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Despite the fact that bumi Thomas had lived almost all her life in Britain, she was told in a chilling echo of the windrush last year, that she is an illegal immigrant.
She's now faced with being sent to Africa, even though her work, her family and social life are all in Britain.
The June 1983 born fast rising singer Bumi was born in Glasgow by African parents who came to Britain in the early 1970s.
Changes to the British nationality act in January 1983 removed the automatic right to citizenship of children born in United Kingdom from former colonies.
The singer's parents were not aware that they should have registered her the act. Her plight is harder to bear because her elder sister Kemi, with whom she lives in East London with, has always been a British citizen because she was born before the changes to the act.
The singer believes she is a victim of the home office becoming over-zealous after then home secretary Theresa May introduced a "hostile environment" towards illegal immigrants in 2012.
The policy resulted in the Windrush scandal, which saw dozens of long standing British citizens deported because they lacked papers proving their right to be in the country.
"I had a national insurance number , I have my birth certificate, I had got a driving license, a bank account, I went to college. At no point then was I doing anything incorrectly. I believe I am British" She said.
Although the jazz rising singer, Bumi was born in Glasgow Scotland but had lived with her father in Nigeria between the ages 3 and 18 and this made her believed she had dual British Nigerian nationality when she returned to Britain.
When she was 25, she applied for a UK passport but she was refused.
She was granted temporary discretionary leave to remain and told she could apply for permanent residency but 2 weeks later, she got a letter stating that her application had been unsuccessful and that she had to leave within 14 days or appeal or face detention and deportation without notice.
The said letter stated that her right to remain had been granted only because she had been in a long term relationship with a British citizen.
Her right was later withdrawn when she told the home officer that the relationship had ended.
She has chosen to appeal on Human Rights ground and her case against been taken up by the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Roberts who intend to bring up her case with a home officer minister.
Her case could take up to 8 months to reaches it's conclusion.
Her US performing debut at the Ford Theatre in Los Angeles is now in doubt.
"Fighting my case so far has cost me approximately £7,000 in legal fee" She said.
"All immigration applications are considered on their individual merits" said the home office.
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