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7/5     Guy living in the airport like Tom Hanks in The Terminal (the movie):
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050701/od_nm/kenya_britain_dc
        \- i think the original story is more interesting:
           http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990820.html
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Reuters Man who lived in Kenyan airport gets UK citizenship By Andrew Cawthorne Fri Jul 1,10:15 AM ET NAIROBI (Reuters) - A man who has lived for more than a year at Nairobi's international airport to protest being denied entry to Britain has fina lly been granted UK citizenship and plans to fly there within days. Click Here In a real-life African version of Tom Hanks' 2004 Hollywood hit "The Term inal," Sanjai Shah, 43, has been eating cafeteria food, sleeping on plas tic transit lounge chairs, and showering in arrival hall toilets since M ay last year. His morning alarm is the dawn announcement advising the safe landing of t he first flight. All the staff know me, they're very friend ly," Shah told Reuters. Shah obtained a British Overseas Citizen passport since he was born in Ke nya when it was under colonial rule. But when he flew to England without a return ticket or sufficient funds, he was deported with "prohibited immigrant" stamped in his passport -- n egating the document. By then he had renounced Kenyan citizenship because local law prohibits d ual nationality, so found himself in limbo and decided to stay at the ai rport outside Nairobi. Now, however, Shah's ordeal -- which British authorities say was largely self-inflicted -- looks to be over. The High Commission has decided in principle to grant him full UK citizen ship, pending a "citizenship ceremony." With that scheduled for July 12, he could be on a plane out the next day. "But I am not moving from here until July 12 when I will go directly from the air port to the High Commission." British Embassy spokesman Mark Norton confirmed the decision to grant Sha h citizenship, but said his protest had actually slowed the procedure to grant him full citizenship. "For reasons best known to him, he decided to stay at the airport when he could have come back into Kenya. In the 2004 film, Hanks' character is stranded in a New York airport afte r his eastern European homeland erupts into civil war, leaving him state less, unable to return home but not allowed officially to enter the Unit ed States. It was inspired by the true story of an Iranian-born man who has lived in Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for 16 years. I have asked so many people to bring the film so I can see it, but no one has," Shah said. He said it was tough being separated from his wife and 15-year-old son, w ho have been bringing him money and a plate of his favorite Indian food once a week. "Now I will go to stay with my sister in Hounslow (London) and look for a job. Then I will bring the family to start a new life," he said. Kenyan-born British national Sanjai Shah walks at Nairobi's internati onal airport in this December 14, 2004 file photo. Shah, who has lived f or more than a year at Nairobi's international airport to protest being denied entry to Britain, has finally been granted UK citizenship and p lans to fly there within days. Republication or r edistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the pri or written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any error s or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon .
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A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil's storehouse of human knowledge Has a guy been stuck in the Paris airport since 1988 for lack of the right p apers? gif Dear Cecil: The following appeared in Chuck Shepherd's "News of the Weird" feature. French auth orities would not let him leave the airport, and there he has been ever since, in Terminal One, luggage at his side, reading, writing in his d iary, studying economics, receiving food and newspapers from airport em ployees. Charles de Gaulle spokesman Danielle Yzerman said of Nas seri, "An airport is kind of a place between heaven and earth. On first reading this I was as incredulous as the next guy. So I sent my henchman Mike Lenehan to the Paris airport to check things out firsthand . At TSD we've got a handle on nearly everything, but some things stump even us. Nasseri is in the kind of jam for which the term Kafkaesque was invented. In 1977 he was expelled from his native Iran for antigovernment activit y After bouncing around Europe seeking political asylum, he was finally granted refugee status by Belgium in 1981. Later he decided to head for England--he'd done some postgraduate work there, his mother was British , and apparently he figured he had some claim to British citizenship. Un fortunately, in 1988, when he tried to put this plan into action, his pa pers were stolen from him at a train station in France. He flew to Londo n anyway but, lacking a passport, was sent back to France by British aut horities. French police arrested him, but there was no place to deport h im to. A French court ruled that he can't be expelled from the airport, and some think Nasser i, now in his mid-50s, will be there the rest of his life. Questions crowd the mind when one considers Nasseri's situation. Couldn't he just call Belgium and get a copy of the necessary documents? They argued that Nasseri had to present himself in person so that they could be sure he was the same man to who m they had granted political asylum years before. But, inexplicably, the Belgian government refused at that point to allow Nasseri to return the re. And under Belgian law a refugee who voluntarily leaves a country tha t has accepted him cannot return." This isn't strictly a matter of bureaucratic pigheadedness; in Europe the re's widespread resentment of refugees and foreigners, due among other t hings to high unemployment. European governments have always been leery of admitting displaced persons, lest they be overwhelmed. The French human rights lawyer Christian Bourget has been arguing Nasseri 's case in the courts for years. Lots of journalists have written about him, and a movie about him was made in 1994. In 1995 the Belgians kinda caved and said Nasseri could come live in their country if he agreed to be supervised by a social worker. Most people would've said, Anything to get out of this frigging airport. The common view now is that Nasseri has lost his marbles due to long conf inement and doesn't want to leave the airport. Sympathetic airport staff help him out with his ba sic needs. Last month Belgian officials reinstated Nasseri's refugee status. Althoug h nothing is certain, he may yet get to England. Philippe Bargain, the airport's medic al director, is quoted as saying. Although Iranian by birth, Nasseri blames Iran for his troubles and has been trying to obtain citizenship elsewher e "He says he must consider his future carefully. He may want to go to Belg ium or England," the Times reported in 1999. "But his eyes really light up when he talks about the airport." Chicago Reader Online Rate Sheet Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Chicago Reader, In c All rights reserved. No material contained in this site may be republished or reposted without express written permission.