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Ian, my kids wouldn’t be alive if I encountered such rules many years ago. I simply wouldn’t be here.

Back then, I moved to Australia from Brazil to study, met my husband and became and Australian citizen some later years. We had Australian kids and were brought to the UK sponsored by an employer in higher education.

Through Brazilian family roots, I am also an Italian citizen, and unfortunately as it stands I ended up with three citizenships and yet not a citizen of the country I live in.

All this background just to say that having lived in another country as an immigrant, I cannot explain to you how much I feel unwanted by the UK. Unwanted as an Italian, as a Brazilian and as an Australian. This article just validates my feelings and all the bad stuff that comes with them. In a selfish way, I’m glad I’m not alone. Thanks so much for writing and publishing it.

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