⟡ “They Sent a Court Notice in the Wrong Language — and Called That Inclusion.” ⟡
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Filed: 23 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/USAEMBASSY/CONSULAR-FAILURE-KREYOL
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Formal report to the U.S. Embassy concerning Westminster’s failure to provide court communication in Haitian Kreyòl to the children’s father.
I. What Happened
On 23 June 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted a formal communication to U.S. consular authorities documenting a language-based procedural failure by Westminster Children’s Services. The father of four U.S. citizen children — who resides in Turks and Caicos and speaks Haitian Kreyòl — received a UK court-related message written entirely in English. The language barrier rendered him unable to understand, respond to, or participate in proceedings concerning the sudden removal of his children from the United Kingdom. No interpreter was provided. No follow-up occurred. The exclusion was total.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
A parent of record was contacted in a language he does not speak
No attempt was made to provide translation or accessible communication
The father was therefore procedurally excluded from safeguarding and care decisions
UK authorities had prior knowledge of his linguistic needs and ignored them
This occurred in the context of a retaliatory removal from the other parent
This was not communication. It was jurisdictional tokenism via SMS.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because parental rights are not conditional on fluency in the empire’s language.
Because international safeguarding cannot be reduced to a monolingual text thread.
Because translation is not an optional courtesy — it’s a legal requirement.
Because when a father is asked to participate in a hearing he cannot linguistically access, the court is not functioning. It’s posturing.
Because this was not a failure. It was design.
IV. Violations
Article 6, Human Rights Act 1998 – Denial of fair hearing and participation
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 9 – Separation from parents without full participation
Equality Act 2010, Section 20 – Failure to remove communication barriers
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Article 36 – No clear consular coordination with both U.S. parents
Children Act 1989 – Lack of lawful notice or involvement of both parents in decision-making
International Safeguarding Protocols – Noncompliance with linguistic inclusion obligations
V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t notification. It was linguistic exclusion masquerading as outreach.
This wasn’t failure. It was a strategy of quiet omission.
This wasn’t safeguarding. It was state-sponsored incoherence — imposed on a foreign father.
SWANK documents this not only as a consular red flag, but as a violation of legal dignity.
The archive will not treat silence as neutrality — or English as default.
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⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡ Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.