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An Iraqi nun who wants to visit her sick sister in the UK has been denied a visa by the Home Office.
Sister Ban Madleen was driven out of Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town in the Nineveh plains, by ISIS, who took over her Dominican convent. She settled as a refugee in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdestand, where she set up kindergartens. The refugees are returning to their home towns now that ISIS have been driven out.
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The letter from UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office, gives the reasons for refusing Sister Ban a visa: that she had not provided evidence of her earnings as a kindergarten principal, and that she had not provided confirmation that the Dominican Sisters of St Catherine of Siena would fund her visit. For these reasons, the letter says the clearance officer is not satisfied that she is genuinely seeking entry for a permissible purpose.
Last week, Ahmed Hassan was sentenced to a minimum term of 34 years in prison. The previous September, he had stepped onto the District line of the London Underground and left a homemade bomb on the train. At Parson's Green tube station, the device detonated. Fortunately for the commuters, which included many children on their way to school, only the detonator of the bomb went off. On its own, it created a fireball which ran along the roof of the carriage, singeing the hair of many passengers and causing an immediate stampede away from the blast and a number of injuries. The main explosive material the of bomb, however, which was packed with shrapnel, including bolts, nails and knives, failed to detonate.
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All this happened because of a young man of Iraqi origin, who should never have been in the UK in the first place.
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Once he arrived in the UK, it took some time for the British authorities to catch up with him. When they eventually did, and he was questioned by Home Office officials, he told them he had been a member of ISIS and had been trained by the group to kill.
He claimed to be 16 years old, although the authorities believed he was probably older. The open-borders NGOs are able to advise people in Calais and elsewhere that claiming to be a "child migrant" increases the likelihood of being able to stay.
Read the rest of it, and you see how people just helped him along. He wasn't even hiding anything.
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Sounds like the UK denied her a visa to visit because she had no proof of funds to return.
In order to be granted a visa as you rightly point out you need to provide such proof. The num was applying to visit and not for Asylum.
In terms of the Parsons Green Bomber he was a refugee, he managed to get in to the country in a lorry (truck) cargo. He had no documentation and had the status of being a child. It is very difficult to return children back to war zones, although the law actually says you should seek asylum on arrival in the first destination of safety, which would most lilely be a mediterranean country and he would have had to pass through France before coming to the UK.
The UN & UNESCO, the EU and lots of other do gooder charities would have gone up the wall is we had sent a child back to war torn Syria, and the French wuldn't have accepted him now that he had succesfully made it to Britain.
The poor truck driver or his company would however have to face legal action and a hefty fine for not securing the lorry (truck) properly.
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