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Hampshire cricketer will not be deported

Hampshire cricketer will not be deported Hampshire cricketer will not be deported

A TALENTED cricket player and coach at the centre of a deportation row has won his right to stay in the UK.

South African born Cameron Grierson feared he would be forced to leave Southampton where he has lived with his family since he was 13 after his visa application was rejected by the UK Border Agency.

The decision comes just nine days after the Daily Echo highlighted Cameron’s plight and his his plea to stay with his family.

The 22-year-old, who plays Southern League cricket for Lymington Cricket Club and coaches children across the county, was ordered to report to a police station where he was “liable to be detained.”

The decision sparked outrage among the cricket community and at Totton College where Cameron, who suffers from severe dyslexia, takes adult classes.

But Cameron can now stay in Upper Shirley where he lives with his 27-year-old sister Kelly, brother Keagen, 19, and mum Amanda, who is a British citizen.

Citizenship He has been granted a three-year visa, after which he will then be eligible for citizenship status.

Cameron, said: “I would truly like to say thank you to everyone whose support has made this whole process so much easier.”

Mum Amanda, who works in Lymington, got the news on her birthday.

She said: “I would like to say this is purely because of the Daily Echo. It is because of the outpouring we’ve had from everyone who read the article.”

Cameron was born in South Africa but left when he was just six when his family moved to Zambia then Botswana before coming to the UK in 2003.

Cameron was granted leave to enter the UK as a dependant on his mother’s ancestry visa. But when he applied for further leave to remain in the UK in 2010, administrative errors meant his application was returned and each subsequent application was rejected.

The Border Agency said they would not be releasing a statement on the case but confirmed Cameron will not face deportation.

Comments(13)

Goldenwight says...
12:33pm Sun 12 Feb 12

Hampshire cricketer will not be deported.

Isn't that the greatest headline since 'Nobody hurt in small earthquake?'

Torchie1 says...
3:14pm Sun 12 Feb 12

It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.

sarfhamton says...
5:17pm Sun 12 Feb 12

Torchie1 wrote:
It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.
Please can we stop using every story to bash muslims?

This is a positive story about a family being able to stay together, just be happy for them.

andysaints007 says...
5:25pm Sun 12 Feb 12

sarfhamton wrote:
Torchie1 wrote:
It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.
Please can we stop using every story to bash muslims?

This is a positive story about a family being able to stay together, just be happy for them.
Well said Torchie !!!

likewatchingbrazil says...
6:03pm Sun 12 Feb 12

andysaints007 wrote:
sarfhamton wrote:
Torchie1 wrote: It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.
Please can we stop using every story to bash muslims? This is a positive story about a family being able to stay together, just be happy for them.
Well said Torchie !!!
like it or not sarf torchie is totally right.

Condor Man says...
6:09pm Sun 12 Feb 12

sarfhamton wrote:
Torchie1 wrote:
It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.
Please can we stop using every story to bash muslims?

This is a positive story about a family being able to stay together, just be happy for them.
quite! I know loads of Muslims and none are hook handed militants. I think it's a strength of this great nation that we can accommodate others.

likewatchingbrazil says...
6:20pm Sun 12 Feb 12

Condor Man wrote:
sarfhamton wrote:
Torchie1 wrote: It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.
Please can we stop using every story to bash muslims? This is a positive story about a family being able to stay together, just be happy for them.
quite! I know loads of Muslims and none are hook handed militants. I think it's a strength of this great nation that we can accommodate others.
read torchie's post again, it is a terrorist he talks about not your normal muslim, we should all feel the same against terrorists.

loosehead says...
9:51pm Sun 12 Feb 12

Sorry but this guy is South African has a South African & should live in South Africa.
His mother could have applied for a British passport before he was eighteen & could have declared his British Nationality at the British embassy all she needed to do was declare her British Passport.
This is the way in Thailand & at Eighteen he /she would have to choose between British or Thai nationality.
He is an illegal & like all the other illegals he should be repatriated.is he in danger of losing his life? if not he can't claim asylum.
No matter what good he's doing he should go back!
He's not a muslim extremist & can't be compared to one but he is an illegal & with nearly three million unemployed I find it wrong letting him or any illegal stay in this country

