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While I wait for a decision, I will be volunteering with the Refugee Council and supporting people seeking asylum to adjust to life as an asylum seeker in the UK.
Advice coming from me as a fellow asylum seeker should help them to understand what it’s actually like.
The UK is not our country but we wish they can accept us so that we can give back.
All I am asking for is a chance to have my family with me so I can have my peace of mind and start doing something good for my family and this country.
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If the Home Office told me that they were going to send me to Rwanda, I would rather go back to my home country of Sudan, where I would inevitably be killed.
At least I’d be with my wife and kids there.
Having arrived in the UK in January this year, I’m under the threat of being deported to Rwanda, simply because I came to the UK in search of a better life. Why is the Home Office putting asylum seekers like me through this terrible ordeal?
Life in Sudan was bittersweet.
I got married four years ago and I have two beautiful boys – our family felt complete. I am university educated, and had my own company, house and car.
But as a backdrop to all of this, it’s not safe for my family.
The city is very dangerous because everyone is fighting and killing each other due to ongoing civil conflicts. It is also becoming very expensive. The water is not clean and there is often no electricity.
The Al-janjaweed (the Sudan militia, also called Rapid Support Forces) tried to recruit me. If you join them, you become a killer and a thief just like them. I want my boys to be proud of me – not ashamed – so I could never do it.
But if you are against them, you will get tortured and killed. It is an impossible situation, so that is why I had to leave.
When I was leaving, my idea wasn’t specifically to come to the UK – I just wanted to leave Sudan. A smuggler said he would get me to the UK.
I thought because I knew the language, I could start doing something soon. Never in my life did I think of trying to understand or familiarise myself with the asylum process here. I didn’t think I would need it.
When thinking about our plan for me to come to the UK, there was no way I was going to take my wife and children on the dangerous journey. I wanted to make it to a safe country and then bring them over via a secure route after I was settled.
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The journey itself was incredibly tough. The smugglers take you and only Allah knows when and where you will end up. Sometimes you don’t end up anywhere.
I couldn’t imagine my kids on the journey with me – crying because it’s too cold, too hot, there’s not enough food, it smells too strong or there’s too much loud noise. Very bad, bad memories come to mind – some of which are too traumatic to talk about.
Some guys would come and shout for everyone to stop talking, while a big group of asylum seekers were not even able to breathe for the next 12 or 15 hours because there …read more
Source:: Metro
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