US academic given two weeks to leave UK after eight years

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“After eight years I had 14 days to get out.”

After eight years researching music history at Glasgow University, Elizabeth Ford hoped her request for a visa extension would sail through this summer. Instead, the Home Office gave the American academic two weeks to pack up her life and leave the country.

 

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It’s not the government to blame it’s the civil service, the home office. Yes a government dictates policy but show me what government policy has enforced this. There’s no doubt a good enough reason her visa was declined.

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