Roger Helmer Mep

BritCits 4:40 PM (3 hours ago)

to HELMER, bcc: me

Thank you for the correction.

Did you read any of the stories in the pack? Do you really think it's too lax for Andy, with his kids here, and wife in China, facing a 10 year ban, despite not having done anything wrong?! Do you think it's too lax for Yana, who is prepared to take complete financial responsibility for her mother? These are all British citizens, who despite doing everything right, are being told they can't be with their family.

Managing immigration is the way to go. Encouraging integration, absolutely. But denying British citizens the right to live in their country, with their family, without recourse to public funds, is not.

It's disappointing you have the views you do - we hope the pack goes some way towards educating you on the impact the rules are having, if you'll spare some time to read any of it. Otherwise one day perhaps someone in your family will migrate to Australia or America or parts of Asia, and I hope they treat your loved ones in the same way you think we should be treating our citizens.

BritCits

On 8 January 2013 16:08, HELMER Roger <[email protected]> wrote:Dear Brit Cits, Thank you for writing to me. I need to correct a couple of points. You say I represent Europe. Absolutely not. On the contrary, I represent the East Midlands in Europe, which is pretty much the direct opposite. Nor do I agree that as Brits we are European citizens. I absolutely reject "European citizenship". I'm a Brit. End of story. You seem to be complaining about efforts by the Coalition to curb immigration. But frankly, my only complaint about current immigration policy is that it is still too lax, and that current levels of immigration are excessive, and are damaging our social services and social cohesion. I should certainly be urging the government to try harder in this area. Best regards. ROGER HELMER MEPwww.rogerhelmer.com Follow me on Twitter: RogerHelmerMEP

From: BritCits [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 January 2013 15:24To: [email protected]; [email protected];

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Dear MEP

BritCits is a group representing British citizens across the UK - including ones in your constituency. We appreciate you are MEPs, however, being MEPs, you represent Europe, and as British citizens, we are also European citizens. Additionally, we hope that being politicians, you are especially concerned with the rights of British citizens in Britain, and European citizens in Europe. Indeed, human rights which this government is doing its utmost to obliterate.

Please find attached a letter from, and some case studies compiled by, BritCits showing the devastating impact these new rules are having on innocent British lives, demonstrating the lack of thought put into rules which only serve to stop people being with their loved ones WITHOUT RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS!.

The measures in place demonstrate a genuine lack of understanding on behalf of the politicians who have allowed these rules in. They show how out of touch with reality some MPs are, that the rules will not benefit the economy and will not even serve to achieve a random net immigration target of tens of thousands, despite forcibly exiling hard working British people from their own country. Our letter shows how someone who is British can't have their, say, Australian parents join them at all even if are a higher rate tax payer and can

provide financial guarantees, or have their Japanese spouse live with them unless they can maintain a prescribed salary for five years, yet someone from the EU has no such restrictions and can indeed, bring in not only their spouse without any income requirement, but both, their and their spouse's parents, grandparents, children, siblings and even aunts, uncles and cousins.

This pack will bring you across families whose personal lives are being torn apart - families who are turning into the Skype generation, whereby meals, bedtime stories and birthday celebrations are all via a computer screen and hugs and kisses are all virtual...that too, only if global time differences allow it.

We plead with you to please have these rules thrown out and get involved in the APPG. They have not been brought in legally. Insufficient research has been carried out to justify them. And indeed, having criteria that no one can meet has got to be illegal (e.g. the route to dependant parents has been completely closed off in all but name).

Kind regards

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