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台籍女醫師面臨強制離境 英國各大媒體爭相報導網友聲援
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1名台灣27歲女子蔣牧淳（Mu-Chun Chiang，中文為音譯）近日成為許多英國媒體的版面，因為她在英國即將因為簽證問題被迫遣返或強制離境回到台灣，因此向英國政府請願，也引起許多網友聲援。
蔣牧淳5到10歲都隨著父母在英國的格拉斯哥生活，後來雖然返台，但2006年時她又以學生身份回到英國就學，之後蔣牧淳取得知名的利物浦大學醫學學士和利物浦熱帶醫學院的碩士，與英國的關係相當密切，目前也在其大學附屬的醫院工作。
但蔣牧淳的「學生簽證」在6月時已經到期，她接著向英國移民署申請「工作簽證」，沒想到卻遭拒發，並且要求在近日離開英國，否則將被強制遣送回到台灣，讓蔣牧淳相當震驚，此事也在英國各大媒體，包含《每日郵報》、《獨立報》等刊登，引發議論。
英國政府表示，因為蔣牧淳在過去的90天內並未達到「存款945英鎊（約新台幣37,800元）」，並且要「每天維持在此數字」、「連續90天」的規定，蔣牧淳才意識到，在90天內的確有幾天戶頭低於該標準，未達到移民署的標準。
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蔣牧淳的好友立刻在網路上發起請願連署，目前已有超過25,000人支持。（翻攝自網路）
蔣牧淳表示，自己還是習慣英國的生活，她也對英國較熟悉，回台灣反而會不太適應，因此她的好友立刻在網路上發起請願連署，目前已有超過25,000人支持蔣牧淳，希望英國政府能夠讓蔣牧淳繼續留在英國生活及工作，移民福利律師的執行長也表示，蔣牧淳是年輕又受過完整訓練的醫師，現在英國國內醫療人力資源缺乏，卻要用這沒用、複雜、不人道的移民系統將它驅離，相當不合理。
Taiwanese female physicians face forced departures. The major media in the UK are competing to report on netizens’ support.
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A 27-year-old woman from Taiwan, Mu-Chun Chiang (Chinese transliteration), has recently become a forum for many British media. She is petitioning to the British government because she is about to be repatriated or forced to leave Taiwan due to visa issues. Also caused many netizens to support.
At the age of 5 to 10, Jiang Muzhen lived with her parents in Glasgow, England. Later, although she returned to Taiwan, she returned to the UK as a student in 2006. After that, she obtained a master's degree in medicine from the University of Liverpool and a master's degree from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. It has a close relationship with the UK and is currently working in a hospital affiliated with its university.
However, Jiang's "student visa" expired in June. She then applied for a "work visa" from the British Immigration Department. She did not expect to be refused and asked to leave the UK in the near future, otherwise she would be forced to return to Taiwan. Jiang Muzhen was shocked. The matter was also published in the major media in the UK, including the Daily Mail and the Independent.
The British government said that because Chiang Kai-shek did not reach the "deposit of 945 pounds (about NT$37,800)" in the past 90 days, and to "maintain this number every day" and "continuously 90 days", Jiang Muzhen realized In the 90 days, there are indeed several days when the account is below the standard and does not meet the standards of the Immigration Department.
Jiang Mujun’s friend immediately launched a petition on the Internet and has more than 25,000 support. (Reflected from the Internet)
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Jiang Mujun’s friend immediately launched a petition on the Internet and has more than 25,000 support. (Reflected from the Internet)
Jiang Muzhen said that she is still used to life in the UK. She is also familiar with the United Kingdom. She will not adapt to Taiwan when she returns to Taiwan. Therefore, her friends immediately launched a petition on the Internet. At present, more than 25,000 people support Chiang Kai-shek and hope that the British government can Let Jiang Muzhen continue to live and work in the UK. The chief executive of immigration welfare lawyers also said that Jiang Muzhen is a young and well-trained physician. Now there is a shortage of medical human resources in the UK, but it is necessary to use this useless, complicated and inhuman immigration system. It is quite unreasonable to drive it away.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...iang-faces-deportation-visa-application-error
NHS doctor faces deportation over visa application error
Dr Mu-Chun Chiang has lived in Britain most of her life and was training to be a GP
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
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Dr Mu-Chun Chiang: ‘To have someone just kick you out is a pretty nasty feeling.’ Photograph: Supplied
An NHS doctor who has lived most of her life in Britain is due to be deported and stopped from becoming a GP after making a small error in her application for a new work visa.
