Passport and citizenship
mardi 24 novembre 2020 à 01:00The UK wrongly confiscated Ken Morgan's passport in 1994 after an intended brief visit to Jamaica, which forced him to stay in Jamaica until 2018. In that year he applied for UK citizenship, but it was denied because he had been away from the UK for so many years.
The fact that officials could make this decision shows the wrong premises with which they approach such decision in general.
By the way, this is an example of a mistake that Joseph Heller has pointed out: people apply the term "Catch 22" incorrectly to other situations. What officials did to Morgan was unjust, but does not have the unique special structure of Catch 22.