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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)
-   Canada (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/)
-   -   Motivations for emigration (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/motivations-emigration-446897/)

jempee May 7th 2007 1:45 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by Neelam (Post 4748020)
They get money to buy a CAR!?!?!? Oh the shock of things :eek: :zzz: :ohmy:
Yep. A relative was telling me about someone he knows who was selling a car. The buyer turned up with a cheque from the local council. When he called them to query it he was told that sometimes it turns out to be the cheaper option if the have mobility issues. :frown:

dbd33 May 7th 2007 1:46 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by jempee (Post 4748015)
totally agree. Along with the food vouchers (i have never known any body else to get vouchers like they do!) oh and the money for the car that they get as well.
We went through this money for car nonsense before. As it turned out one person with a disability got an allowance for a car; the government isn't giving out Rolls-Royces to everyone who can prove he arrived illegally.

dbd33 May 7th 2007 1:47 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by jempee (Post 4748015)
totally agree. Along with the food vouchers (i have never known any body else to get vouchers like they do!) oh and the money for the car that they get as well.
Links please. Not "man in pub told me" but BBC, Guardian, Times, Independent, some credible source.

Neelam May 7th 2007 1:47 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4748030)
If you can show using some sort of reputable source that Indians and Pakistanis occupy a disproportionate number of council houses please do so. Otherwise I have to dismiss your post as racist tosh and warn you that Canada has brown people too.
Proof? Sure... walk into any Birmingham or outer London suburb. FYI - my parents are Pakistani.

dbd33 May 7th 2007 1:49 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by Neelam (Post 4748045)
Proof? Sure... walk into any Birmingham or outer London suburb. FYI - my parents are Pakistani.
Yes, proof or credible evidence please.

Neelam May 7th 2007 1:53 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4748042)
Links please. Not "man in pub told me" but BBC, Guardian, Times, Independent, some credible source.
My ex boyfriend was an asylum seeker from India (yes INDIA) posing as a Sri Lanken. surprisingly the British caught him and he fled to the USA. The Americans (surprisingly) believed his story and he is now sitting under palm trees in California with a Green Card in his hands.

Neelam May 7th 2007 1:54 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4748042)
Links please. Not "man in pub told me" but BBC, Guardian, Times, Independent, some credible source.
Like i said, walk into an outter city suburb - use your legs, I aint takin' you there....

going to see "proof" is better then clicking on some website links that anyone could have put there.

Neelam May 7th 2007 1:55 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by jempee (Post 4748037)
Yep. A relative was telling me about someone he knows who was selling a car. The buyer turned up with a cheque from the local council. When he called them to query it he was told that sometimes it turns out to be the cheaper option if the have mobility issues. :frown:

All i can say to that is :curse: :curse:

dbd33 May 7th 2007 1:56 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by Neelam (Post 4748061)
My ex boyfriend was an asylum seeker from India (yes INDIA) posing as a Sri Lanken. surprisingly the British caught him and he fled to the USA. The Americans (surprisingly) believed his story and he is now sitting under palm trees in California with a Green Card in his hands.
Obviously the British authorities would immediately know that he wasn't from Sri Lanka, how on earth did he think he would get away with that?

Novocastrian May 7th 2007 1:56 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by Neelam (Post 4748078)
All i can say to that is :curse: :curse:
How very articulate.

jempee May 7th 2007 1:56 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4748038)
We went through this money for car nonsense before. As it turned out one person with a disability got an allowance for a car; the government isn't giving out Rolls-Royces to everyone who can prove he arrived illegally.
hey you know what just because you dont have links in front of you does not mean its true im afraid.

Neelam May 7th 2007 1:58 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4748082)
Obviously the British authorities would immediately know that he wasn't from Sri Lanka, how on earth did he think he would get away with that?
Oh no.... they believed him!! It was only until someone from India mailed his Indian passport to him and Royal Mail reported it, thinking it was odd that an Indian passport is being passed through the UK - They put two and two together and caught him. He is from South India. The language is the same and they look the same (Sri Lanken and Indian) he just had to change his accent to a Sri Lanken one.

Neelam May 7th 2007 1:59 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 4748085)
How very articulate.
Hahaha! Funny. I need more coffee. STARBUCKKSSSSSSSSSSSSS

jempee May 7th 2007 2:01 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4748051)
Yes, proof or credible evidence please.
ah but no more rants of racism now though? i do not consider myself racist but do not like illegal's be they brown, white whatever impeding on a system that then is stretched and becomes unable to help those that it was intended to help. this is my personal opinion im afraid and i do not need a link to back it up. As Neelam said take a walk in these places and talk to real people.

Neelam May 7th 2007 2:01 am
Re: Motivations for emigration
 
Originally Posted by jempee (Post 4748087)
hey you know what just because you dont have links in front of you does not mean its true im afraid.
You go GIRL!!! Or boy...


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