Dr Mu-Chun Chiang said the Home Office’s decision to remove her had left her “shocked and devastated”.
“They seem very keen to get rid of me. To have someone just kick you out is a pretty nasty feeling. I want to stay and train as a GP. I really enjoy working as a doctor and in the NHS.”
The Home Office based its decision to remove Chiang on her making a minor mistake in the paperwork she submitted with her application. Those seeking a tier two visa must be able to prove they have held at least £945 in their bank account for 90 consecutive days up until a month before they submit their application.
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But while Chiang had enough money in her savings account, she submitted statements relating to her current account, the balance of which dipped below £945 for some of the 90-day period.
The Home Office initially refused to consider the evidence about her savings account when she later submitted statements and explained her mistake, because she had not included them in her original application.
Taiwan-born Chiang, a 27-year-old trainee GP in Liverpool, has been given 14 days to leave the UK, despite working and being educated in England and Scotland for 18 years.
She is at risk of expulsion despite the fact that Health Education England, the NHS’s medical training agency, is sponsoring her and paying for the three years of her training to become a family doctor.
The Home Office has refused to grant Chiang a tier two visa from now until 2022 to cover the duration of her GP training.
It has banned her from working, meaning she has had to stop doing shifts in a Liverpool hospital as one of the first “rotations” through different medical specialities as part of her training to be a GP.
Critics claim the Home Office’s treatment of Chiang is inhumane and shortsighted, given that the NHS in England is experiencing a serious and worsening shortage of GPs. It is also alleged that her deportation shows the government’s “hostile environment” approach to immigration has continued, even though Theresa May – its architect – has left office.
The Royal College of GPs criticised the decision as “ludicrous”. It has written to Priti Patel, the home secretary, protesting against Chiang’s deportation and warning patients will suffer if overseas doctors are banned from working in the NHS because of “red tape or minor administrative errors”.
Chiang has been put on “immigration bail”, which means she cannot study or claim benefits. She could be jailed for six months if she does not comply with her deportation, she was warned in a letter received last Friday from the Home Office.
EveryDoctor, which campaigns on issues affecting medics’ working conditions, warned Chiang’s deportation could deter overseas doctors from coming to work in the NHS.
“At a time when the NHS is short of 10,000 doctors, the treatment by the Home Office towards the 81,000 doctors on visas in the UK is frankly unbelievable.
“The NHS is actively recruiting doctors from abroad, and these doctors have uprooted themselves, and often their families too, to offer the UK their hard-earned skills. These doctors are committed to working in the NHS. The treatment these doctors are faced with is appalling,” said Dr Julia Patterson, EveryDoctor’s lead.
Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: “It’s ludicrous that at a time when the NHS workforce is in crisis and the skills and expertise of GPs are so desperately needed, the Home Office is still willing to deport a doctor that this country has already invested in, who has lived here for most of her life and studied medicine here.
“We should be welcoming Dr Chiang to the NHS with open arms, not deporting her.
“Unfortunately, her case is not the first, and we suspect it is just the tip of the iceberg and that there could be many more cases where red tape or minor administrative errors are preventing our trainees and fully qualified GPs from working in the NHS when our patients and our profession are crying out for them”.
Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, the chair of the campaign group Doctors’ Association UK, criticised the handling of Chiang’s case as “ludicrous and nonsensical”. She added: “Telling a young doctor to leave the country within 10 days or else face prosecution over a technicality is inhumane and shows a flagrant disregard for Dr Chiang’s contribution to society and the NHS.”
A spokeswoman for the Home Office, which is under mounting pressure to reverse its decision, said: “We are reconsidering Ms Chiang’s application now that further evidence has been provided.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-leave-country-week-face-DEPORTED-Taiwan.htmlDoctor, 27, who has spent more than half her life in the UK says she has been told to leave the country within a week or face being DEPORTED to Taiwan
Published: 18:37 BST, 1 October 2019 | Updated: 07:29 BST, 2 October 2019
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Mu-Chun Chiang, 27, has lived in the UK for over 13 years but, her application for a new visa was rejected
A junior doctor who has spent more than half her life in the UK says she has been told to leave the country within a week or face being deported to Taiwan.
