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Garza Family
"please don't forget me and my family"
Agata
Garza
Last minute attempts to keep the
family in the UK, have failed Agata, Dusan, Nikki, Adrian and baby Vanesa
were deported at 2.50 this afternoon.
The escort officer allowed Agata to speak to me from the plane. She was
absolutely distraught and obviously had not succeeded in refusing
to get on the plane. Apparently immigration have 'lost' all Dusan's documentation
so he has no passport or identification papers.
Azmina, (solicitor) tried to get an injunction to stop the deportation
and also requested 3 days 'grace' to lodge the Judicial Review - but immigration
were not prepared to accept anything other than written documentation
to stop the deportation.
Agata's last words were - "please don't forget me and my family"
Kindest Regards to all those who supported the campaign, Joan Moon
for Garza Family Campaign
Joan.Moon@Blueyonder.co.uk
Garza Family - Snatched Again - 6th attempt by Home
Office to deport the Garza's
At 6.00am on Sunday morning the 20th October, the Garza family were once
again awoken by an 'immigration snatch squad'. Dusan the father was handcuffed
and then all the family (mother Agata, Nikola, Adrian, Vanesa) were put
into a van, taken to a local police station and then to Tynsley house
for removal today Monday 21st October.
The family solicitor is now negotiating with the Home Office to stay the
removal.
Another foul up by immigration, there are no outstanding removal orders
against any of the family.
Last May the Home Office admitted they were wrong not to hear separate
asylum claims for Agata and Vanesa and released all the family from Harmondsworth
Detention/removal Centre, pending asylum claims from both. These claims
have not yet been heard.The Home Office have broken
their promise.
Background:
Nikola's Diary
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/letters/news27/nikola.html
Letter from Nikola to David Blunkett
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/letters/News26/letter.html
Family history:
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/letters/news25/garzova-family.html
Statement from Garza Family Campaign
When is a promise not a promise - ?
In May of this year the Home Office agreed to substantively consider
both Agata Garzova's and Vanesa Garzova's applications for asylum. Following
this agreement their solicitor, Azmina Hansraj, signed a Consent Order
(as did the Home Office solicitors) withdrawing an application for a Judicial
Review.
Agata applied for asylum on March 11th. The Home Office refused to accept
her application, although this was her first application having previously
been treated as a dependant of her husband. In May however, the Home
Office agreed to accept her application. She has not been interviewed
about her application for asylum. A decision on her application has been
made on information provided in her husband's application. She has new
information she wishes to be considered. She has been waiting for an interview
and/or a SEF form to complete, arrangements have not been made for either
of these options. Therefore the Home Office has not considered her asylum
application or kept its promise to substantively consider her application.
Vanesa has also submitted an asylum application. Again, the Home
Office initially refused to accept this application and only after the
Judicial Review application was submitted, conceded to consider her application. Vanesaâs
application has also been considered on information previously submitted
in her fatherâs application. Vanesa has a separate claim from
her parents on account of her medical condition which is a direct
result of the racial attack upon her mother in Slovakia. Vanesa has not
been issued with a SEF Minorâs form. This is the correct procedure
to allow her application to be made. This clearly has not been done. Again
the Home Office has not considered her asylum application or kept its
promise to substantively consider her application.
Questions I ask -
How do you consider an asylum application without giving the applicant
the opportunity to state their grounds?
Is the Home Office allowed to totally ignore all agreements signed
on their behalf by their solicitors?
Why
bother to have a system (however unfair) when officers of the government
are able to make decisions and take action in total disregard of that
system?
Will the
UK government ever start to respect the basic Human Rights of all individuals?
Joan Moon for Garza Family Campaign
Joan.Moon@Blueyonder.co.uk
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