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07.01.2013. The home secretary, Theresa
May, has promised to look into the cases of people entitled to live in Britain
who have been wrongly told to leave the country by a private company acting on
behalf of the UK Border Agency (UKBA).
Capita, which won a £40m UKBA contract to
trace 174,000 migrants living illegally in the country from September, has been
sending text messages and emails to them telling they are required to leave
Britain. But immigration lawyers say those who have received Capita's texts in
recent weeks include a woman with a valid British passport and a man with a
valid visa who had invested £1m in a UK-based business.
The standard text message from the firm
reads: "Message from the UK Border Agency: You are required to leave the
UK as you no longer have the right to remain." It urges recipients to
contact UKBA immediately.
Lawyers say the texts were sent out over
the Christmas period and those who were wrongly informed they needed to leave
the country were left extremely distressed and upset.
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