A Campaign Has Started To Persuade The Home Office To Think Again Before Deporting A Jamaican Man Living In The Town

News item about a young man visiting Wellingborough from Jamaica who has outstayed a UK visitor permit.

Richard Da Costa walks along a street with an unidentified woman and enters a building which houses the Community Relations Council. Both are wearing white T shirts with the message ‘Let Richard stay, OK – no divided families’. Richard who is 23 and lives in Jamaica entered the UK two years ago on a six-month visitor’s permit to attend his step-father’s funeral. Since the permit expired, he has been staying in the UK illegally because he wants to support his mother and his brother who is ill with an incurable blood disorder. All appeals for him to stay have failed, and the Home Office intends to issue a deportation order. Richard will make one more appeal, supported by Wellingborough MP Peter Fry and the Wellingborough District Community Relations Council which has set up a fighting fund. Richard Da Costa is interviewed and says he feels a bit down and depressed about his situation but the campaign is strong and supportive. Interview with Paul Crofts, Community Relations Officer with Wellingborough District Community Relations Council. He says it is vitally important for the whole family to stay together now they are united after their traumatic experiences. Previously they have pursued private appeals against the Home Office decision but now it is a matter of public concern whether Richard can stay or not. Wellingborough people are now saying that this family belong in Wellingborough. This short video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Deportation; Immigration; Visas; Deportation; Home Office; Community relations