are there any foreigners here who came to britain?

Question

if so why ,please be honest

good for them mister but i was refering to recently but ta for answering.

kobie 65 sorry to hear about wife its a horrid desease.can i ask you what are piblic funds exactly.

Answer 1

you are joking aren't you ?

Answer 2

Birmingham City council invited my father to the UK 30 years ago (hes from Ghana ). He work in the housing development for the council 3 years but got feed up because the council weren’t doing anything to help the British people so he set up his on company and has been contribution (tax, jobs etc.) to the country ever since.

Answer 3

There isn't a single person in this country that isn't foreign, and it is only ingorance that sees british Culture as a pure and independant thing.

Our culture comes from being invaded, or culturally expanded, we have allowed people into/onto our fair Isle when it suited us. Just look at the Slave Trade (1), or how we welcomed workers from places we once invaded like Jamacia to help us re-build after world war 2. Or the British Gurka's who are probably more British than the SAS only less recognised because of the colour of their skin (2) would you question these if they chose to live here?

Why do you choose to live here, there is no such thing as a pure Brit, our royal family is mostly Greek and German, the english bloodline is full of Normandy (french), Viking (Norweigian) and Roman (Italian) genes. I mean, some 350,000 people had emigrated from England across the Atlantic by the end of the 17th century. ~ Would you call their decendants foreigners?

And even more of us have emigrated since then. Just because people choose to live here, or leave here, doesn't make them less or more foreign...

You would have thought that something would have been learned from the disasters of the British Empire, it was not that long ago hong Kong was part of the UK.

Ok, thats my rant.

It is obvious that people come here because it is better than where they are from. You try living in a crubling brick house where tanks roll past on a daily basis and your sister is lying in one of many mass graves where she was a victim of the genocide in that countries regime...

Then come back and ask the same question, because I fear that until you have lived like a 'foreigner' you will never find a satisfactory answer.

Answer 4

Yes i am a foreigner living in the UK.my reasons for coming here 3 and a half years ago isn't so nice after all.met my wife in south Africa 20 odd years ago.her family went out there when work was very scarce in the UK.we married and had kids.however she got cancer and wanted to go home.she died from the disease,and am just waiting to finish off a couple of issues here before i return to South Africa.any person that thinks that all immigrants just wanna live of the state is very dis informed.when you apply for residence there is a clear stipulation.NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS.

Answer 5

My grandparents came here for a better life and more opportunities. They have been very successful in this, paying their own way and not taking a penny off the state. This was in the late 50's however when the British were openly saying that they wanted more immigrants.

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Its alright chuck :)

Answer 6

I emigrated here from Australia although I don't really see myself as a foreigner because my parents emigrated to Australia befoer I was born from the UK. I came here for a new experience for a year and decided I liked the country and because I'm entittled to claim British Citizenship I stayed.

Answer 7

I think I am a foreigner living in the UK for 9 years without visa. My reason to come here my wife who is Uk citizen. Our marriage didn't work and we got deverco in first year. So I am still here.
Good luck to me

Answer 8

to escape the hollow-cause

Answer 9

loads of. you dont see it around you ?
come on, england is becoming new Poland.

Answer 10

me but i m not telling you why.hahahahaha