Four months after they first raised their situation with the Home Office, two Jamaicans who are victims of the Windrush scandals have complained about the slow response from the British Government.
They told Britain’s Guardian newspaper that they are still waiting for essentials including residence cards, suitable accommodation and the right to open a bank account.
The Home Office said the process should ordinarily take up to two weeks.
But there are concerns that the two men’s situations are not exceptional and may have been replicated across the UK.
The Guardian newspaper has heard from one man, 64 year-old Balvin Marshall, who was housed by Haringey council in a property without any carpets and who said he has been unable to open a bank account.
Another man, 63 year-old Oliver Hutchinson, is still staying with family while he waits for his biometric residence card to be issued, despite having raised his case with the Home Office in May.
David Lammy, the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, said the delays were unacceptable and the Home Office had reverted to the slow pace and inefficiency that helped create the problem in the first place now that Windrush had disappeared from the headlines.
Mr. Hutchinson went to the UK from Jamaica in 1970 and said he lived underground for a long time.
He said the Home Office had accepted he was a Windrush citizen and he was not sure why it was taking so long to give him an ID card so he could start his life.
Mr. Marshall, who went to the UK from Jamaica in 1972, said he was granted a biometric residence permit a few months ago but he had been struggling to open a bank account because he did not have all the documentation needed.