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Indian immigrants complain of harassment at British airports

London: Indian immigrants, with permanent residency rights in UK, have complained of being harassed and "treated like criminals" by British immigration officers on returning to the country from trips abroad, a forum representing highly skilled workers has claimed. "Migrants from India and other Non-Eur ....Read more

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Indian born overseasBy: Mustafa | Monday , 3 Aug '09 17:36:55 PM Reply | Forward My family are Gujrati and I was born in Britain. I have noticed that the goverment say Indians overseas are Indian when it comes to investing money in the country or posting money to family there. But as soon as our passports change and we have a problem we are no longer Indian. Look what happened to Indians in Uganda. They were all told they are no longer Indian as soon as they were asked to leave by Idi Amin and became poor moving to Britain and Canada. Before when they were rich they were the pride of India. Representing India overseas and remembering their roots.

What are you talking about , your comments are irrelavant to this topicBy: indian | Sunday , 13 Sep '09 16:59:33 PM Reply | Forward What are you talking about , your comments are irrelavant to this topic

INDIABy: DANDY | Wednesday , 24 Jun '09 3:24:28 AM Reply | Forward WHAT ABOUT INDIAN AIRPORT ?IMMIGRATION GUYS THINKS THEY ARE GOD BECAUSE THEY SCREEN THE PASSENGERS.EVERYTHING IS A JOKE.ONE OLD LADY WHILE LEAVING THE COUNTRY ASKED BY IMMIGRATIN WHERE DID SHE STAYED,WHILE SHE COULDNT PROVIDE THE NAME OF THE HOTEL HE HAS NOT STAMPED THE PASSPORT.ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IMMIGRATION SIMPLY ALLOW THE FOREIGNERS TO LEAVE WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM,BUT THESE BALCK RAJAHS ARE WORST THAN BRITISH GUYS.THEY WANT EACH BAG YOU CARRY SHOULD HAVE THE AIRLINE TAGS BUT THE FOOLISH POLICEMAN DOESNT CARE MAY BE HE CANT READ ONE PERSON HAD TAGS FROM TWO DIFFERENT AIRLINES HA HA HA HA JAI INDIA SORRY ITALY.

Record it for evidenceBy: Sreekumar | Wednesday , 24 Jun '09 3:16:15 AM Reply | Forward The moment the officers start harrassing you, swith on your mobile phone recorder and warn the officer that the coversation is being recorded!

DrBy: Sreekumar | Wednesday , 24 Jun '09 3:13:08 AM Reply | Forward Indians get maximum harassment the moment we land in India!

100 % agreedBy: indian | Sunday , 13 Sep '09 17:00:52 PM Reply | Forward cant agree more with you. you are totally correct.

foreign country is after all foreignBy: vaishal desai | Tuesday , 23 Jun '09 21:43:17 PM Reply | Forward Whatever you do; foreign country is after all foreign;

Better to be mistreated by Indians!By: Damini | Tuesday , 23 Jun '09 20:42:40 PM Reply | Forward @KUMAR - Very true indeed. Let all NRIs return to India where everyone is treated like third rate Residents - unless of course you are related to a politican.

Why cant??By: KUMAR | Tuesday , 23 Jun '09 15:33:30 PM Reply | Forward Why cant they come back to India and be one amongst the lot to develop our country ? If not they should be prepared to be treated like third rate Residents.They should not make it out as a big issue..