A community worker was left unable to prove his refugee status or travel to see his family due to eVisa problems in the latest in a string of issues facing foreign nationals.
Exclusive: Jorge Gomez was unable to travel to South America to see his family due to a delay getting his eVisa after latest Home Office IT error.
Andreea Dumitrache, chief executive at citizens rights group The3million, said: “It’s disgraceful how Jorge’s eVisa was broken for a second time, pushing him into insecurity, waiting for months on end, unable to even make plans to visit his family who he’s not seen for so many years.
“We’ve received hundreds of reports of countless eVisa errors in the last few months alone.” She added that the system was “inherently flawed and authoritarian, denying people their personal freedom and rights, pushing migrants into destitution, taking away job opportunities and causing travel chaos”.
However, despite applying three times, he was left waiting for an eVisa for months, with the delay ending his plans to see his family abroad in January.
