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For me, the worst thing about battling the hostile environment was the loss of dignity. It wasn’t the lack of certainty, or even the fear that your life as you knew it could be taken away by a deportation order. It was that while you were navigating the immigration system and its arbitrary cruelty, you were humiliated. You were made to beg.
So broken is the Home Office, so crippled by years of changing laws and poor funding, that once you have fallen foul of it, there is little reason or coherence to the process. And so you flail around, feeding it documents, attending its endless interviews, paying money into it with every application, with little confidence that it will do any good.
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