Elizabeth Madrid, wife of London firefighter Colin Jones, is facing deportation.
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A campaign has been launched with nearly 6, 500 signatures, to prevent Elizabeth Madrid from being deported.
Now wife of North London firefighter, Colin Jones, Elizabeth arrived in the UK in 2003 on a visitor’s visa from Bolivia.
She became a student, but was then refused a visa extension by the Home Office, who told her to leave the country. This was never followed up and she started working as a cleaner at the fire station on Holloway Road. Here, she met Colin and fell in love.
After getting married in 2015, they applied for a visa again. But, after a 12-month wait, Elizabeth was told that she had to leave the country within 28 days.
She now has to sign on at Becket House immigration centre in Lambeth every week.
Colin, 44, said his wife could be forced to leave the country “at any time” because of increasing difficulties in securing a British visa.
On his website, where he has launched the campaign, Colin says “My wife was working, paying tax, national insurance and not claiming anything from this country and yet they said it was not in the interest of the UK.”
“The whole situation is very stressful and upsetting for the both of us. If she is deported I don’t know what I will do. She is such a rock for me, helping me deal with the fallout from those tough incidents I have at work and I love her so much.”
“I only want us to have a normal life here, contributing to society, without the stress and anxiety we have now lived with for the past year.”
A spokesman added: “There were no exceptional reasons for her to remain in the UK because her relationship could continue overseas. We expect people with no legal basis to remain in the UK to leave the country voluntarily.”
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A campaign has been launched with nearly 6, 500 signatures, to prevent Elizabeth Madrid from being deported.
Now wife of North London firefighter, Colin Jones, Elizabeth arrived in the UK in 2003 on a visitor’s visa from Bolivia.
She became a student, but was then refused a visa extension by the Home Office, who told her to leave the country. This was never followed up and she started working as a cleaner at the fire station on Holloway Road. Here, she met Colin and fell in love.
After getting married in 2015, they applied for a visa again. But, after a 12-month wait, Elizabeth was told that she had to leave the country within 28 days.
She now has to sign on at Becket House immigration centre in Lambeth every week.
Colin, 44, said his wife could be forced to leave the country “at any time” because of increasing difficulties in securing a British visa.
On his website, where he has launched the campaign, Colin says “My wife was working, paying tax, national insurance and not claiming anything from this country and yet they said it was not in the interest of the UK.”
“The whole situation is very stressful and upsetting for the both of us. If she is deported I don’t know what I will do. She is such a rock for me, helping me deal with the fallout from those tough incidents I have at work and I love her so much.”
“I only want us to have a normal life here, contributing to society, without the stress and anxiety we have now lived with for the past year.”
A spokesman added: “There were no exceptional reasons for her to remain in the UK because her relationship could continue overseas. We expect people with no legal basis to remain in the UK to leave the country voluntarily.”
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