U.S. Citizen not allowed in U.K.

[Lansbury 19]

I just had the most terrible experience I could ever imagine travelling overseas. I'm a Nigerian American, has both Nigerian and U.S. passport respectively. I reside in U.S and I believe under the commonwealth law, U.S. Citizens has the right to enter UK for six months to visit family. I got to UK and the next thing was UK immigration grinding me for over 4hrs reason why I'm in U.K. I told them coming to visit and I was holding my return ticket. Even despite that they spoke with my family in UK at the airport to verify my visit. They refused my entry. They claim that I have my resume (CV) in my folder, that means I'm coming in to work in UK. This sound too absurd for me, not to mention money spent already.

I just want to know if there is any lawyer that can help me with this issue. I'm very furious right now. I suspecting Class action and Hate crime on this issue.

You do not have a right to enter to the UK. You present yourself to an immigration officer and request that you may be granted entry. Much like knocking on someones front door and waiting to be invited in, and much like the house owner the immigration officer does not have to admit you

The only people who have a right are those that carry a UK or EU passport of an EU ID card.

The immigration officer only has to suspect that you may not be going to comply with the conditions of entry and you can be refused. I worked alongside immigration officers at Heathrow for many years and saw it happen many times. It works exactly the same way in any other country including Nigeria and the USA.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Unfortunately, there is also another option--we post a "continuation" or "recontinuation" thread--and consider the original as closed (I've done that with the "Movie Pong" threads).

erm, what purpose would a continuation thread serve? OP is long gone.

True, and this one hasn't gotten anywhere near the 3,000 posts which was my justification for "preventive continuation" (slightly before I started the first continuation, Ewok had made a brigadier-fuss about "wasting bandwidth with just counting up/down" on a "counting game thread"--you may remember: start at 50, guys try to push it to 100, while gals try to yank it to 0, increments/decrements of 2).

[*julez* 124]

Oh, for the love! Will someone please lock this thread??? It is well over a year old! The OP is long gone and the periodic resurrection of it serves no purpose.

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

This topic has been closed per the request of the original poster. Thank you for your understanding.