UK Home Office Rejects An African Citizenship After Nearly 50 Years In UK, Says He's Not British
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- UK Home Office Rejects An African Citizenship After Nearly 50 Years In UK, Says He's Not British - Imagine living in a country for nearly half a century, raising a family, contributing to society, and then being told you're not actually one of them. That's the shocking reality facing Nelson Shardey, a 74-year-old Ghanaian man who arrived in the UK in 1977 and has called it home ever since. Despite building a life of service and success, British bureaucracy has deemed him an outsider.
Mr. Shardey's story is one of dedication and heartbreak. He arrived on a student visa, but a military coup in Ghana left him stranded.
Armed with determination and ambition, he embarked on a path that led him to become a pillar of his community. From studying accountancy to working various jobs, including making iconic British products like Mother's Pride bread and Kipling's Cakes, Nelson's story is woven into the very fabric of British society.
He built a new life from the ground up, working hard, marrying British women, and raising two sons who are now pillars of British society - a scientist and a PR executive. He even received a bravery award for tackling a robber!
But in 2019, when Nelson applied for a passport to visit his homeland after his mother's passing, his world was turned upside down. The Home Office informed him that despite his decades-long residency, he was not recognized as a British citizen. Now, he faces the daunting prospect of deportation and separation from the only home he has ever known.
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One of these days they will tell their Prime Minister to go back to India.
He is from Kenya.
😂😂 I presume exactly as well
@@ledwinmampho1861 He claims being of Indian parentage and a firm/practising Hindu. Indians are generally racists but always call the British Racists. Commenting on my experience.
@@agnescraig2912rasismn is in all ..I am mix brown and I see it all ..stop branding one race
He is originally from India , if he was born in Kenya or Tanzania it doesn't matter
No matter where you are and what you do DONT FORGET WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM. Your ROOT MATTERS.
Thank you
You can't forget, the entire world is here for that. The world reminds every single black of their root, known as Africa.
@@Moh-jt8vslets all invest in Africa, not in the west!
😂 that part he is NOT a British citizen nor a national maybe a British subject 🤷🏽♀️ imagine 500 years of selling out your own people tribesmen and countrymen 1593-1878 and your fate is similar to those who were betrayed trafficked SOLD out by duplicitous west afriCANTS 🤷🏽♀️ I say what goes around comes around.... he must now beg his colonial masters for extended stay UK 🇬🇧 or go home Ghana 🇬🇭
A goat will always be a goat no matter where its born . It will only have a document to say which country. Get it
Sad story...Africans and blacks in the diaspora must build Africa to gain respect and dignity....
They build fine home and help their relatives. But the evil law and goverment are the one to build Africa. African .
Yes, that is right, but our politicians need to stop corruption and start development first.
My concern is that we as Africans are always blaming our governments and leaders. Unfortunately there is an expiry date for everything. People of the same nation cannot even look at each other in the eye because of Tribalism. What are we as individuals, families, churchs doing to help our own people instead of just blaming leaders year in year out. The Africans that have gone out of their countries for greener pastures what contribution are they making to help their own people? If I am also corrupt and a crook like my government what right do I have to speak against them. Africans let us start building each other and our continent. Our greed is too much♥️♥️♥️
[:"I believe the world will respect Afrika and her escendants when she become torally free and independent like China, Russia, N. Korea, Iran, America, Europe and Cuba Forward ever backward never."]
Soo sad
Africa is beautiful and rich. Let's hold our leaders accountable and stop this embarrassment.... It has gone on for far too long...
This is exactly what I have always say. Our governments are responsible for how other countries treat us Africans
This is total humiliation and embarrassment. Why do we naively think these WASPS love n respect us. They dont. Now Nelson should have changed his status immediately after marrying. He did not. All these 50 years working n living how does he think his status has changed. It does not matter until u have goune thru the steps of acquiring residency and then citizenship. That is his fault. Let us not blame the British govt.
We have no balls to do that,the only hope we must wait untill Jesus comes back,sometimes i wonder why did we as for independence. We are our own worst enemies. But few more years remaining.
Then why the Africans are coming to UK?
Africa is divided into different countries mansion your own country don't say African mansion your own country please.
The devil 👿 will never love you wake up Africa 🌍
bro chill, this is just another story of a man not doing proper immigration paper work when he should'd had...
They are stealing all over again from Africa and Africans. That Indian PM, is the same as any colonizer!
Plenty Africans from Africa and the West Indies, in this situation didn't do their paperwork, and those who came here on their parents passport 🛂 never been back to their homeland for 30-40 years ago a joke.
@@KlaudiaShaefferr you mean they are treated well there
God bless you for saying that
Is this his first time to attempt traveling out if the country?How did he stay there so long without compliance? How can such an educated man neglect something so crucial.Something doesn't add up...