Mu-Chun Chiang, 27, has lived in the UK for over 13 years but, her application for a new visa was rejected and the Home Office told her to leave the UK or risk up to six months' imprisonment.
She has been in the UK since 2006, when she moved to Cambridge from Taiwan to study, and before that had lived with her parents in Glasgow between 1997 and 2002.
After receiving the letter, Dr Chiang's friend Mina Mesri set up a petition calling for her to be allowed to stay in the UK, which has received over 25,000 signatures in a matter of days.
The 27-year-old, who is now seeking legal advice, said: 'When I went back to Taiwan, it was a different environment and a little bit tricky for me - I was quite young and really wanted to get back to the UK.
'My family is in Taiwan, but I'm more in tune with what's going on in the UK, it feels like I'm at home. I enjoy helping people, always enjoyed biology and science at school, and since pursuing that path have never looked back.'
Dr Chiang has lived in the UK since 2006, when she moved to Cambridge from Taiwan to study, but has now been told to leave the country by the Home Office (pictured)
Mu-Chun Chiang (left), 27, and her friend Mina Mesri (right), who has set up a petition calling for her to be allowed to stay in the UK, which has received over 25,000 signatures in a matter of days
After completing her GCSEs and A-levels in Cambridge, she moved to the University of Liverpool to gain a medical degree and then obtained an MA at The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
She completed a two-year foundation programme at Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucester Royal Hospital, and recently moved back to Liverpool for GP training, while also working shifts at Aintree University Hospital.
But those plans are in tatters because of a misunderstanding over her visa application.
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Miss Chiang had been on a student visa from 2006 until earlier this year, but needed to apply for a working visa to remain.
Her application began in June and included receiving a sponsorship certificate from Health Education England, but the issue that stands to cost her the right to stay did not emerge until August this year.
The Home Office set a threshold to prove she was self-supporting, which was to have at least £945 in a bank account during the 90-day period of her application.
Mu-Chun Chiang (left) as a child playing in the snow in the UK. She has now been asked to leave the UK
While the balance on her current account had fallen below £945, she says she did have more than this amount in her savings account.
However, she only submitted the current account statements, as she was under the impression that the threshold only needed to be met at the end of each month.
The Home Office rejected her application, but she appealed within days with statements proving her savings account did have enough money in it throughout the 90 days.
Miss Chiang said: 'I failed to realise they meant at no point, not even one hour of the day, was my money allowed to drop below the £945. This was a genuine misinterpretation of the rules.'
Despite this, she picked up a letter on September 27 informing her that she was facing deportation within seven days.
Mu-Chun Chiang (pictured as an infant) has lived in the UK since 2006, when she moved to Cambridge from Taiwan to study, and before that had lived with her parents in Glasgow between 1997 and 2002
It was dated 19 September and was delivered on 25 September, but Miss Chiang missed it because she was working shifts in hospital. The Home Office now insists she doesn't face removal.
She said: 'It feels like they are treating me as a criminal. I have had to stop working - I am meant to be on call and my employers are trying to get cover.
'With how the NHS is, I don't know why they won't take into consideration my appeal.'
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Home Office to reverse its decision, attracting support from fellow doctors in the UK and abroad.
Miss Chiang said: 'Never have I really thought of myself as a really valuable asset with the right to stay. But I really enjoy my job, and everybody knows there is a shortage of GPs.
'These sorts of rules from the Home Office need to be revisited - I am meeting a lawyer on Monday to see what my options are, but a lot of doctors will just give up and go home.'
Satbir Singh, chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants said: 'At a time when our NHS is under immense strain and crying out for more doctors, kicking out a young doctor trained to work in the NHS just defies basic common sense.'
'Our immigration system is dysfunctional, complicated and inhumane.
'That someone can be threatened with detention and removal because of a small technical mistake in a visa application highlights the urgent need for the system to be rebuilt from ground up so that people who move here are treated fairly and with humanity.'
In a statement, a Home Office spokesman said: 'All visa applications are considered on their individual merits and in line with the immigration rules.
'Ms Chiang did not provide the evidence required to be granted a visa but we are in contact with her and are discussing the options available to her.'
