Windrush generation: 'I can't drive, I can't work. Sometimes I just want to give up'
A WOMAN caught up in the Windrush scandal has described how she lost her job, driving licence and right to claim benefits - despite being in the UK since 1975. Sonia Williams, who came to Britain from Barbados, said she feels "stressed and numb" by her experience at the hands of the Home Office.
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Ms Williams said: "I can't drive, I can't work, I can't claim benefits, I can't do anything. Sometimes I just want to give up.
"My mum's got citizenship, my dad had right to remain. So I just presumed I had all that, because I was leaving Barbados to come and live with my family. I wasn't just coming on holiday."
Sonia Williams...fury Ms Williams said she does not accept Theresa May's apology over the scandal and just wants her nightmare to end.
She said: "They have been giving me the run-around. No one's telling me where to go or what to do."
She blames the Government for stripping her of her job. She said: "They came to me early 2014 and just asked for ID. They needed to update their records. About six months later, they said we don't need you anymore. We are making you redundant.
"When they took away my driving licence in 2016, I started putting it together and I thought this is all connected and they are saying I am an illegal immigrant."