We were in Asda – me, my wife and our baby son – when the email arrived telling me the Home Office was giving us leave to remain. They’d refused it at first, and we were appealing, but suddenly they changed their minds: they are going to grant us refugee status.
I shouted my wife’s name in the middle of the aisle. I took her hand and raised my other hand in the air. We picked up our son from the pram and kissed him, and we both started to cry. People were watching – they must have thought: “What’s going on with that family?” We didn’t care. We were celebrating. We were so happy, so grateful.
Now we’re still feeling that joy and excitement – real excitement – but there’s also a mixture of anxiety and stress about what’s ahead. We have been living in Britain for more than two years. Now we know we can stay, we’re asking ourselves: “How are we going to survive here? How will we manage with accommodation and bills? What if I don’t find a good job?”
As asylum seekers, we have our accommodation, our gas, our water, and our services paid for, and we have our £40 weekly allowance to live off. Now asylum is granted, we will have to find new accommodation and I can start looking for a job. […]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/asylum-cost-of-living-food-banks-heat-or-eat-diaries
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