台籍女醫師面臨強制離境 英國各大媒體爭相報導網友聲援
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1名台灣27歲女子蔣牧淳（Mu-Chun Chiang，中文為音譯）近日成為許多英國媒體的版面，因為她在英國即將因為簽證問題被迫遣返或強制離境回到台灣，因此向英國政府請願，也引起許多網友聲援。
蔣牧淳5到10歲都隨著父母在英國的格拉斯哥生活，後來雖然返台，但2006年時她又以學生身份回到英國就學，之後蔣牧淳取得知名的利物浦大學醫學學士和利物浦熱帶醫學院的碩士，與英國的關係相當密切，目前也在其大學附屬的醫院工作。
但蔣牧淳的「學生簽證」在6月時已經到期，她接著向英國移民署申請「工作簽證」，沒想到卻遭拒發，並且要求在近日離開英國，否則將被強制遣送回到台灣，讓蔣牧淳相當震驚，此事也在英國各大媒體，包含《每日郵報》、《獨立報》等刊登，引發議論。
英國政府表示，因為蔣牧淳在過去的90天內並未達到「存款945英鎊（約新台幣37,800元）」，並且要「每天維持在此數字」、「連續90天」的規定，蔣牧淳才意識到，在90天內的確有幾天戶頭低於該標準，未達到移民署的標準。
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蔣牧淳的好友立刻在網路上發起請願連署，目前已有超過25,000人支持。（翻攝自網路）
蔣牧淳表示，自己還是習慣英國的生活，她也對英國較熟悉，回台灣反而會不太適應，因此她的好友立刻在網路上發起請願連署，目前已有超過25,000人支持蔣牧淳，希望英國政府能夠讓蔣牧淳繼續留在英國生活及工作，移民福利律師的執行長也表示，蔣牧淳是年輕又受過完整訓練的醫師，現在英國國內醫療人力資源缺乏，卻要用這沒用、複雜、不人道的移民系統將它驅離，相當不合理。
Taiwanese female physicians face forced departures. The major media in the UK are competing to report on netizens’ support.
[Mirror Weekly Mirror Media]
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October 2, 2019, 12:50 PM
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A 27-year-old woman from Taiwan, Mu-Chun Chiang (Chinese transliteration), has recently become a forum for many British media. She is petitioning to the British government because she is about to be repatriated or forced to leave Taiwan due to visa issues. Also caused many netizens to support.
At the age of 5 to 10, Jiang Muzhen lived with her parents in Glasgow, England. Later, although she returned to Taiwan, she returned to the UK as a student in 2006. After that, she obtained a master's degree in medicine from the University of Liverpool and a master's degree from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. It has a close relationship with the UK and is currently working in a hospital affiliated with its university.
However, Jiang's "student visa" expired in June. She then applied for a "work visa" from the British Immigration Department. She did not expect to be refused and asked to leave the UK in the near future, otherwise she would be forced to return to Taiwan. Jiang Muzhen was shocked. The matter was also published in the major media in the UK, including the Daily Mail and the Independent.
The British government said that because Chiang Kai-shek did not reach the "deposit of 945 pounds (about NT$37,800)" in the past 90 days, and to "maintain this number every day" and "continuously 90 days", Jiang Muzhen realized In the 90 days, there are indeed several days when the account is below the standard and does not meet the standards of the Immigration Department.
Jiang Mujun’s friend immediately launched a petition on the Internet and has more than 25,000 support. (Reflected from the Internet)
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Jiang Mujun’s friend immediately launched a petition on the Internet and has more than 25,000 support. (Reflected from the Internet)
Jiang Muzhen said that she is still used to life in the UK. She is also familiar with the United Kingdom. She will not adapt to Taiwan when she returns to Taiwan. Therefore, her friends immediately launched a petition on the Internet. At present, more than 25,000 people support Chiang Kai-shek and hope that the British government can Let Jiang Muzhen continue to live and work in the UK. The chief executive of immigration welfare lawyers also said that Jiang Muzhen is a young and well-trained physician. Now there is a shortage of medical human resources in the UK, but it is necessary to use this useless, complicated and inhuman immigration system. It is quite unreasonable to drive it away.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...iang-faces-deportation-visa-application-error
NHS doctor faces deportation over visa application error
Dr Mu-Chun Chiang has lived in Britain most of her life and was training to be a GP
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
Wed 2 Oct 2019 14.10 BST Last modified on Wed 2 Oct 2019 14.30 BST
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Dr Mu-Chun Chiang: ‘To have someone just kick you out is a pretty nasty feeling.’ Photograph: Supplied
An NHS doctor who has lived most of her life in Britain is due to be deported and stopped from becoming a GP after making a small error in her application for a new work visa.
