'When coronavirus began shutting down borders worldwide, it had an unexpected positive impact on people like me.'
It was 24 March when I found out I was getting a renewed lease on my life in the UK. I had been given the gift of time – a gift I never expected to come about as a result of a global pandemic.
I moved to the UK when I was 17, and I’ve spent my entire adult life here. I’m 23 now, but it truly feels like the UK is the only home I know. It’s where I have my business, my friends, and a great deal of my family.And yet staying here has been almost bizarrely impossible for me. Despite having a British grandfather and having my self-employed business here – including publicly funded work – the UK gave me few opportunities to stay.One by one, the options started falling through.
I wasn’t about to abandon my entire creative enterprise to get a standard work visa, nor was one even realistic in my industry. With every other avenue blocking me, I was forced to start packing. It could’ve been worse. I’m from California originally; a location I’ve found to be incredibly over-glamourised in the UK. But as a gay man from a hyper-religious, Trump-crazed rural community back in America, returning home wasn’t entirely ideal for me.
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