Never to get to know the whole story. Whilst I agree that the Home Office picks the low hanging fruit always and ignores all the millions who should have been deported, cannot understand that he and his sons do not have the £17k saved. Am a migrant too and would pay up and stay,
Exactly the question I asked myself.
Staying laws were different back then. It’s the same disgusting treatment given to those in the windrush area. He’s served and added to the country rather than been a burden. It’s shocking that he gets spoken of so badly on here when he’s given more in his 50 years than some families born here give in generations as they live on benefits - thinking their entitled to take from a system just because they were born here.
He came and stayed illegally like so many others .He failed to apply for residency many years ago ?????.Now it has come back to bite him Unfortunately he is one of many but rules are rules and it's only a matter of time before we get our country back
Listen everyone... so long as you are not native brit forget it... your citizen can be revoked anytime... my mind is set to expect anything
Best go home now then before you are caught & banned from UK
Stupid question applying for British citizenship never cross his mind??
😤The channel forgot to mention a very important fact, he’s even done jury duty. How can an illegal immigrant do jury duty? The Home Office is just being racist and nasty. The strange thing is, this always happens to decent, law-abiding people who have contributed through hard work for decades. They’ve paid their taxes, and this is how they’re rewarded.
Many ppl live on green card and don't apply for citizenship
@@sarahashun1180 Well put
You can apply, but what will you do if you get turned down and have young British-born children to raise at the time?
@@sarahashun1180jury duty is done by random selection from the electoral register
Obligation to serve on juries is tied to right to vote in local elections by Juries Act 1974 section 1. As a commonwealth citizen he is eligible to vote in local elections
Basic Lesson: "No place like home".
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There is a thing call promised land which can be your new home
@@spiritofecstasy23 by that I supposed you meant, an already built place, which wasn't built by you. It's called, being an opportunist.
Just so you know, what is given can be taken. A place incapable of our flaws can't be called home.
You can easily strip a foreigner from citizenship, it's almost impossible to revoke the citizenship of an indigenous Citizen.
Make no mistake, Your home is irreplaceable, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
If you're abroad, I hope you see yourself as a pilgrim, and come back as soon you're comfortable and start something lasting here. Your home is your home.
@@olaoluwaojo2190 🤝🏿👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Home is where the heart is .!!!!
He broke the law. He was a student in the UK. He should have gone back to Ghana, but he preferred to stay illegally.
Forget all the bollocks you sound like a jobs worth,good luck to the fella . I'm white😊
UK broke the "International Law" when they colonised almost the whole world. Time to remove and deport all UK citizens in their former colonies for illegally occupying those countries. It is already happening to the French in West Africa.
Nelson broke the law really ???
Staying laws were different back then. It’s the same disgusting treatment given to those in the windrush area. He’s served and added to the country rather than been a burden. It’s shocking that he gets spoken of so badly on here when he’s given more in his 50 years than some families born here give in generations as they live on benefits - thinking their entitled to take from a system just because they were born here.
He is a Ghanaian, let him embrace Ghana and be happy to go home to mama Africa.
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Crybaby should be deported like yesterday
I have been telling fellow Africans to develop our continent for the past 15 years. Every time I mention DEVELOPMENT, not a single African ever approves my comment. Continuous development is the key that will make us superior to those nations we want to migrate to. Asians are well ahead.
The first step to development is to remove corrupt money pocketing political leaders otherwise there will be no money to develop. If Africa is develop we won't all be in European countries where we are treated like S on a daily basis.
Am an Indian migrant too and always make the same comment on Indians which is considered the largest democracy and no wars. But Indians with out of control population like Africans must take parenting responsibility very seriously so as to avoid being treated like S as your comment suggests.
How do you remove those corrupt guys and as you call them leaders.
No they want your country 😡
@RobertsDigital You are making too much sense and saying what needs to be done I applaud you 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Facts 💯 percent !
Why did he not made sure his papers are straight. Working and paying taxes doesn’t make one a citizen of a country.
[:"Afrika should have the same policy towards UK CITIZENS."]
At least someone is talking sense here why can't we Africans use the same rules on them
@@betsyakoko6810 [:"We see that unjust peoples dont believe in equitable treatment; they will ditch it out but refuse to take it. i help me you help me and i will be ok. If you do to others as others do to you, you'll earn their respect."]
An African that have dual citizen then i believe this is What the evil white racist law maker Will be doing. Because old age cost money for the goverment. Every African should wisen up and have plan B. Don’t save all your money there and invest in house over there.
They are facing it too believe me.
The reality is very far from what we really think being sentimental.
