Your feature (Dining across the divide, 13 February) states that one of the participants, Joyanna, “said her family had come here as part of the Windrush generation because they’d been specifically asked for; that was what the country needed at the time. She objected to people coming to the UK who haven’t been invited.” With all due respect to Joyanna, the Windrush generation did not require invitations to come to the UK.
My parents are of the Windrush generation (still going strong, having celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this month). I have the travel documents that my parents used to travel to the UK. My mother’s passport and the travel document issued to my father (there was a shortage of passports in Jamaica at the time, so it’s a piece of paper with his photograph attached) clearly state that they were British citizens.