Dr Mu-Chun Chiang said the Home Office’s decision to remove her had left her “shocked and devastated”.
“They seem very keen to get rid of me. To have someone just kick you out is a pretty nasty feeling. I want to stay and train as a GP. I really enjoy working as a doctor and in the NHS.”
The Home Office based its decision to remove Chiang on her making a minor mistake in the paperwork she submitted with her application. Those seeking a tier two visa must be able to prove they have held at least £945 in their bank account for 90 consecutive days up until a month before they submit their application.
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But while Chiang had enough money in her savings account, she submitted statements relating to her current account, the balance of which dipped below £945 for some of the 90-day period.
The Home Office initially refused to consider the evidence about her savings account when she later submitted statements and explained her mistake, because she had not included them in her original application.
Taiwan-born Chiang, a 27-year-old trainee GP in Liverpool, has been given 14 days to leave the UK, despite working and being educated in England and Scotland for 18 years.
She is at risk of expulsion despite the fact that Health Education England, the NHS’s medical training agency, is sponsoring her and paying for the three years of her training to become a family doctor.
The Home Office has refused to grant Chiang a tier two visa from now until 2022 to cover the duration of her GP training.
It has banned her from working, meaning she has had to stop doing shifts in a Liverpool hospital as one of the first “rotations” through different medical specialities as part of her training to be a GP.
Critics claim the Home Office’s treatment of Chiang is inhumane and shortsighted, given that the NHS in England is experiencing a serious and worsening shortage of GPs. It is also alleged that her deportation shows the government’s “hostile environment” approach to immigration has continued, even though Theresa May – its architect – has left office.
The Royal College of GPs criticised the decision as “ludicrous”. It has written to Priti Patel, the home secretary, protesting against Chiang’s deportation and warning patients will suffer if overseas doctors are banned from working in the NHS because of “red tape or minor administrative errors”.
Chiang has been put on “immigration bail”, which means she cannot study or claim benefits. She could be jailed for six months if she does not comply with her deportation, she was warned in a letter received last Friday from the Home Office.
EveryDoctor, which campaigns on issues affecting medics’ working conditions, warned Chiang’s deportation could deter overseas doctors from coming to work in the NHS.
“At a time when the NHS is short of 10,000 doctors, the treatment by the Home Office towards the 81,000 doctors on visas in the UK is frankly unbelievable.
“The NHS is actively recruiting doctors from abroad, and these doctors have uprooted themselves, and often their families too, to offer the UK their hard-earned skills. These doctors are committed to working in the NHS. The treatment these doctors are faced with is appalling,” said Dr Julia Patterson, EveryDoctor’s lead.
Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: “It’s ludicrous that at a time when the NHS workforce is in crisis and the skills and expertise of GPs are so desperately needed, the Home Office is still willing to deport a doctor that this country has already invested in, who has lived here for most of her life and studied medicine here.
“We should be welcoming Dr Chiang to the NHS with open arms, not deporting her.
“Unfortunately, her case is not the first, and we suspect it is just the tip of the iceberg and that there could be many more cases where red tape or minor administrative errors are preventing our trainees and fully qualified GPs from working in the NHS when our patients and our profession are crying out for them”.
Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, the chair of the campaign group Doctors’ Association UK, criticised the handling of Chiang’s case as “ludicrous and nonsensical”. She added: “Telling a young doctor to leave the country within 10 days or else face prosecution over a technicality is inhumane and shows a flagrant disregard for Dr Chiang’s contribution to society and the NHS.”
A spokeswoman for the Home Office, which is under mounting pressure to reverse its decision, said: “We are reconsidering Ms Chiang’s application now that further evidence has been provided.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-leave-country-week-face-DEPORTED-Taiwan.htmlDoctor, 27, who has spent more than half her life in the UK says she has been told to leave the country within a week or face being DEPORTED to Taiwan
- Mu-Chun Chiang seeking legal advice after being sent letter by the Home Office
- She has lived in the UK since 2006 when she moved to Cambridge from Taiwan
- Before that she had lived with her parents in Glasgow between 1997 and 2002
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Published: 18:37 BST, 1 October 2019 | Updated: 07:29 BST, 2 October 2019
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Mu-Chun Chiang, 27, has lived in the UK for over 13 years but, her application for a new visa was rejected
A junior doctor who has spent more than half her life in the UK says she has been told to leave the country within a week or face being deported to Taiwan.