After how many years he remembering Ghana 😢😢
What a same he never visit his mother when she was alive 😭😔😔 what kind of heart he got
How much he love loves money than his own family and country
Hypocrisy. Is there any difference between Nelson's family and that of the current UK's PM?
Very good question!
Sunak thinks he's more whiter than the real white British !!
They will never accept him as one of their own !! He's just being foolish!!
An Indian,, who is just a shade lighter than a ghanian wants to kick the ghanian out because he thinks us whites will love him more !!
What an idiot!
Yes, the prime minister is a British citizen.
One is not overstaying is visa the other is
@@tobiisiba1641 Law will be interpreted according to who you are. Sadly, Nelson is no longer young, not a big guy and all these are probably coming with a twist of racism.
@@raymondorenda7385 Is he still married to a British Citizen?
Something doesn't add up, this guy with education didn't know about his status all this time?
this happens, this is just another story of a man not doing proper immigration paper work when he should'd had
@@KlaudiaShaefferrexactly
@@KlaudiaShaefferr Is the Paper work there to Keep British Industry IN Native British Hands!? It's Failing like Dominoes to Other folks 👍. Al the Best! 😂
😤 The channel forgot to mention a very important fact, he’s even done jury duty. How can an illegal immigrant do jury duty? The Home Office is just being racist and nasty. The strange thing is, this always happens to decent, law-abiding people who have contributed through hard work for decades. They’ve paid their taxes, and this is how they’re rewarded.
This is not the whole truth just sensationalise and emotional sentiments are on full display. Am a migrant too and would quietly have paid up. Not a huge amount like the story suggest for a ten year lease on his life.
Come on. He had over 45 years to apply. He is at fault for leaving it so long.
He takes procrastination to a new level
@@dennykeaton9701My question answered, I do not know why he did not apply when his kids turned 7years old.
But he can apply anytime he wishes as long as he fulfilled the requirements, and especially as he entered the country legally.
@@touchnot7334 He has not been denied. He has been directed down the route appropriate for him. Those are the costs now. One can't just live in the UK for decades and think you somehow qualify for citizenship etc without following the legal process.
This is simply abuse of power by British govt officials.
It's Europe, does anyone expect anything different?
sis chill, this is just another story of a man not doing proper immigration paper work when he should'd had
How about you chill, based on your name I'm assuming you're German and a supporter of the EU(Germany along with mostly American companies/hedge funds snapped up whole sectors of former USSDR countries businesses at penny's to the dollar)if It weren't for USA military pumping Billions (plus other funding from USA) Germany would've been like the DDR(I was in Berlin when the wall got opened)pre unification pre EU. My point is it's OK for millions of former Balkans /Slavs (now because of EU called eastern europe)to get every right, privilege,status,help, that nationals get without ever doing anything for it except being wyts.but not a non wyt who actually did something for the country and came from a former colony and Commonwealth nation .Germany and the EU are a facade (without exploitating former USSDR countries Germany would be broke)Brexit was the right move for UK.
@KlaudiaShaefferr
And yes I know
who
Klaudia Shaefferr is, in case you try to get cheeky as the Brits say.
Your negative comment about Europe does not advance his case. If Europe is that bad why is Europe Not Russia have a massive problem with illegal Migration and human smugglers even as I comment. It is a one way ticket only to Europe and the West. All legal visas have being mopped up by Indians Nigerians Chinese Pakistanis. The figures speak for themselves unless you wish to be in denial mode.
Make it a priority in life to get papers in order, whatever the sacrifice. Home Office shows no mercy.
Yeah but illegal ppl come and even Brits are forgotten. I've lived there and see the frustration. Migrants build countries. Their contributions should count.
@@PositiveVibes3984 the ones who come legally do. He stayed illegally for years and probably avoided a lot in taxes and benefited from the system.
@@PositiveVibes3984exactly!❤
Well said.
Let them stop calling themselves British citizens. Your root is yr root.
That is why Argentina still calling Falkland Argentina and the British have no business being there.
Get some basic education.
@@user-ru5xz3lz9c The first British company we should kick out is BPselling us our own oil at 400 markup.
@@user-ru5xz3lz9c That is my problem I missed that, I never finished primary school . I would appreciate it if you send Prince Andrew to teach me, his ass is broke he can use the cash
@@user-gu1sn5zc1y 😁
A Nigeria man was said to me, he is never coming back to Nigeria because, British has fully accepted him, l laugh and am still laughing.
A man who ignored his own mother for 50 years wants to come after her death to do what? Now everyone must rally around him and feel pity for him.
