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In 2020, the British government introduced a new immigration policy. In order to attract Hong Kong residents to immigrate to the UK, after this immigration policy is released, if Hong Kong citizens hold a BNO passport given by the UK when colonizing Hong Kong, they can apply to immigrate to the UK to live.
You should know that there are many people in Hong Kong who hold BNO passports, but BNO passports were not recognized by the British government before, let alone taking this passport and to live in the UK for a long time. However, after this immigration policy is announced, Hong Kong people with BNO passports will easily apply for an immigration visa and become British citizens after that.
So when the British government introduced this policy, many Hong Kong people applied for immigration to the UK. According to statistics, nearly 100,000 Hong Kong people applied for it in the year after the release of this policy.
, as a female teacher in Hong Kong, Fiona is one of them, and not only applied for immigration herself, Fiona also took her whole family to the UK.
Fiona's family has beautiful fantasies about life after immigration, and Fiona's husband even said: " I would rather be a beggar in the UK than stay in Hong Kong to be the emperor. "
But just after Fiona's family moved to the UK, the life they lived was not as they thought, and it was even more bleaker than life in Hong Kong.
Immigrated to the UK and lived a bleak life
2021 Fiona's family set foot on the land of the UK. From then on, the family will survive forever on this land. When they first arrived in the UK, the Fiona's family was full of plans and yearning for life, and they had a feeling of opening up a new life.
Because Fiona and her husband Oman had no jobs just in the UK and they had children to raise, the Fiona family, who were not very wealthy, decided to live in the small town of Crew in Cheshire, England first. Although it is far away from the bustling areas of the UK, compared with the high rent in the bustling cities, it is much cheaper here.
Because the houses Fiona lived in Hong Kong were very crowded, the first thing they did when they came to the UK was to rent a big house. Before they arrived in the UK, Fiona had a look at a cheap three-story villa in the small town of Crew in Cheshire online.
When they came to the house, they felt more satisfied. Compared to the small house in Hong Kong, the environment here is simply a paradise. The big bed that my daughter once wanted was realized here, and Fiona's husband was also very satisfied with it. The happy appearance of the family made Fiona feel that the decision to lead the family to the UK was correct.
But what she didn't know was that the suffering of their family had just begun. The first problem that Fiona and her family encountered after they came to the UK was that no one cooked.
When Fiona was in Hong Kong, he hired a Filipino maid who was responsible for taking care of the family's diet and daily life. However, when Fiona's family did not have enough funds to hire a servant, so they could only solve the problem of cooking by themselves before they found a job.
But Fiona and her husband don’t know how to cook, so when they went out to buy groceries, they simply bought some quick food such as bread and milk. After returning home with these foods, their daughter was already hungry. Seeing her daughter’s hungry look, Aman, a father, decided to use a microwave to heat her daughter a loaf of bread so that her daughter could fill her stomach.
But when Aman walked to the microwave with bread, he was stunned because he had never used the microwave before. In desperation, Aman could only come to ask for help from his wife Fiona. But what he didn't expect was that after Fiona came, he shrugged and said that he couldn't use it. After all, everything in the family was done by the Filipino maids, and she had never been exposed to these things.
Seeing that his wife couldn't use it, Oman had to give up the idea of heating bread for the time being, so he gave the cold bread to his daughter, who had to eat cold bread to snatch the cold bread to cushion.
My daughter didn't care about these things because she was too hungry, but Fiona was used to living with a servant. There was such a big gap in life that suddenly a thought arose in her mind, that is, was the right decision of their family to come to live in the UK.
At this time, her husband Aman, who had finished eating cold bread, leaned on the sofa, and there was no trace of worries on his face. He seemed to see his wife was dissatisfied with the status quo, so he said, ", I would rather go to the UK to be a beggar than stay in Hong Kong to be the emperor. Life here is much better than that in Hong Kong, and it will be better in the future. "
The optimistic look of the husband also infected Fiona, so Fiona no longer thought about her current miserable life, but decided to make changes so that the family could live a good life in the UK.
In order to prevent the family from having cold rice, Fiona learned to cook and stir-fry on her own. Although she made it stumbling at the beginning and the food she made was not as delicious as the Filipino maids, the family could still eat hot rice, which was much better than before.
solved the dietary problem and another problem before Fiona and her husband, that is, the work problem. When they came to the UK, they dealt with all their property in Hong Kong. Although the money was a lot, it was only enough to maintain the expenses of the family in the UK for less than a year. If they didn’t look for a job, the family would be in vain.
Before coming to Fiona was a teacher in Hong Kong, while Fiona's husband Aman was a bus driver. The plan for both of them was to go to school to find a job teaching Chinese at school after he arrived in the UK, while her husband Aman went to get a British driver's license and then worked as a truck driver in the UK.
But when the two came to the UK to start implementing the plan, they realized that they were thinking too smoothly. Fiona and her husband were both turned away because they did not have a formal visa. . Fiona could not find a school that was willing to accept her, and her husband Oman was unable to get a driver's license, so he naturally couldn't become a truck driver.
job was not found, but the family's expenses would not stop. After Fiona's calculation of deposits, if their family's life remained at the current level, it would not last for several months. In desperation, Fiona had to announce a plan to save money to the family until Fiona and Oman found a job.