Mu-Chun Chiang, 27, has lived in the UK for over 13 years but, her application for a new visa was rejected and the Home Office told her to leave the UK or risk up to six months' imprisonment.
She has been in the UK since 2006, when she moved to Cambridge from Taiwan to study, and before that had lived with her parents in Glasgow between 1997 and 2002.
After receiving the letter, Dr Chiang's friend Mina Mesri set up a petition calling for her to be allowed to stay in the UK, which has received over 25,000 signatures in a matter of days.
The 27-year-old, who is now seeking legal advice, said: 'When I went back to Taiwan, it was a different environment and a little bit tricky for me - I was quite young and really wanted to get back to the UK.
'My family is in Taiwan, but I'm more in tune with what's going on in the UK, it feels like I'm at home. I enjoy helping people, always enjoyed biology and science at school, and since pursuing that path have never looked back.'
Dr Chiang has lived in the UK since 2006, when she moved to Cambridge from Taiwan to study, but has now been told to leave the country by the Home Office (pictured)
Mu-Chun Chiang (left), 27, and her friend Mina Mesri (right), who has set up a petition calling for her to be allowed to stay in the UK, which has received over 25,000 signatures in a matter of days
After completing her GCSEs and A-levels in Cambridge, she moved to the University of Liverpool to gain a medical degree and then obtained an MA at The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
She completed a two-year foundation programme at Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucester Royal Hospital, and recently moved back to Liverpool for GP training, while also working shifts at Aintree University Hospital.
But those plans are in tatters because of a misunderstanding over her visa application.
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Miss Chiang had been on a student visa from 2006 until earlier this year, but needed to apply for a working visa to remain.
Her application began in June and included receiving a sponsorship certificate from Health Education England, but the issue that stands to cost her the right to stay did not emerge until August this year.
The Home Office set a threshold to prove she was self-supporting, which was to have at least £945 in a bank account during the 90-day period of her application.
Mu-Chun Chiang (left) as a child playing in the snow in the UK. She has now been asked to leave the UK
While the balance on her current account had fallen below £945, she says she did have more than this amount in her savings account.
However, she only submitted the current account statements, as she was under the impression that the threshold only needed to be met at the end of each month.
The Home Office rejected her application, but she appealed within days with statements proving her savings account did have enough money in it throughout the 90 days.
Miss Chiang said: 'I failed to realise they meant at no point, not even one hour of the day, was my money allowed to drop below the £945. This was a genuine misinterpretation of the rules.'
Despite this, she picked up a letter on September 27 informing her that she was facing deportation within seven days.
Mu-Chun Chiang (pictured as an infant) has lived in the UK since 2006, when she moved to Cambridge from Taiwan to study, and before that had lived with her parents in Glasgow between 1997 and 2002
It was dated 19 September and was delivered on 25 September, but Miss Chiang missed it because she was working shifts in hospital. The Home Office now insists she doesn't face removal.
She said: 'It feels like they are treating me as a criminal. I have had to stop working - I am meant to be on call and my employers are trying to get cover.
'With how the NHS is, I don't know why they won't take into consideration my appeal.'
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Home Office to reverse its decision, attracting support from fellow doctors in the UK and abroad.
Miss Chiang said: 'Never have I really thought of myself as a really valuable asset with the right to stay. But I really enjoy my job, and everybody knows there is a shortage of GPs.
'These sorts of rules from the Home Office need to be revisited - I am meeting a lawyer on Monday to see what my options are, but a lot of doctors will just give up and go home.'
Satbir Singh, chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants said: 'At a time when our NHS is under immense strain and crying out for more doctors, kicking out a young doctor trained to work in the NHS just defies basic common sense.'
'Our immigration system is dysfunctional, complicated and inhumane.
'That someone can be threatened with detention and removal because of a small technical mistake in a visa application highlights the urgent need for the system to be rebuilt from ground up so that people who move here are treated fairly and with humanity.'
In a statement, a Home Office spokesman said: 'All visa applications are considered on their individual merits and in line with the immigration rules.
'Ms Chiang did not provide the evidence required to be granted a visa but we are in contact with her and are discussing the options available to her.'