No pity for this man. No visit to mom for 50 years. Now u want come to her funeral. Selfish idiot. Karma is always king
Interesting 🤔
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He went to the UK to study, and has ample time to go back to his country which he chose to stay on his own accord thinking staying there for years will qualify him citizenship. This will set a very bad precedence for others; they will all do the same by starting families in a foreign country, then feel entitled to be treated as citizens of that country. Pure manipulation and unethical in all aspects; we should not feel sorry for him at all. He chose to over stay, his stay there for years knowing very well that his not a citizen and now we should feel sorry for him? He should have applied for citizenship before starting a family and working there; it’s all his own decisions that got him where his is.
You miss the point, he was over stay for 49 years
Yes but the Home Office has been found guilty of Not deporting overstayers because their countries will not accept them. Instead of denying business visas to reluctant countries like India the Home Office should be challenged.
He was wrong over stay for 49 years it is crazy
@@agnescraig2912 india is not relucatant what ? They are one of the few who self finance their return flights for deportees. In exchange, india gets preferential treatment in visas and migration and it is BECAUSE they have fair policies with the western countries and also because Indians largely do not end up on social benefits along with chinese. They are the only 2 nations in asia whose migrants consistently outearn the natives and contribute. When was the last time you saw hindus or chinese in gangs or crime in the west ? Its consistently africans or arabs.
How did he manage to work for all those years at well-known companies in the UK?
@@edward6438 that’s my question too?
This is what we are talking about invest in your father home nothing like home
he couldn't return because of the coup in his country. However, this is just another story of a man not doing proper immigration paper work when he should'd had
Amen Amen Amen 🙏 Amen Amen
I know of a British man who lived in an African country for 40 years where as a British male married to a local woman he had no right to stay in that country but got the right to stay by the popular support he got from the citizenry there. Humanity seems to be more plentiful in a third-world country than in our so advanced European society.
Lesson: Never despise your roots. If he had prepared himself a place and a business in his original country this wouldn't have been a worry to him.
you say that but still your folks are running away in droves and boats to come here
Sounds like he never bothered to apply for British Citizenship.
Furthermore he arrived in the UK as a citizen of Ghana, Ghana having gained independence in 1957. My own parents, born in Jamaica in 1920 and 1925, moved to the UK in 1957 but did not apply for British citizenship after Jamaica gained independence in 1962. So come 1981 a defence industry company advised my brother that they can't hire him for a year of work experience as part of his "Sandwich" degree in Electrical Engineering unless our parents become British citizens, That's the reason they undertook the initiative in 1981 to apply for British citizenship, after automatically becoming Jamaican citizens in `1962 though born British subjects in the 1920s.
Just marrying a white British woman and doing this and that charity work in the community doesn't make anyone a British citizen. Citizenship isn't up to his white mates he has a drink with down the pub, who claim they don't see colour ( on grounds he is a black person they know ).
I literally just made a similar comment as well. 🙌
Windrush episode
Exactly
He married a British citizen, which would have prevented the Home Office from deporting him in those days.
Building the African continent and people
Imagine not having a driver's license for 50 years then being stopped by the police.... So if you are an illegal despite being under the radar for 50 years!
His own mistake.So he never thought once to travel on vacation out of UK which required a passport to know his status in that country?
When you immigrate into another Country first and first of all apply for citizenship. This is not a joke! You apply for Driving licence, work permit then why not Citizenship since 1977 when it was much more easier? This is also deception on his part at 27 years in 1977 because he knows if he became a British citizen in 1977 he could have been conscripted to war if the country was at war. Most play the I do not know book game and live off the system without applying for citizenship. And if he does not understand the home office saying he is not British it is the fact only before the Ghana independence can you claim British citizenship and after you have to apply. Most of our parents before the African independence some 1960 were automatic British citizens called British Nationals Overseas.
These people think that we're talking 👄 Animals, they don't consider us as humans, so sad 😞
Well educated and integrated well in British society for very long time, how come he mysteriously failed to know his legal status in UK?
Now, 'Deportation Drive' against Migration disaster in UK 👍
This is a wake up call for all us who are British Citizen. I came from West Africa just like Nelson 49 years ago, studied, worked, paid my taxes, raised two children, own my home and now retired and all of a sudden you do not want us! This exactly what they did to the windrush generation. The British are very good on using and discarding people but it is coming to hunt them. See the state of the country! I hope Nelson wins his case against the Home Office.🙏
British Citizen??? Huh?
He didn't apply for citizenship so he is not a British citizen. I'm sure the same thing would apply in most countries in Africa.
It’s not the British. It’s Indians running the Home Office
He didn’t regularise his stay in the United Kingdom.
The Windrush situation is different. They were already British citizens. They didn’t need passports. They had boarding passes, which the Home office lost, when they were updating and digitising their systems.
Listen after 42 years leave the man alone. He wasn't hiding. Why home office didn't find him when they were collecting his taxes. He has cancer for mercy sakes?
@@PositiveVibes3984 I agree with you but lets not make this about race because it is not.
