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NICK GRIFFIN 1) 6 Jan 2013: BritCits to Nick Griffin MEP Dear MEP BritCits is a group representing British citizens

across the UK - including ones in your constituency. We appreciate you are MEPs, however, being MEPs, you represent Europe, and as British citizens, we are also European citizens. Additionally, we hope that being politicians, you are especially concerned with the rights of British citizens in Britain, and European citizens in Europe. Indeed, human rights which this government is doing its utmost to obliterate. Please find attached a letter from, and some case studies compiled by, BritCits showing the devastating impact these new rules are having on innocent British lives, demonstrating the lack of thought put into rules which only serve to stop people being with their loved ones WITHOUT RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS!. The measures in place demonstrate a genuine lack of understanding on behalf of the politicians who have allowed these rules in. They show how out of touch with reality some MPs are, that the rules will not benefit the economy and will not even serve to achieve a random net immigration target of tens of thousands, despite forcibly exiling hard working British people from their own country. Our letter shows how someone who is British can't have their, say, Australian parents join them at all even if are a higher rate tax payer and can provide financial guarantees, or have their Japanese spouse live with them unless they can maintain a prescribed salary for five years, yet someone from the EU has no such restrictions and can indeed, bring in not only their spouse without any income requirement, but both, their and their spouse's parents, grandparents, children, siblings and even aunts, uncles and cousins. This pack will bring you across families whose personal lives are being torn apart - families who are turning into the Skype generation, whereby meals, bedtime stories and birthday celebrations are all via a computer screen and hugs and kisses are all virtual...that too, only if global time differences allow it. We plead with you to please have these rules thrown out and get involved in the APPG. They have not been brought in legally. Insufficient research has been carried out to justify them. And indeed, having criteria that no one can meet has got to be illegal (e.g. the route to dependant parents has been completely closed off in all but name). Kind regards BritCits britcits@gmail.com 2) 17 Jan 2013: From Nicolle Yates on behalf of Nick Griffin Dear BritCits, Thank you for your email regarding APPG discussions on family migration. Mr Griffin has asked me to reply to you on his behalf. The family migration inquiry was launched last November by a cross-party committee of MPs and peers through the APPG on Migration with the aim of gathering evidence on the impacts of the changes to the family migration rules (in particular the new income requirement to sponsor a partner and/or child, and rule changes affecting elderly dependents) that came into force on 9th July 2012. Unfortunately I am afraid that, as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Mr Griffin is not eligible to debate or vote on proposals in the House of Commons or House of Lords and is therefore excluded from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) discussions on family migration. Kind regards

Nicolle Yates Community Outreach Officer For Nick Griffin, MEP 3) 17 Jan 2013: From BritCits to Nicolle Yates Hi Nicolle Thank you for your response on behalf of Nick Griffin. I appreciate he cant vote on these policies, but he must be able to discuss these policies with his colleagues and other politicians - the especially poor impact they are having on British citizens living in the UK (!) is unacceptable. Regards BritCits

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