Torchie1 says...
11:12pm Sun 12 Feb 12

loosehead wrote:
Sorry but this guy is South African has a South African & should live in South Africa.
His mother could have applied for a British passport before he was eighteen & could have declared his British Nationality at the British embassy all she needed to do was declare her British Passport.
This is the way in Thailand & at Eighteen he /she would have to choose between British or Thai nationality.
He is an illegal & like all the other illegals he should be repatriated.is he in danger of losing his life? if not he can't claim asylum.
No matter what good he's doing he should go back!
He's not a muslim extremist & can't be compared to one but he is an illegal & with nearly three million unemployed I find it wrong letting him or any illegal stay in this country
Loosehead, I would agree with your post if the law was applied even handedly. The UK legal system seems to have a strange way of approaching cases where it sees the useless dangerous drain on society as an asset to be retained and the working contributing useful member as something to get rid of. One who came here illegally after fleeing the mayhem he created in Jordan, openly hating the West and showing no desire to support his extended family who live entirely on benefits paid from your taxes. The other could have been in the UK quite legally if he hadn't made a paperwork error, works, pays taxes and is no danger to the country. The UK seems determined to keep one and I'm suggesting the authorities have made the wrong choice.

loosehead says...
7:53am Mon 13 Feb 12

Torchie1 wrote:
loosehead wrote:
Sorry but this guy is South African has a South African & should live in South Africa.
His mother could have applied for a British passport before he was eighteen & could have declared his British Nationality at the British embassy all she needed to do was declare her British Passport.
This is the way in Thailand & at Eighteen he /she would have to choose between British or Thai nationality.
He is an illegal & like all the other illegals he should be repatriated.is he in danger of losing his life? if not he can't claim asylum.
No matter what good he's doing he should go back!
He's not a muslim extremist & can't be compared to one but he is an illegal & with nearly three million unemployed I find it wrong letting him or any illegal stay in this country
Loosehead, I would agree with your post if the law was applied even handedly. The UK legal system seems to have a strange way of approaching cases where it sees the useless dangerous drain on society as an asset to be retained and the working contributing useful member as something to get rid of. One who came here illegally after fleeing the mayhem he created in Jordan, openly hating the West and showing no desire to support his extended family who live entirely on benefits paid from your taxes. The other could have been in the UK quite legally if he hadn't made a paperwork error, works, pays taxes and is no danger to the country. The UK seems determined to keep one and I'm suggesting the authorities have made the wrong choice.
I agree with you but the echo has made a song & dance about what was an error by his mum & then by himself.
I hate that cleric & anyone like him best thing they could do would be to extradite him to Jordan & let his brothers punish him

Linesman says...
9:57am Mon 13 Feb 12

Torchie1 wrote:
It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.
But if the cricketer had been a muslim, and found himself in similar circumstances, would you have expressed the same opinion?

I very much doubt it.

Amazing how the colour of a person's skin and their faith can colour another's opinion.

Torchie1 says...
10:28am Mon 13 Feb 12

Linesman wrote:
Torchie1 wrote:
It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.
But if the cricketer had been a muslim, and found himself in similar circumstances, would you have expressed the same opinion?

I very much doubt it.

Amazing how the colour of a person's skin and their faith can colour another's opinion.
Don't presume to tell me what I would or would not think. If one had been an IRA terrorist and the other a Muslim cricketer I would still have argued against the terrorist. You should accept that other people have some flexibility in their thinking and don't automatically toe the party line without question. Try it some time, you may find the concept quite liberating.

loosehead says...
12:16pm Mon 13 Feb 12

Torchie1 wrote:
Linesman wrote:
Torchie1 wrote:
It makes you proud to be a UK citizen when the effort involved in trying to throw out a decent hard working citizen is matched by the effort involved in keeping a muslim terrorist who hates the West, in a free home and the prospect of a lifetime on benefits.
But if the cricketer had been a muslim, and found himself in similar circumstances, would you have expressed the same opinion?

I very much doubt it.

Amazing how the colour of a person's skin and their faith can colour another's opinion.
Don't presume to tell me what I would or would not think. If one had been an IRA terrorist and the other a Muslim cricketer I would still have argued against the terrorist. You should accept that other people have some flexibility in their thinking and don't automatically toe the party line without question. Try it some time, you may find the concept quite liberating.
Torhie the problem with what you've been saying is an illegal alien(immigrant) shouldn't be working & wouldn't be working if they weren't here illegally.
to say they have jobs & are good members of society is wrong the job they're doing could be done by either a British citizen or a legal immigrant so that argument doesn't hold up.
If they had not come here illegally they wouldn't be working!
Any immigrant who comes to this country & then starts preaching or taking part in terrorist activities that person & they're family should be deported.
any illegal immigrant who starts a family whilst here illegally should along with they're family be deported. The children wouldn't be British & they wouldn't be married to a UK citizen if they hadn't come here illegally so by allowing them to stay your making a statement saying it's okay to break the law.
Abu Hamsa should be put on a plane to Jordan this is our country this was our decision & as far as I know we aren't governed by a European Government so what right have they got to over rule our laws & our government?
Who the hell voted for the EU? I thought it was the EEC people were conned into?

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