Help me please!!

has anyone ever been refused leave to enter the UK? what happened? how
did this effect subsequent visits?

background on my story and questions


ok so i flew out to visit my boyfriend for 5 months and when i arrived
i was detained and then subsequently returned to the us because of not
being able to show

a- that i was definetly leaving after the 5 months, even though i had a
return ticket.
b- that i was unable to support myself, because my bank statement didnt
have all of my available funds on it.
c- they said that there were some conflictions between mine and my
boyfriends statements, even though the immigration officer needed to
double check a bunch of things because he had gotten them confused. at
the time my boyfriend was never my sponsor, this was an assumption made
by the officer. the same officer who made several derogatory comments
about Wales and the Welsh. Is there any grounds to file a complaint for
regionalistic and racist comments? will this help my case when i go to
the consulate? one of my friends that i was to be staying with there is
Welsh and when i told the officer this he made several nasty remarks
and then told me it was not looking good for me.

i was deined entry and sent back home, but the officer told my
boyfriend that i could return as soon as i had all of the proper
documents. basically they sent me back because i couldnt prove that i
had anything to return to united states for, evn though that was my
intention. i am going to the consulate this week to apply for a
visitors visa to be on the safe side, but is there anything specific i
should bring with me. i am going to be staying at a hostel while i am
there on holiday because that will emimilate the need for a sponsor
correct? any advice or suggestions would be fantastic. im just worried
that when i go to the consulate that they will see the mark on my
passport, even though i have several other entry visas on there
already. Based on the way i was treated I am very paranoid now dealing
with customs and immigration officials. i know they arent all like
this, but now im nervous. I'd like to return to the UK for 2 weeks at
the end of the months so I can at least visit my boyfriend for a short
period of time but am nervous. Im going to apply for a visitors visa
this week in New York.

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=20062.0

thanks a bunch for that link. i am totally paranoid because of that
officer. he had me tripping up over the truth, which really irratated
and frustrated me.

Please allow me to offer you my heartfelt sympathy on this issue. Just
last Thursday I was in your EXACT same situation. I was coming to the
UK after spending Christmas with my boyfiend and when I got to Passport
Control, I was suspected and detained for seven hours before they
wanted to send me back to the US. They searched my luggage and in my
luggage was my diary. In ONE passage (only lasting a few sentences) I
expressed my frustrations about not being able to get a job in the UK,
which the officers found as incriminating.

I spent over 24 hours in a holding room with hardly any food and not a
bed for the night before my flight took off the next afternoon. I
suffer from anxiety in which I take anti-depressants, they wouldn't let
me take my medicine as "they weren't sure how I'd react". My boyfriend
who was sick with worry kept calling to try to get someone to give me
my medication. I was so scared, I know now what hell is really like.

Needless to say the officers were so rude and nasty to me, I spent the
whole time crying my eyes out. I'm a VERY sensative person and I take
things personally. They wouldn't even let my boyfriend answer any
questions as to the validity of our relationship which they thought was
totally bogus.

PLEASE, I'm sick with worry at not being able to be with my boyfriend
and if you've gotten farther than I have in this case, if you wouldn't
mind passing on your advice to me. I dearly miss him and I want to be
with him terribly. I can't help but be a paranoid wreck at the moment.

Please email me! juanita5646@yahoo.com