Let Katherine Stay!

Let Katherine stay in the UK!

Katherine Beria has been issued with a deportation order after serving her sentence for offences committed as a minor. Despite having served her sentences, she now faces deportation to a country she does not remember. Spending her childhood in care, she is a vulnerable young adult, who needs support and a chance to start her life, not to have it ripped away from her. She wants to tell her story.

My name is Katherine Beria.

I have been served with a Deportation Order.

I am 19 years old & I have been in the care system from the age of 8. I had committed 3 robberies and was served with a custodial sentence of 3 years & 6 months. I have been in Young Offenders since 24th September 2013 and was under section 31 Full care order age at 16. I was told to finish my sentence by the Youth Justice Board which was on 20th March 2014. I finished my sentence and earned earned my early release on the 10th November 2014 but it has been taken away by immigration.

I was then taken to Yarl's Wood Detention centre, where I face deportation. I have been living in the UK since I was 8 years old and that was when I was also placed in the care system. I had entered the UK with my mother, sister and step dad. I was born in Venezuela but my mum had registered me in Guyana.

I do not have any family in either country. I do not remember anything apart from when my real father passed away in 2002 in Venezuela and then moving to Guyana and then to the United Kingdom.

I have no family in either country. I suffered abuse in childhood and I have had mental health problems since. I was in care from the age of 8. I have realised my mistakes, and worked hard for a chance to build a life here. Please sign asking Teresa May to give me that chance.