‘They’ve robbed me of my life’: Jamaican woman who has lived in UK since she was a child facing deportation after losing court battle
'People say you’re not legal, go home. But I came here as a child. This is all I know'
A Jamaican woman who has been in the UK since she was a child is facing removal from the country after losing a court battle to secure her immigration status.
Shankea Stewart, whose grandfather was a member of the Windrush generation, said she felt her life had been “robbed”. A judge ruled that she should go back to Jamaica despite the fact her sick father and most other family members live in Britain.
The 29-year-old, who arrived in the country when she was 12 to join her father, was unable to attend her mother’s funeral in the Caribbean last year due to delays in the Home Office processing her application for leave to remain.
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