Indian immigrants allege harassment at UK airports
23.06.09
Indian immigrants have complained of harassment at UK airports on returning from trips abroad, according to Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) Forum, a non-profit organisation campaigning for the rights of skilled migrants, the Hindu reports. The Forum has taken up the issue with immigration authorities.
The newspaper cited the case of Dr Sujit Nair, who works for the NHS and was allegedly harassed at the Glasgow airport after returning from a holiday in India. He said: ‘The immigration officer bombarded me with questions. I was also questioned by a police officer despite having permanent residency in the UK. I felt very intimidated and unwelcome.'
The Forum said that similar complaints had come from non-EU immigrants, but a majority were from the Asians. ‘How did their employer allow them to go on a long holiday?’, ‘Why had they chosen to work in a particular field?’ and ‘Why didn’t they find a job in some other area?’ were some of the ‘irrelevant’ questions the ‘interrogation’ usually consisted of. Amit Kapadia, Executive Director of the Forum, said they were treated like ‘criminals.’
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