At 51, he moved to Sweden with his wife in the hope for a better life; at 60, he is being asked to return to Britain. With authorities on his back and no option in the future, Mark Smith has been forced into hiding alongside his wife Petra due to fears he will be deported as a result of what he says is a government Brexit residency error, as per a report by The Guardian.Smith, who has had heart attacks, strokes, severe headaches and chronically high blood pressure, was told on the phone that he should leave Sweden by October 17, as he was an "alien" without permission to stay. Terrified of deportation, he and his wife moved out of their home in Falkenberg, in south-west Sweden, to a caravan park. "We are in hiding; we daren’t go back to our apartment. We are scared to go out as we don’t know if the police will come and take us," Smith said.A court ruled on October 12 that a decision on deportation would not be suspended but gave him until October 20 to "submit his application for a retrial" in relation to "the grounds for the decision on indefinite deportation."It was back in 2017 that he moved to Sweden. At the time, Smith was told by the authorities that he did not need to do any...








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