I read this news online. The question i asked myself was so all the years he was in the UK he never visited Ghana? If he did, what passport did he use? If he didn't then he perfectly knew his stay in the UK was way over and decided to overstay thinking staying for that long will automatically make him a UK citizen.
Staying over 50 years and u couldn't do anything to neutralize to become a UK citizen?
I hope the issue gets resolved
You are an oversyayer even after one week past the stamp date
I have no empathy for this prodigal man. For 50 years he never made any effort to visit his mother and family members in Ghana, so what makes him think they even remember who he is? The questions we should be asking are 1. What was he going to do for his dead mother? 2. Why he never made any effort to get his papers in order 3. Where does he hail from as that surname is not Ghanaian.
What an insensitive thing to say.
Fair point
@@kaiblade760 Still true though
@@kaiblade760Insensitive? Ignorance or arrogance of the law is never an excuse.
His name is Ghanaian even though he's been arrogant and/or ignorant of the law being lazy or preferring to bury his Banku head in the sand like an ostrich, which many of them do unlike Nigerians
He went to the UK to study, and has ample time to go back to his country which he chose to stay on his own accord thinking staying there for years will qualify him citizenship. This will set a very bad precedence for others; they will all do the same by starting families in a foreign country, then feel entitled to be treated as citizens of that country. Pure manipulation and unethical in all aspects; we should not feel sorry for him at all. He chose to over stay, his stay there for years knowing very well that his not a citizen and now we should feel sorry for him? He should have applied for citizenship before starting a family and working there; it’s all his own decisions that got him where his is.
Exactly !!!!!!!
If he was married to a British citizen it would have been a simple process to get citizenship back then. Now it’s not so simple.
He was married to a British citizen which gave him the right to stay in those days.
well he isnt british and he was here illegally so he should be sent home and also given prison time
A man that have been a taxpayer for 50 year gets rejected while some get citizenship and can´t speak english properly after 5 years. Clown World. We have a lot here that go to an embassy and can´t speak portuguese.
Stand for shared values, humanity &justice.
Thanks UK people for taking centre stage for the above.
Africans need to be united and not get pushed around by ex colonial nations . Africa has all the resources and talent . Become united .
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It's not the only home he has ever known if he went there as a student. What has he done throughout those years to give back to Ghana?
I'm from British decent..my grandfather. Fought for the queen in ww2 I'm white I can't get UK citizenship who do these people think they are
World war 2 wasn't a queen
What ... are YOU for real ? No i don't think you're being serious man
@@giantvoltarian6960.. yes he is.. think upon that.. and tremble..!!
Its OK ,we are all in the same boat, I am born here in 1978 and from Indian parents , till this day I still get the comments " you don't look British, you will never be British "
He never saw his mom for 50 years ?Lovely son . Now that she’s gone , why the need to go to his country. Maybe it’s the inheritance he’s after.
By the way How did he apply and get job here ? What documents did he provide? Birth certificate? Ghanaian passport? …. Somethings not right!!!
Please invest that money in Ghana.Move out there and live out the rest of your life in peace with your brethren!
Get Real. Most Ghanians/Africans would never go back to their brethren once in The West.
@@agnescraig2912 Most? How did you come to that conclusion?
His children should give him a restful break ...he is old to handle all this trouble ..his family can send him home to Ghana ..and provide all the care & comfort with medical needs he require.. he will not be lonely in Ghana life is too short 😢
@@agnescraig2912Most ??!! NONE !!!
This man lives in the UK since 1977 without visiting his country Ghana and he wanted to travel after his mother passed away, he applied for British passport and he was denied, what is he doing for the past 40 years without visiting Ghana, definitely he will not know his way to his village.
What is needed is us Africans build maama Africa
He arrived on a student visa and should have gone home at the end of his studies.
He must have had a Ghana Passport when he arrived. As he has made no effort to obtain permenant leaves to remain in the UK he should have been deported long ago.
If he did not attempt to become a UK citizen, he should not complain, and he brought this to himself.
Having lived in a country for many years, married a local and have children, does not make you a citizen if you don't apply to be one! Never take things for granted!!!
The problem is that Ghana or many of Áfrican leaders does not want dignity and respect because they love their colonia masters.Period
I don't know which piece of news I find most disturbing, the fact that he may be made to leave or that he may be allowed to stay.
Am a migrant too and would just pay up and stay for 10 years as he is suffering from cancer. Negative PR against Home Office and media paying the guy for his story. Surely after 50 years the family could come up with that sum when migrants pay millions to smugglers.