Since you want to live a saving life, you naturally have to go out to eat less normally. The three-story western-style building you live in is naturally also needed to be replaced. Fiona's family's life suddenly dropped by more than one level.
When Oman saw the small broken house rented by his wife, he couldn't help but lose his temper and complained to his wife, "What house did you rent? It's so broken." Fiona also got angry in the face of her husband's dissatisfaction: " has no job now, so it's good to have a house to live in. If we really spend the money, where can we live in our family?!"
When Oman saw his wife's angry look, it was hard to say anything else. She just muttered twice. After moving from a luxury house to a small broken house, the expenses of the family were much less, but the food and drinking problems of the family were not a decimal.
While waiting for the visa to come out, Fiona had to put down the work she chose. In order to balance her family's expenses, she had to put down the level of work she chose. In the end, Fiona, who wanted to be a teacher, worked as an assembly line worker in an gingerbread factory. This job is hard, but it can always supplement the family's savings.
Whenever Fiona finished her day at the factory, she returned home and saw her husband who had no job at home, she couldn't help but start to doubt whether their family's decision to immigrate to the UK was correct, but now the family has come to the UK, and it's useless to think about this problem. She can only look forward to the visa one day earlier so that the family can get on track.
visa problems, and the family is facing a crisis
Fiona's idea of getting off early every day with her visa in her mind, working day by day in the gingerbread factory. Although the visa has not yet been released, Fiona's work has improved.
requires a large number of employees in the gingerbread factory where Fiona works, but many times the boss cannot recruit people because the job in the gingerbread factory is quite hard, and many British people are unwilling to come here to work, but Fiona found that many people who immigrated to the UK did not find a job, so she thought about whether she could help the boss recruit workers in exchange for compensation.
do it as soon as possible, Fiona immediately told the boss of the gingerbread factory. After hearing Fiona's suggestion, the boss was very happy and agreed on the spot. He told Fiona that if he could recruit people, Fiona would go to the office to be responsible for recruiting people without having to go to the production line.
Hearing the boss's promise, Fiona saw the dawn of hope, so after saying goodbye to his boss, Fiona began to recruit people in the small circle of immigrants. The facts proved that as Fiona guessed, many immigrants had no jobs. Although the work in the gingerbread factory was hard, many immigrants were still willing to do it.
In a short time, Fiona helped the factory recruit a large number of people. Seeing that Fiona is so capable, the boss of naturally would not violate his promise. He immediately signed an labor contract with Fiona and asked Fiona to be responsible for the job of recruiting people for the factory. This job is not only much easier than before, but also has a lot of salary.
When Fiona was promoted, her husband's work also made progress. Because she could not find other jobs, her husband Aman had to work as a deliveryman. Although she was hard at work, it was better than having no income. With both of them working, Fiona's family's life in the UK seemed to be getting on track step by step, which made Fiona's more expectant about her future life.
But something happened shortly after that directly shattered Fiona's expectations. Just a few months after Fiona's work was on track, she found that her visa was delayed, and the express entry visa that the family had applied for in order to come to the UK in advance was about to expire.
If there is no visa at that time, the family will face the risk of being deported, so Fiona took some time to call the immigrant lawyer to see when the visa will be released.
But when Fiona told the lawyer about the incident, the lawyer's reply directly shattered Fiona's heart. It turned out that the BNO visa applied for by Fiona's family according to the policy was delayed, and Fiona, who was eager to immigrate, applied for another visa for express entry.
Fiona's original intention is to come to the UK first and wait for the BNO visa review, and then the BNO visa will definitely be issued before the visa limitation expires. However, the immigration lawyer told Fiona that when she applied for a quick visa, the BNO visa was automatically invalidated and she needed to submit the application again.
When she heard this, Fiona's heart seemed to be shattered, but after she heard the lawyer's next words, she was desperate. was required to provide a property certificate that could live in the UK for half a year when resubmitting the application to the UK.
If the Fiona family had just arrived in the UK, this condition could still be easily accomplished, but now the family has spent almost all their money and can't pay so much.
When Fiona told her husband Aman about this, she not only did not receive her husband's comfort, but Aman also accused her of his wife and blamed her for the mistake. Fiona, who had hope for life, quietly shed tears. At this moment, she might realize that the decision to take her family to the UK was wrong.
When interviewing Fiona's family, her husband Aman said, " Maybe the next time you come to interview again, we are already divorced.”
Fiona's family lived in Hong Kong, although their lives were hard but harmonious, and they were accompanied by their daughter. However, after the immigration policy was released, Fiona's family was blinded by a beautiful life. They did not know what conditions were needed to meet these beautiful lives. They forced to come to the UK and even reached the point of divorce.
Fiona's family had already sold Hong Kong when they chose to immigrate to the UK. All the assets of the family, so no matter whether their family returns to Hong Kong or stays in the UK in the future, I believe they will encounter great challenges. When they truly walk through the path of immigration, they will know what price they have to pay.
There are still many families like Fiona now. Perhaps some people live a good life after immigration, but a large number of people have a very miserable life after immigration. I hope that the example of Fiona's family can alert the world and make it rare for families like Fiona to be born in the future.
