IN JAMAICA: (GOOD NEWS UPDATE) British Gov't gives urgent attention to stranded man's case for 64 y-o Lloyd Bogle....Bogle lives in UK for 57 years after leaving JAMAICA at the age of 7 but was not allowed to return.... Lawyers offer to help stranded Lloyd Bogle

BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com  Wednesday, January 21, 2015    
THE British High Commission in Jamaica has asked United Kingdom Immigration authorities to give urgent attention to the case of Lloyd Bogle, the 64-year-old Jamaican who has been living in England for more than 50 years and who, because of his immigration status, is now stranded here after a two-week visit.
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 Lloyd Bogle, the 64-year-old Jamaican
"We are aware of the case. I was sorry to read about Mr Bogle's situation today," British High Commissioner David Fitton told the Jamaica Observer yesterday after seeing the newspaper's front page story.
"I have asked colleagues in UK Visas and Immigration to review the case urgently. I cannot really comment any further on an individual case for reasons of privacy," Fitton added.
Front cover of today's paperBogle, who left Jamaica in 1957 when he was seven years old, arrived in the island on September 29, 2014 on a two-week visit to see the land of his birth, given that he had not travelled since going to England.
However, when he got to Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on October 13 last year to take a return flight to England, he was told by Immigration officials that they could not allow him to leave.
"I got the shock of my life when I was turned back and told by authorities that I would have to have a visa to leave the country," Bogle told the Observer on Monday.
He admitted that he never applied for British citizenship during all his years in England and that he travelled to Jamaica on a Jamaican passport that he applied for and received shortly before his trip. more

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