When will Africans weather in the diaspora or on the motherland learn that the Western world the YT man's land is not home
Just came back to your beautiful country where you belong fellow Americans are coming back home
Yes
Fellow African brothers and sisters all over the world please come back to your mother land you are mostly needed and loved if there's problems you must come back and be part of the solutions seeking UK citizenship is not good cause they will still be racist to you and your children come back home where you belong Africa for all Africans ❤
I'm British born and raised of Caribbean descent. If this man was Ukrainian he would have been welcomed. But my problem is this.
At what stage did Britain ever make us feel so welcome that we could turn our backs on our homeland?
There has always been a complacency about us and a delusion that being amongst white people somehow validates us. He left his homeland in 1977 but didnt apply for a British passport until 2019? What the hell was he doing all this time? I wish him well but this story is to common. I left Britain 13 years ago because this blatant racism and lack of respect for our contribution. 🇬🇩
@goonern4644. Well said .....
Ukrainians are White, Civilized and pose no threat to our civilization.
He should sue them for the bad manners they shown…
noone disrespects contribution. Africans dont contribute and mostly on benefits as far as the immigrants go so dunno what you smoking. The man neglected paperwork for years and probably avoided lots of taxes as a result and benefited from the system. Now he gets caught and you want sympathy ?
The Ukrainians who were welcomed were fleeing war and were women and children, who were welcomed on temporary visas. If they overstay once their visas have expired they will be viewed in the same way as anyone else who are not entitled to be in the UK and it's got nothing to do with their skin colour as you claim. This man claims he thought he was a British citizen but he must have known he was not. No-one assumes they are a citizen of a country just because they have lived there.
There is a statement he made 3 or 4 years ago which left some people confused and questioning their intelligence. This is karma at it’s on doings.
Build Africa.
I'm just here to read the comments, but why is everybody so sad? Just build Africa.
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It is social media hype and attention seeking Only. All the heart strings have been pulled massively. No wonder social media is raking in millions.
People have to understand that this is a fight between the Indians in UK and the Africa. These Indians were kicked out of Uganda by Idi Amin 50 years ago, due to their racism.
U talking b/s its irrelevant what u said ...why did Nelson didt apply 4 his uk citizenship now u ppl jump hollering about racismn
@Sthmohtwenty You are right with that comment. I to looked in to his story
@@Sthmohtwenty It is about more than Nelson. The Indians in charge of the UK, starting with Sue Ella Braverman when she was Home Secretary, continuing to the prime ministership of Rishi Sunak, have embarked on a campaign of mass expulsion of Africans from the UK. In fact, even before they incepted this arrangement to fly "illegal immigrants" to Rwanda, they were already chartering flights to fly back people to such countries as Uganda.
Here is the problem, there are millions of English men in Africa, a huge number of whom are millionaires on the basis of land, cattle and other stolen by their ancestors. Zambia is said to have 40-50 000, Botswana has 150 000, South Africa has 4.5 million.. Zimbabwe has thousands more, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, LeSotho, Eswatini etc, have tens of thousands more.... If we Africans start deporting these English people back to England, it going to hurt England more than it is going to hurt Africa. Remember Africa does not get anything from the UK, because the UK really has nothing to sell anyone. At this time, the UK is nothing but a huge parasite on Africa.
At the same time, there are millions of Indians in Africa, who are also very rich. There are zero Africans in India, which is why the Indians are using the UK to fight their immigration wars. India is another country that is looting Africa, with little to nothing coming from India to Africa. We can deport the Indians, who also number in the millions, to India.
So we have to useless countries, England and India, that would pay a stiff price, if or maybe even when, we retaliate in kind.
And do study Gandhi's racist role in South Africa before he was chosen to serve the crown's interests in India leading to partition...
@@eleghari Absolutely
Come home Blacks, come back to Africa. We are waiting for you eagerly. You are welcome home.
Love from Uganda East African Community
He married two white British women and never bothered to legalize his papers ot his? Even through his own children? Another thing, when he completed the wrong formz why didn't he apply to rectify it.
IT shows running away from your country is not solution
He went to study.. like many in Africa do that moos it's not running away sies man
It's called cowards running away from their own culture out of shame only to blend in gutters of other cultures
I hate to say it but the truth have to be told. How can you live in another country and think you are a citizen without doing the necessary paperwork . The only country that is yours is the one one which you belong origin.
I´m portuguese and we are a country of migrants but most of us do not want to change our nationatily. We go, work outside but we all dream one day to come back.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this case, it just highlights the TOTAL CHAOS concerning immigration. Both legal and illegal.
Did he even bother to check his papers? He knew it but chose to ignore it. Now the consequences.
