[Redway]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98q08npq28o.amp

‘Nelson Shardey, from Wallasey in Wirral, has lived in Britain since arriving as a student in 1977, but in 2019 he was told he had no right to live in the UK. The 74-year-old, originally from Ghana, has now been granted indefinite leave to remain after the government said it recognised his case was "exceptional".‘

Someone somewhere (naming no names) might make funny business out of this but the actual fact remains that this is excellent news.

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by Redway

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98q08npq28o.amp

‘Nelson Shardey, from Wallasey in Wirral, has lived in Britain since arriving as a student in 1977, but in 2019 he was told he had no right to live in the UK. The 74-year-old, originally from Ghana, has now been granted indefinite leave to remain after the government said it recognised his case was "exceptional".‘

Someone somewhere (naming no names) might make funny business out of this but the actual fact remains that this is excellent news.

Common sense prevails, at last.

[Redway]

I have mutual contacts with this guy and not one person has had a single bad word to say about him. He didn’t deserve any of this.

[Mystic Mock]

They were going to throw him out after living in the country for nearly 5 decades?

That would've been cruel.

[Ammi]

…Nelson Shardey……sounds like a pretty wonderful person…he’s contributed in his taxes all of his working life and even gained a bravery award and still the government wanted more money in NHS contribution to be applied …


‘Officials told him to apply for the 10-year route to settlement which costs about £7,000, with a further £10,500 over the same period to access the NHS – sums Mr Shardey initially despaired of finding.’


…so another £17,500 as well as having contributed to a society and then you can stay…just outrageous and so wrong…and yet with the money raised for him with his fees, he’s donating to charity…Im glad that it’s all finally settled, sad that he’s had to go through what he has when he’s contributed so much to a country that holds everything he loves and everything he’s worked for…I hope that he has a long and healthy retirement…..