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The mind of the UK Border Agency is unfathomable and inconsistent.
They have just refused visas to the Lahore Pipe Band who were going to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. It didn’t seem to matter that this pipe band has competed in the same competition for the last four years!
They also knocked back most of a trade delegation from Lahore even though the British High Commissioner in Islamabad gave them his recommendation. Perversely, they agreed the Mayor of Lahore could visit, but not his wife!
Glasgow MSP Anne McLaughlin said members of Lahore Pipe Band faced problems in securing visas to visit Scotland last year before they were eventually granted and added, ‘For this to happen once was bad enough, to repeat it this year is a disgrace’.
I have every sympathy for the Scottish Culture Minister, Mike Russell, who said:, ‘The Scottish Government is in touch with the UK Border Agency to discover the details of the case and we will do everything we can to help.’
I wish him well for, if he can improve the workings of this arcane government agency, he will be doing all of us a favour!
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The mind of the UK Border Agency is unfathomable and inconsistent.
They have just refused visas to the Lahore Pipe Band who were going to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. It didn’t seem to matter that this pipe band has competed in the same competition for the last four years!
They also knocked back most of a trade delegation from Lahore even though the British High Commissioner in Islamabad gave them his recommendation. Perversely, they agreed the Mayor of Lahore could visit, but not his wife!
Glasgow MSP Anne McLaughlin said members of Lahore Pipe Band faced problems in securing visas to visit Scotland last year before they were eventually granted and added, ‘For this to happen once was bad enough, to repeat it this year is a disgrace’.
I have every sympathy for the Scottish Culture Minister, Mike Russell, who said:, ‘The Scottish Government is in touch with the UK Border Agency to discover the details of the case and we will do everything we can to help.’
I wish him well for, if he can improve the workings of this arcane government agency, he will be doing all of us a favour!
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