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Amen!

Big Brother star Makosi Musambasi has been given notice by immigration officials to quit Britain, she said.

The 24-year-old Zimbabwean has had her working visa curtailed after leaving her job as a cardiac nurse to appear on the reality show.

She now has 10 days to lodge an appeal. If it fails, she must leave the country or face being deported.

Makosi was quizzed by police after she was stopped on a driving matter.

She was then questioned by immigration officials over whether she had broken the terms of her visa.

Makosi had previously been granted a working visa for her job as a cardiac nurse at Wycombe Hospital, Bucks.

Her spokesman said: "The legal position is that Makosi's working visa has now been curtailed, which means she has to either leave the country or appeal."

Makosi had consulted an immigration lawyer as soon as she left the Big Brother house, he added.

A spokesman for Surrey Police said: "Police stopped a car on the M25 near Stoke D'Abernon on a driving matter.

"A 24-year-old Zimbabwean was then questioned by the immigration services which is now dealing with the matter."

It looks like she has technically broken the rules. I don't suppose we know yet whether 'other' rules may apply as it would appear to be an unusual case.

Where can I get tickets to be part of the crowd for her second eviction?

what goes around comes around.

What's unsual about this case? She earned money from a tv programme when her visa permitted her to work as a nurse. No different than anyone working illegally as a waiter.

Bottom line for me - is she an asset to be working in this country? is she a person we would like to see living in this counrty? Personally, its a big resounding No.



How many Makosi's does it take to change a screw-type lightbulb?
None. She just holds it in the socket and the world revolves around her to screw it in.

@the Makosi joke

She's not to popular in her own country either from what I've heard.

You'll never get anywhere by being arrogant, you'll get everywhere being polite.

But when you're polite arrogant idiots walk all over you.

Well, at least us polite ones are the better people!

31 August 2005 13:13:37 BST
viewlondon

Big Brother loser Makosi Musambasi was near tears when she got thrown out of the BB house but she now has far more pressing concerns after being told she has ten days to leave Britain.

The Zimbabwean nurse was pulled over by police in High Wycombe for not wearing a seatbelt on Monday, but was taken in for questioning after being found to have breached the terms of her visa.

Immigration officials have been interviewing the feisty 24-year-old, as it is thought that her appearing on the Channel 4 reality game show contravened the work permit she used to enter the UK to work as a cardiac nurse.

A Home Office spokesman has stated that any overseas national who left the job for which they were granted a visa would be questioned by immigration officials.

Makosi has reapplied for a new permit since leaving the filmed captivity of the house, but should the Home Office turn her down, she will have only ten days to appeal the decision before being made to leave the country.

After the irritating Zimbabwean was released from custody on Monday night, she angrily told The Sun: "I don’t know what crime I’ve committed. I’d love to keep living in England but just don’t know what’s happening.

"I feel I’ve been used for entertainment and now am being betrayed."

"Don't worry Makosi. If there was a direct link between appearing on Big Brother and being deported, Maxwell and many more before you would be living on the other side of the world by now".

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Used for entertainment and betrayed???Surely that was the great British public luv??

lifestyleextra
Wednesday, 31st August 2005, 19:15

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LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Big Brother loser Makosi tonight vowed to fight eviction from Britain after she broke the terms of her visa by appearing on the show.

The former nurse spent today locked in talks with her lawyers after being arrested at the weekend.

The 24-year-old Zimbabwe-born beauty first arrived in the UK in 1999 and trained as a nurse. She had been granted a visa to work at Wycombe Hospital in Buckinghamshire but now faces deportation.

Makosi - whose surname is Musambasi - was stopped by police for not wearing a seatbelt as a passenger in her sister's car over the Bank Holiday weekend. Officers passed on her details to the Immigration Service and she was subsequently questioned.

Her manager, Del Conboy, said tonight: "We have lodged an appeal. She has been in the country for four years and has saved people's lives and helped run our National Health Service.

"Yes, she did break the terms of her visa, but the implications weren't explained to her properly by Endemol, the Big Brother production company.

"Makosi has been advised by her lawyers not to comment on the situation."

However Mr Conboy added: "It's a bit of a shock how this has happened. Since the day after she came out of the show she has been talking to immigration lawyers and we have been doing this for the last few weeks.

"The Immigration Service knew she was in the house for a few months, but have only chosen to do something about it now.

"Rather than through us, her agency, or Endemol they chose to tell the police station to hold onto her. It's a bit weird how it came about, but never-the-less it did."

Makosi came third in the sixth series of Big Brother, behind winner Anthony and runner-up Eugene.

Mr Conboy added: "She would like to return to nursing after a while. Zimbabwe is a difficult place to be and she wants to stay here for many reasons.

"She has a decent way of life and the training for nurses is better. She has two homes; her parents are in Zimbabwe but her sister, cousins and friends are here and she doesn't want to give all that up."

Quite.

Zzzzzzz.....and according to other sites she can stay.....
Oh if only I had someone I know in Wycombe tomorrow pref...at the hospital...pref on the board...