The writing style is truly terrible - I'm not sure the author understands full-stops (/periods).<p>However, I read enough to discover how the deportation started, and I can understand why an official would have difficulty believing that a professional singer would be performing publicly for no comercial gain, if not for a charity gig.
I have more than a folder full of paper work for visa applications that I have done over the years, mostly just to let me into countries for a visit, let alone work. Apart from that the paperwork I had to do to actually allow me to work in various countries. I am extremely careful about not breaking any immigration laws in any of the countries, e.g. not do anything that resembles paid or unpaid work except what's explicitly allowed in my visa. Once you get caught breaking immigration rules in one country, it becomes really hard to travel to other countries with strict immigration controls.<p>I tend to read about people who travel and casually break immigration rules with a certain level of schadenfreude, whether it's singers just casually lining up some gigs or people who overstay their 3 month visa waiver to the USA.<p>Some people think filling in an ESTA is effort (man I have to spend weeks preparing paperwork to be able to be granted a visa that allows me to fill in an ESTA in the first place), but events like these make me realise that at least some people get a small taste of what it's like for the rest of us who spend part of our lives having to deal with ever changing rules and paperwork and being at the mercy of the mood of an immigration official.
Not to take away from the subject, but these EU-mandated cookie notices are really starting to get annoying. How long until you have to consent to the entire T&C of a site and verify your age to get in? </rant>
My dealings with government officials is never give them more information than they ask and always tell the truth. If you need to lie believe the lie until it is the truth ;).<p>If you are in transit, quite common for Heathrow, don't mention you have family in the UK unless they ask for family in the UK. If they do ask know where they live. If you have a tourist visa don't mention work you plan to or might be doing in the near future in the UK.<p>They are there to try and trip you up in a lie so they can question you further. You know how you can tell someone is lying by the way they go into too much detail on some aspects of their story but not others, don't be that person.
Yesterday the census results were published: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20677515" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20677515</a><p>They showed that Britain had experienced such massive immigration in the past ten years that native Britons are now a minority in their own capital city. Given that, it's not surprising if immigration officials are becoming a little over zealous.
I am sorry she got deported but between the fonts, short sentences and colors I already have a headache...at maybe 20% of the article.<p>sorry for being off topic but it annoyed the hell out of me.