He assumed he was British. He applied for nothing. They didn’t know about him. As a result, the law of the day was applied. Home office were right. The man was stupid
If you are from another country and don't file the right paperwork, you are not British. They won't give you citizenship just because you're a pillar of your community, or because you've been living there for a certain number of years. That's not how the system works. Residents aren't automatically awarded citizenship because they are not citizens. They have to apply for naturalization in order to become one. It appears he never did any of those things, otherwise he wouldn't be in this situation. Oh, well. He needed to apply for a Ghanaian passport and not a British one because legally, he's Ghanaian, not British. If he was truly a LEGAL resident, there would be no issue with him leaving the country and returning to Britain after his trip. He entered the country on a student visa, and I'll bet he had illegal status for a while, hence the marriages. Even then, it sounds like he never bothered to adjust his legal status.
Why wait this long to apply for British passport?
i'm confused why he applied for passport before applying for citizenship?
Anyhow, this is just another story of a man not doing proper immigration paper work when he should'd had
So what's the point of marrying a White British national if it doesn't give you the papers you need to stay in the country? Maybe this man is half-baked.
I'm not sure what made him believe he was entitled to a British passport. He entered the UK as a college age adult with another country's passport. During all his 50 years in the country, wasn't he exposed to immigration news? Didn't he wonder about his legal status in the country? He probably thought since he has stayed in the UK for so long and fathered British citizens and received an award from a government entity, his background was forgotten by the UK system.
May be
He would not be deported in those days bc he were married to a British citizen.
He’s been living there for over 50 years,so what makes one a citizen of a country?😢😢😢
Sadly. just a piece of paper.
From the Legal point of view, this man is not and has never been a British Citizen. Period. To call yourself a citizen of a particular country, you're either born there or have a natural parent or grandparent there as a Citizen of that country . That is known as a citizen by descent before you can apply for their Passport and Citizenship.
The only available option of becoming a Citizen of another country that you have no blood relation with is through Naturalization
Africans should not be scared to go home, my grandmother" when everything is going south return to the farm.
Good advice but devoid of Reality.
@@agnescraig2912 And what makes you all think the right wingers now in popularity in all western countries won't kill you .Even black Americans who love to go to European cities for exotic vacations have been killed in Greece and Italy just talking to their women and no one went to jail.
😤 You forgot to mention a very important fact, he’s even done jury duty. How can an illegal immigrant do jury duty? The Home Office is just being racist and nasty. The strange thing is, this always happens to decent, law-abiding people who have contributed through hard work for decades. They’ve paid their taxes, and this is how they’re rewarded.
Please stop using the Racist card. Africans and Asians Middle Eastern citizens are racists too all prefer lighter skinned people. Have first hand experience living in these countries. Very easy to blame White British Racists rather than introspect Being Racist = criminal.
And they let in thousands of boat people who contribute zero. But except everything
Jury duty summons are sent to addresses in the locality. Even illegals who have rented apartments may get the summons. That should not make u think that all of a sudden you are a citizen or permanent resident. Nelson may have at on a jury illegally.
paid ur taxes so what? Illegal or legal resident we all pay taxes. That will mot change immigration status. One day it will catch up with u like it did with Nelson.
@@ernestadotey7157 he paid full National insurance that should clinch it..
All those years in England he didn't apply for citizenship, so what he expect he's not a British citizen.
Africa is very rich country richer than England🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 but why the African people still in extreme poverty.
A real “wake up call “.
How come someone working in the UK for ONLY 6 years is be able to apply for a British passport but he is NOT? The non-compliance is what is preventing him. As the Ghanaian saying goes, “a log of wood does not become a crocodile no matter how long it stays in the river”. You can say it’s bureaucracy but I’m sure his sons have got Citizenship by following the right channels. Better he is going to court. Once he is able to present his facts, he’s good to go. After all, it’s only a booklet they will give him to travel, he’s taking care of himself already.
Your So-called Ghanaian adage contradicts your first statement just like those in Ghana who prefer lying to themselves rather than call a spade a spade which Nigerians do.The years spent in the UK is irrelevant for acquiring citizenship if you have the appropriate status
btw The status of his sons are different to his in relevance
@@kayoarawo6116 Yes have lived in Nigeria and one thing I have learnt is that Africans have the gift of the gap and the falsehoods is their trademark. Sadly the phrase is misplaced in this case.
@kayoarawo6116 There is no contradiction. If you read deeply enough, you will know that all I’m saying is he wasn’t looking where he was going. Especially when he wasn’t avoiding authority while he was a resident.
Why did he not take out UK citizenship he had 50 years to do it.
The fact is this man DID NOT follow the LAW....The law says HE is an overstayer....no matter how long he has stayed in UK...if he DID NOT reugularise his stay...by applying for residency permit...This man KNOWS the LAW, but he want the LAW to bend for him.
As a British citizen this makes me mad he's as British as me and his home is the UK .😠🇬🇧
@ Not true. The home of ALL melanated Africans is Africa. Case closed.
