "How much you want?" They said, "That'll do nicely." She got indefinite permission to stay. Is not naturalized but bought a decent house, her own business, pays her taxes.
Don't knock it until you try it. We are not all scroungers looking for a free-ride. We are prepared to work, pay our way, pay our taxes and contribute to society and obey the law. Shame we still get call names and get shouted at for wearing masks in public but that's the ways it goes.
