Trevor Ellis’ parents are buried on British soil. His children were born in British hospitals. He was schooled in British classrooms and all his life he has toiled in British workplaces.

And yet the 71-year-old has been left asking why he has been repeatedly refused a British passport.

Now - like thousands of other Windrush migrants - he finds himself in limbo, unable to travel to see relatives in the Caribbean for fear of not been allowed back into the country where he has lived since he was a boy.

Mr Ellis, who came here as a child with his mother in 1958, says he has been denied a British passport by Home Office officials, despite showing civil servants numerous documents proving he has lived and worked in Britain for 60 years.

At one stage he says the Home Office even refused to accept one of its own letters stating he should not be deported as proof of his indefinite leave to remain.

Trevor Ellis, 71, said: “The way the Home Office has treated me and people like me is terrible. My parents came here to help rebuild this country and we need to be treated right.”