On 17 March 2010, we submitted the Manifesto Club petition against the points-based visa system to 10 Downing Street – with over 10,000 signatures, including artists and writers such as Antony Gormley, Jeremy Deller, Maureen Duffy and Anne Fine.

To mark the occassion, we have published a dossier, Deported, including the most striking cases submitted to us over the past year, of the artists, musicians, dancers, writers and academics who have been shut out of the UK by these suspicious and closed-minded rules.

Download the Manifesto Club dossier: Deported – Artists and Academics Barred from the UK

This is part of the Manifesto Club’s Visiting Artists and Academics campaign