• qyron
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    3 days ago

    But why will your daughter be taken from you?

    Again, isn’t it possible for you to stay in the UK indefinetely? Just settle there? Or perhaps on some other european country?

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      3 days ago

      It’s possible for me to stay here indefinitely. She is not a citizen and she would not get citizenship for 10 years. And she can only stay on a family visa if I make more than £29,000 a year, which I won’t because no one wants to hire me.

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        3 days ago

        But can’t your daughter apply for a work visa herself? Or a school one?

        And what are your skills? If my countrymen, dumb as doorknobs go there and find work, it can’t be that hard.

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          3 days ago

          She’s 14, so no work visa. And there’s no such thing a grade school visa.

          As far as my skills, years of media production and post production, but between chronic health issues and having to put my daughter in online school due to severe bullying, I am 5 years behind the times and, unsurprisingly, no one is interested.

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            3 days ago

            She’s too young, obviously. But being so young is she in risk of deportation? Families tend to enjoy a bit more liniency.

            You may be a bit outdated but I’m going to risk you are not “unusable”. I can’t fathom what you actually do but there must be something you can do with those skills.

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              3 days ago

              Yes, she is only here on a travel visa. She can stay a maximum of six months until she’s here illegally.

              And you would think there would be something worth hiring me for, but apparently not.

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                3 days ago

                Strange laws. Children from immigrant families can enroll to school in my country even while their families are waiting for have their requests processed to become declared immigrants.

                Squid, I’m going to be level with you. I risk we’re in the same time zone. It’s getting late and I’ve been awake since four a.m.; I’m running on fumes here.

                Feel free to message me if you feel like chatting a bit. I spend way too much time here, under the excuse of getting some information in my head.

                Keep trying, both for work and for a way to get your daughter to be safe there, here, in Europe, permanently. Please, Squid. From a father to another. We can never give up.