A woman who has lived in the UK for more than a decade claims she was left feeling "criminalised" when she returned to the country from her homeland last week. Laurence Sauvage-Lumb, originally from Lille, and who lives in Ormskirk, Lancashire, with her husband and daughter, was returning from her native France last Thursday, April 14, when she told LancsLive the humiliating incident occurred at around 10.30pm.
The 52-year-old, who had been to visit the grave of her beloved twin who passed away in Lille last year, says passport control at Manchester Airport asked how long she was planning to stay in the country. She says she was then asked to "prove" that she lived in England. The mum has lived in the UK for 15 years, is married to a UK national and obtained settled status post Brexit.
She said: “When I was asked for my passport, I was asked how long are you planning to stay in England for? I said, I live here, and she said to me, well you’re French, so can you prove this? There was no mention of settled status; I was on the floor, I’ve never been so humiliated.”
