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  • A Singaporean Stranded – Not Granted British Residential Status Even Though She Married A Briton And Stayed There For 27 Years

    A Singaporean Stranded – Not Granted British Residential Status Even Though She Married A Briton And Stayed There For 27 Years

    She is a Singaporean who is married to a Briton.

    Together, they have lived in Britain for 27 years and have two grown-up sons who are British citizens. Even her granddaughter was born in England.

    But now Irene Clennell, 52, who lived with her husband in Country Durham, faces deportation after being detained during a routine appointment in January at an immigration reporting centre in Middlesborough, reported BBC.

    While Mrs Clennell was given indefinite leave to remain in Britain after her marriage, it appears as if periods she spent in Singapore caring for dying parents was the deal-breaker which revoked her residential status, added the report.

    Before her arrest. Mrs Clennel told the BBC: “The kids were born here, my husband is from this country so I don’t see what he issue is. But they keep rejecting all the applications.”

    She told reporters last year: “I have got no family in Singapore and I have no property in Singapore. My parents are dead. My only family is a sister, and she is working in India. My husband is British. I do not see why I cannot stay.”

    She told BBC she had made repeated attempts – both in Singapore and back in the UK – to re-apply for permission to live with her husband.

    The Clennels tied the knot in 1990. Mrs Clennell does not claim state benefits and is not allowed to work. Mr John Clennel, 50, who is a gas engineer is in poor health, reported the Daily Mail.

    Irene said she was her husband’s primary caregiver.

    She added: “My granddaughter – I want to see her grow up. And my husband is not getting any better. I want to be with my family. If I do go back, I don’t know when I’ll be able to see them again.”

    Mr Clennell told BBC: “Since Irene’s been detained, my mum’s been coming over to get my meals and so on.”

    He told BuzzFeed: “I just can’t believe this is happening. It’s a disgrace. She hasn’t claimed any benefits here and I’ve worked nearly all my life, so I can’t see what the problem is. She doesn’t cost the state anything.”

    Director of UK’s Migrant Voice Nazek Ramadan said Clennell’s case is one of the many cases of how arbitrary policies “tear apart families and ruin lives”.

    “These kind of bureaucratic decisions are a direct result of a relentless drive towards unrealistic migration caps that don’t take real lives into account.”

    When asked for a response, the Home Office told the media: “We do not routinely comment on individual cases.”

     

    Source: http://news.asiaone.com

  • Singaporeans Silently Resent Malaysians Living In Singapore

    Singaporeans Silently Resent Malaysians Living In Singapore

    When Singaporeans complain about foreigners, they are particularly referring to people from their neighbour country “Malaysia”. They need to use subtle way to complain to the  Government.

    Most Singaporeans are afraid to discriminate and complain against Malaysians because Singapore is small and solely depending on Malaysia for many things and their survival.

    Singapore and Malaysia are just across the border and people from Malaysia can come into to Singapore at anytime to get jobs easily because they can speak Chinese, English and Malay which are the 3 main national languages in Singapore. Especially, when the people from nearby Malaysia border area can just spend 5 to 10 minutes on the bus to get into Singapore.

    Addition to that people from Malaysia can acquire permanent resident and citizenship easily. After they receive the residency or citizenship status, they can get access to education, housing, healthcare and etc from another side of the fence.

    One of the good examples will be – after being granted resident or citizenship status, they will buy the HDB  house to rent it out.

    Then, they travel back and forth to go to work in Singapore daily because housing and living cost at Malaysia border is a lot cheaper than Singapore due to the strong Singapore currency.

    Singaporeans are so angry about their neighbour country exploiting them but on the other hands they can’t reject them directly.

    If you go and ask them, they will say it is not true for sure because they don’t want to sour the relationship with their neighbour  for survival sake.

    They will always say, “we are brothers and good neighbours”.

    Editor’s note: This article is retrieved from a comment posted and it reflected the true sentiment of many Singaporeans here due to the historical and cultural similarities between the two neigbhouring countries. It is estimated that more than 300,000 Malaysians are working and residing here with as many as 150,000 living as permanent residents. Many remain as permanent residents after more than 20 years refusing to convert to Singapore citizens.

    Many thousands  commute daily between the two countries via the Johore Bahru checkpoint due mainly to our strong currency difference and professional work culture.

    Many companies also prefer to hire Malaysians due to their strong work ethics and survival instinct. Many took on significant positions within the companies and become a important pillar in the work hierarchy.

     

    Source: www.transitioning.org

  • US Defense Secretary: People Will be Held Accountable For Live Anthrax Shipment

    US Defense Secretary: People Will be Held Accountable For Live Anthrax Shipment

    Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Sunday that he will find out who was responsible for the mistaken shipments of live anthrax to 11 US states and two countries and will “hold them accountable”.

    Calling the shipments an “unfortunate incident”, Carter said the Pentagon would make “sure that any public health consequences of this are avoided” and ensure it never happens again.

    Live anthrax samples from the Army’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah were mistakenly sent to 24 laboratories, including ones in Australia and South Korea. Questions have been raised about possible flaws in Dugway’s procedures to ensure that anthrax samples were made fully inert before shipping them to labs.

    Carter spoke after a visit to the Vietnamese navy’s headquarters at the port city of Haiphong.

    He said he was keeping in close contact with Pentagon officials to make sure the department is working with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address the problem.

    Deputy US Defense Secretary Bob Work has ordered a comprehensive review of laboratory procedures associated with inactivating anthrax.

    Dugway, in a desolate stretch of the Utah desert, has been testing chemical weapons since it opened in 1942.

    The CDC said suspect samples from Dugway had been sent to 18 labs in nine US states and a military base in South Korea. Later, the Pentagon said the Army may have mistakenly sent live anthrax to a laboratory in Australia in 2008.

    Carter met with Australian Minister of Defense Kevin Andrews during an international security conference in Singapore on Saturday and gave him an update on the problem.

    CDC spokesman Jason McDonald said four people at labs in Delaware, Texas and Wisconsin were recommended to get antibiotics as a precaution, although they are not sick. About two dozen people were being treated for possible exposure at Osan Air Base in South Korea.

     

    Source: www.theguardian.com