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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Bancroft

‘The Home Office is forcing me to leave the UK and a job I love to go to a country I’ve never called home’

A British Airways cabin crew member was forced to abandon his dream career eight years after arriving in the UK when the Home Office told him to move to a country where he says he has never lived.

Shady El Farra, a 28-year-old Egyptian national whose primary language is English, came to the UK to study in 2016, having grown up between the United States and Saudi Arabia due to his parents’ jobs as academics.

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