Now let the foolish declarations and shenanigans begin…
bro chill, this is just another story of a man not doing proper immigration paper work when he should'd had
@@KlaudiaShaefferr And in all of the 50 year's no one didn't notice anything come on that's incompetence by government departments.
So sorry man he is African living in the oppressors land Africans belong to Africa
He didn't feel it necessary to the paperwork like everyone else. Oh well.
If he already acquired the citizenship of British, why would you kick him out from UK? Remember your PM is not also a natural-born British.
Rishi was born in the uk .
Let's wake up as afrika
@@parrymukonka8102 y'all been waking up for decades. Give it a rest. The african continent is all words and no action. So much wasted potential truly.
A@@bradleygeorge3951 a dog is a dog no matter where they are born . They will never blend in with other animals
Always be proud of your native citizenship ,a given citizenship can be withdrawn anytime ."Be proud of your origin and who you're"
He should have applied for British Nationality for long ago. What made him not to do so?. Now it's too late. Your stay in UK doesn't count.
I'm not surprised. Hope he wins in court.
Let's hope not. Get him back to Ghana, asap.
I dont think he can win...because of the home off rules and laws, and that thousands more would go to court if he wins to be able to stay
Good live in Africa
So the British and Irish citizens (mostly criminals, owed on debts, wayward youths, etc,.) who were kicked out of England in the 1800s and thrown to a life of indentured servitude in East and South Africa, Australia, without papers, can those countries tell them to leave as well and go back to UK after living in East and South Africa, Australia multiple generations, with all their established business, etc., such as this man's situation? As well all the Indians and Pakistanis who left their countries with the British and settled in UK, East and South Africa, Australia, without papers, should those be kicked out as well? We might want to take a step back and re-evaluate.
Just because the British government allowed him to stay during the coup in Ghana did not make him a citizen so they're right he was never a legal citizen of the country
Shouldnt he be aware of what citizenship he has? Or? Even if you never have the passport of a certain country that you moved to and stayed in you would at least know if you were a citizen there or not, wouldnt you? I mean how can you miss that? It sounds to me he might actually be an illegal immigrant that managed to get away with it, but eventually the system caught him. Sorry to say for his part.
i'm confused why he applied for passport before applying for citizenship?
Anyhow, this is just another story of a man not doing proper immigration paper work when he should'd had
That's exactly what happened. Maybe his wife, whom he hid his legal status from, kept pressuring him to take vacation and visit Ghana as a family. That should have been the time to fess up and go "I cannot apply for a British passport because..."
That's exactly what he is. An illegal immigrant applying for a British Passport after years of not getting caught. How doe he in anyway believe staying in another country makes you a citizen of said country. He was In his 30s when he moved to the UK. He wasn't trafficked. He let his student visa expire, not even sure they had visas in the 70s but whatever he had. Chose to chill and now in his old age wants to blame the UK government for being inhumane. How
@@KlaudiaShaefferrI'm more confused as to why he even applied at all. For 40 years he never thought to visit anywhere. He never thought of visiting his parents he left in Ghana. Or just to check out the new government after the coup. Or France for some croissant..
Why would he believe he is British
The implemented policies were never designed to help him. They were designed to keep him out.
So fighting to stay only delays the inevitable.
In 10 years there will be a whole new sets of hoops he and his race will need to jump through.
We pray his hip is still good by then.
The question is, does it worth it?
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he was stupid, nothing to do with race. The reason y'all cant progress is because you make everything about race.
Immigration to any country is a privelege. Not a right.
I feel pity for Nelson. I know him well having lived as a neighbour to him and his shop in Wallasey, where he lived with his British wife and kids. He is the most genuine and helpful British citizen whom you can ever find. Please can the Home Office help this man and his family please.
Try to help him over there
You can't know him, because you falsely claim he is a British citizen. The reason he is being threatened with deportation is because he is in the country illegally because he is NOT a British citizen.
No. Deport, asap.
Yup! But Calls a Newly Arrived indian female, "a British... Lady!" 😂😂😂.
Indians are now colonizing Britian
Lol in one week 11 Indians has been already deported
He lived in UK within going back to his birth home in Ghana 🇬🇭 to see his own mom before she died?
First did he reject or his own mom and family brothers and sisters before being denied by UK ???
How can someone live in another country and be disconnected completely from his roots meaning he never visited them?
Then another thing how come he lived in UK without knowing his legal status?
He came on a student visa and overstayed, he should have done it legitimately.
They want his pension
British Citizenship my foot. You're black, your great, great great grandfather and mother are black 🖤. Even if your forefathers were born in the UK 🇬🇧, you are still black 🖤. So I will say, a " 🐆 leopards " don't change Spots. You are a GHANAIAN " Simple as A,B ,C,