HSMP Forum, which supports and assists skilled workers in the United Kingdom, has claimed that British immigration officials humiliate, harass and abuse highly skilled Indian workers returning from foreign trips.
Overzealous British immigration officials have been accused of humiliating, harassing and abusing some of the highly skilled Indian workers returning from foreign holidays, executive director of Highly Skilled Migrant Programme Forum Amit Kapadia said in a statement on Thursday.
The forum has received various complaints from legal migrants about the "humiliation, harassment and abuse suffered at the hands of immigration officials at some of the UK's busiest airports like Heathrow, Manchester and Belfast," Kapadia said.
"Though migrants are used to of discrimination and harassment, these new revelations show how the Border Control now stooped to the lowest level in dealing with the legal immigrants," he said.
"We regularly receive emails and telephone calls about the harassment and discrimination of our members, who are in the UK under skilled migrant visa, suffer from overly zealous immigration officers," Kapadia added.
"Our members complained that they and their families were harassed after returning from abroad trips by the immigration authorities, though they are legally entitled to re-enter the country," he said.
The forum has urged government authorities to control such unlawful behaviour by border officers so that the migrants could travel, work and finally integrate in the UK community freely and fearlessly.
