A petition is appealing to the Home Office urging indefinite leave to remain be granted for Gurmit Kaur.
More than 50,000 people have already signed the petition for the 75-year-old woman from Smethwick who fears being deported, and aims to reach as many as 75,000 signatories. Now, #WeAreAllGurmit is asking that she is granted indefinite leave to remain.
Kaur has lived in the UK for more than 10 years. She was informed by the Home Office that she must leave voluntarily or be made to return to India where she has no family. She does not have an official visa and is categorised as an undocumented migrant.
In 2013 Gurmit received a letter from the Home Office telling her that she should leave voluntarily or face deportation. According to the campaigners she is a victim of the hostile environment measures put in place by successive governments to clamp down on illegal immigration.
However, the Home Office has stated that they have not contacted Ms Kaur Sahota since 2013, so it is wrong to claim we have been pursuing deportation. According to them, Gurmit Kaur has made no attempt to regularise her stay or voluntarily leave the country since 2010.
